Buyer

Role Description

The Finance team at Clover Health is a group of strategic partners providing financial and operational insights that drive informed decision-making and efficient capital allocation. Guided by our core values of excellence, accountability, and collaboration, we provide actionable recommendations to improve health outcomes and reduce costs while ensuring financial integrity and innovation.

Clover is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Buyer to join our Procurement team. This role is ideal for an early-career procurement professional looking to build expertise in procurement, supplier management, contract administration, sourcing, and commercial negotiations. The Buyer will partner with internal stakeholders, suppliers, Legal, Finance, Compliance, and business teams to support purchasing activities, contract renewals, vendor relationships, and procurement operations. This position offers hands-on exposure to contract management, supplier negotiations, and procurement best practices, with opportunities to develop expertise in Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) through Gatekeeper and other procurement applications.

As a Buyer, you will:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and serve as a primary point of contact for vendor inquiries, renewals, and procurement requests.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Legal to support procurement initiatives and business needs.
• Manage contract renewals and assist with sourcing, supplier selection, and procurement activities.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, and other commercial terms for vendor contracts.
• Conduct contract review activities, including reviewing commercial terms, identifying risks, and assisting with basic contract redlining in accordance with Procurement and Legal contracting standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional workstream approvers to facilitate contract review, approval, and execution processes.
• Maintain supplier, contract, and procurement records within the contract lifecycle management system.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, approval requirements, signatory and contracting processes.
• Support spend analysis, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives across the procurement function.

Success in this role looks like:

• Strong stakeholder management and customer-service orientation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple departments and levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn procurement, contract management, and negotiation skills.
• Sound judgment when reviewing commercial terms and identifying issues requiring escalation to Procurement, Legal, Security, Compliance, Privacy, etc.
• Comfortable leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity, contract review processes, and procurement outcomes while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Strong follow-through and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to facilitate the end-to-end contracting process, including intake, supplier engagement, contract review, negotiation support, approval routing, and execution.
• Effective communicator who can proactively manage stakeholders, remove obstacles, and keep projects moving toward completion while ensuring compliance with organizational policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 1–3 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, sourcing, vendor management, contract administration, or a related business function.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word & Excel.

Requirements

• Exposure to supplier negotiations, contract administration, sourcing, or procurement operations.
• Experience working with procurement, ERP, or contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems.
• Familiarity with Gatekeeper or similar CLM/procurement platforms.
• Experience or interest in leveraging AI-powered tools to support contract reviews, clause analysis, supplier research, spend analysis, and workflow efficiency.
• Desire to develop expertise in contract management, commercial negotiations, and strategic sourcing.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity opportunities.
• Performance-based bonus program, 401k matching, and regular compensation reviews.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• No-Meeting Fridays, monthly company holidays, access to mental health resources, and a generous flexible time-off policy.
• Remote-first culture that supports collaboration and flexibility.
• Learning programs, mentorship, professional development funding, and regular performance feedback and reviews.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offering discounted equity opportunities.
• Reimbursement for office setup expenses.
• Monthly cell phone & internet stipend.
• Paid parental leave for all new parents.
• And much more!