Job Description
About the Role
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Mercor is building realistic, high-fidelity simulated environments to evaluate and train AI models on real-world procurement workflows for a leading spend-management technology company. We're looking for senior procurement and vendor-management professionals to author and validate tasks that mirror how procurement teams actually vet new vendors and review contract renewals.
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Key Responsibilities
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Review simulated recent-vendor intake requests, benchmarking price and contract terms against realistic company reference data
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Consolidate multi-lens reviews (finance, legal, security, IT) into a well-reasoned final approval recommendation
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Author step-level rubrics and golden responses that capture how an experienced procurement lead would judge a request or renewal
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Audit simulated company environments for realism and unintended contradictions before tasks open
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Ideal Qualifications
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8+ years of professional experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management, with hands‐on experience running real vendor requests and renewals
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Sourced from mature procurement functions at companies with formal vendor‐review processes
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Strong written communication skills; comfortable producing structured, rubric‐style feedback
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Nice to Have
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Experience with modern spend‐management or e‐procurement platforms
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Prior task‐writing, rubric‐authoring, or AI‐training data experience
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📌 Procurement Expert - Vendor Management (New South Wales)
🏢 Mercor
📍 New South Wales