Verified Mercor opportunity
About the Role — 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. — Key Responsibilities • Review simulated new-vendor intake requests, benchmarking price and contract terms against realistic company reference data • Consolidate multi-lens reviews (finance, legal, security, IT) into a well-reasoned final approval recommendation • Author step-level rubrics and golden responses that capture how an experienced procurement lead would judge a request or renewal • Audit simulated company environments for realism and unintended contradictions before tasks open — Ideal Qualifications • 8+ years of professional experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management, with hands-on experience running real vendor requests and renewals • Sourced from mature procurement functions at companies with formal vendor-review processes • Strong written communication skills; comfortable producing structured, rubric-style feedback — Nice to Have • Experience with modern spend-management or e-procurement platforms • Prior task-writing, rubric-authoring, or AI-training data experience