Job Description
What you'll do
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in procurement. As a Procurement & Vendor Expert, you'll build long-horizon sourcing tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls.
Expect to build scenarios across:
- Sourcing and diligence: RFP responses scored against a rubric, vendor due diligence with required fields and known risk flags
- Contracting: supplier contract reviews that identify a seeded list of issues, SOW negotiations resolving to defined commercial outcomes
- Vendor management: scorecards with defined metrics and calculated totals, renewal analyses with a ground-truth recommendation
These scenarios will be challenging and take long sessions of focus.
Who we're looking for
- 3+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management
- Expertise in one or more of the following: vendor due diligence, SOW negotiation and structuring, SaaS pricing models, supplier security review, procurement-tool administration (Coupa, Ariba, Zip)
- Comfortable reading and producing procurement artifacts: RFPs, vendor scorecards, contract summaries, negotiation plans
- Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics
- Located in the United States or Canada
Compensation
$75–$100/hr depending on domain depth and prior experience. Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.
About Mercor
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