Specialist / Senior Procurement Specialist

Your Impact at LILA

We are looking for a Procurement Specialist to run the buying desk for our fast-paced, AI-driven research and development organization at Lila Sciences.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Procurement, this is a hands-on role for someone who wants to own throughput. You will keep the ordering process real time and efficient, and you will own vendor onboarding for the suppliers behind those orders.

This is the first dedicated buying desk at Lila. You will define how it runs rather than inherit it, working closely with scientists, lab managers and technical teams across the organization.

What You'll Be Building

• 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 r