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Contractor, P2P Specialist

Cambridge, MAOnsiteContractPosted 23 days ago

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Required skills

  • Coupa
  • P2P
  • procure-to-pay
  • configuration
  • go-live
  • user acceptance testing
  • data migration
  • validation
  • supplier master
  • purchase orders

Nice to have

  • Ariba
  • Zip
  • Oracle P2P
  • Source-to-Pay
  • CLM
  • Ironclad

Role summary

Lila Sciences is seeking a Contractor, P2P Specialist for a six-month contract to manage the implementation and go-live of their new Coupa procure-to-pay platform. Responsibilities include configuration, data migration, user acceptance testing, and post-go-live issue triage. The role requires hands-on experience with P2P platforms, particularly Coupa, and knowledge of three-way match, approval hierarchies, and data validation. Experience in life sciences environments and ERP integration is a plus.

Your Impact at LILA

Lila is replacing its procure-to-pay platform. Coupa has been selected, an implementation partner is engaged, and go-live is targeted for Q1 2027 on a fifteen-week build.

As the P2P Specialist you own configuration through go-live. After launch you triage issue tickets, turn recurring problems into configuration or training fixes, and produce a documented handover package for the internal owners.

This is a six-month contract based at our OCP office in Cambridge, MA, working day to day with the systems integrator and partnering with Finance, Legal, and the scientists who depend on the system.

What You'll Be Building

  • Coordinate and run configuration workshops with stakeholders alongside the systems integrator
  • Execute and document configuration workstreams: approval matrices, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out, supplier onboarding
  • Build and load catalog and punch-out content, starting with the highest-volume suppliers
  • Configure the approval hierarchy against the approved signing matrix and test it thoroughly before go-live
  • Run data migration and validation across the supplier master, open commitments, and historical purchase orders
  • Own user acceptance testing: write the scripts, run the sessions, log defects, drive them to closure
  • Hold dual-system reconciliation through the parallel run so no order is duplicated or dropped
  • Manage the systems integrator day to day and escalate risks internally
  • Triage post-go-live issues and hand over complete documentation to trained internal owners

    • What You'll Need to Succeed

  • Hands-on configuration experience on a modern P2P or source-to-pay platform, Coupa strongly preferred, deep Ariba, Zip, or Oracle experience considered
  • At least one full implementation or major module go-live where you personally held configuration or UAT
  • Working knowledge of three-way match, tolerance thresholds, and approval hierarchy design
  • Catalog and punch-out enablement, and supplier network onboarding
  • Data migration and validation experience: you can reconcile a supplier master and explain every variance
  • Temperament for a fast, visible project where the end users are scientists with experiments waiting

    • Bonus Points For

  • Ironclad or similar CLM experience
  • Life sciences or research environment, including lab consumables and capital equipment buying patterns
  • ERP integration exposure: NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar
  • Experience running hypercare alongside a systems integrator
  • Having decommissioned a legacy platform, not just stood up a new one

    • About LILA

    Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

    LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

    Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

    We’re All In

    Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

    Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.

    A Note to Agencies

    Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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