Procurement Strategic Sourcing AI Task Expert

About OpenTrain

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Creating an OpenTrain account is free, and candidates can apply to relevant projects in minutes. As an OpenTrain contractor, you will contribute specialized procurement expertise to an AI training portfolio.

About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Expert contributors create examples, review model outputs, evaluate reasoning, and identify errors so AI systems can perform more reliably in real-world settings.

This role applies that process to enterprise procurement. Your judgment will help produce and assess examples involving sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, contracts, commercial decisions, and cross-functional business communication.

The Role

OpenTrain is seeking an experienced procurement and strategic sourcing expert to create and evaluate high-difficulty tasks for frontier AI agents. The work covers complex enterprise environments involving ERP systems, spend analytics databases, vendor portals, contract drafts, negotiation briefs, email, and cross-functional communications.

You will produce gold-standard examples that test category strategy, supplier negotiations, contract management, commercial decision-making, and technical accuracy. You will also evaluate both the final procurement artifacts and the strategic reasoning behind them.

• Engagement: 9-week individual contractor engagement
• Workload: 20+ hours per week
• Work arrangement: Remote and worldwide
• Language: English
• Employment type: Contractor, part-time

What You'll Do

You will review, calibrate, and critique contributor outputs while verifying that tasks are feasible and practically realistic using provided tools and datasets. The work includes identifying edge cases and refining tasks through revision cycles.

Your evaluations should reflect the standards of real enterprise procurement work, including commercial judgment, strategic reasoning, technical accuracy, and operational feasibility.

• Create complex procurement and strategic sourcing AI evaluation tasks
• Develop gold-standard examples based on realistic enterprise scenarios
• Review, calibrate, and critique contributor outputs
• Evaluate procurement artifacts and the reasoning used to produce them
• Verify feasibility and practical realism with provided tools and datasets
• Identify edge cases and refine tasks through revision cycles
• Create realistic AI evaluation tasks and quality rubrics

Requirements

Applicants must bring substantial hands-on procurement experience and be able to translate complex business requirements into realistic procurement scenarios. The listing is marked as entry level in the source information, but the stated qualification standard requires at least eight years of relevant experience.

A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in any field is required. Professional procurement credentials and prior AI evaluation experience are helpful but not required.

• At least 8 years of hands-on experience in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, or supply chain management
• Deep expertise in category strategy and complex supplier negotiations
• Strong knowledge of contract lifecycles, strategic sourcing plans, TCO models, complex RFXs, contract risk assessments, and negotiation playbooks
• Advanced commercial data analysis skills
• Supply chain risk assessment experience
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into realistic procurement scenarios
• Ability to create complex AI evaluation tasks and quality rubrics
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in any field
• CPSM, CIPS, or an equivalent professional procurement certification strongly preferred
• Experience with corporate scenarios, AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, quality assurance, or related analytical work is helpful

Why This Work Matters

Every major AI system depends on carefully prepared and reviewed human examples. By applying practical procurement judgment to difficult enterprise scenarios, you will help shape how frontier AI agents understand commercial decisions, sourcing constraints, supplier risk, and contract-related work.

The engagement offers a way to contribute specialized expertise to a fast-growing AI training field while creating work that reflects real procurement challenges.

• Apply specialist procurement knowledge to cutting-edge AI development
• Work with realistic enterprise documents, systems, and communications
• Help improve the reliability and practical usefulness of frontier AI agents
• Build experience in AI evaluation and data-labeling work

How to Apply

Create a free OpenTrain account to build your profile, discover AI training opportunities, and apply in minutes. OpenTrain helps contributors develop a unified portfolio they control as they grow their AI training careers.

Review the requirements carefully and highlight your procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial analysis, supply chain risk, and evaluation experience when applying.

• Apply through OpenTrain for consideration
• Be prepared to demonstrate relevant procurement expertise
• Show experience with sourcing strategy, negotiations, contracts, and commercial analysis
• Highlight any experience creating scenarios, rubrics, or AI evaluation tasks