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Specialist / Senior Procurement Specialist

Lila Sciences· Corporate Development
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Cambridge, MA$68k - $117.3kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Procurement Specialist to run the buying desk for an AI-driven R&D organization, owning throughput, vendor onboarding, and end-to-end requisition-to-purchase processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own requisition-to-purchase-order execution end to end: review, clarify, place, confirm, close
  • Serve as the primary procurement partner for assigned research and operating teams
  • Sequence the daily queue on impact, not on who applied the most pressure
  • Hold order accuracy: correct coding, approval path, sound terms, honest lead times
  • Grow catalog and punch-out coverage so routine buying becomes self-service
  • Own supplier onboarding and offboarding, and keep the vendor master clean and current
  • Resolve supplier delivery, quality and pricing issues before they reach the requester
  • Partner with FP&A on budget checks, project coding and month-end accruals

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Life Sciences or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Three or more years of procurement, purchasing or procurement operations experience, ideally supporting research organizations
  • Experience with a major procurement platform such as Coupa, Ariba or Jaggaer (Coupa strongly preferred)
  • Hands-on supplier onboarding experience: qualification, screening, compliance documentation, vendor master management
  • Proven ability to sequence a queue that arrives already overloaded, where most requests are marked urgent
  • Accuracy under volume, and a service instinct paired with the judgement to refuse non-compliant orders
  • Ability to travel up to 10%

Skills

Required:Requisition-to-purchase-order executionVendor onboarding

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits: medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; subsidized lunch program
  • International benefits tailored to region; USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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