Remote Buyer

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.
● 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.

You should get in touch if:

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

Preferred:
● 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 Overview :

• Financial Well-Being : Our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent begins with a competitive base salary and equity opportunities. Additionally, we offer a performance-based bonus program, 401k matching, and regular compensation reviews to recognize and reward exceptional contributions.
• Physical Well-Being : We prioritize the health and well-being of our employees and their families by providing comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Your health matters to us, and we invest in ensuring you have access to quality healthcare.
• Mental Well-Being : We understand the importance of mental health in fostering productivity and maintaining work-life balance. To support this, we offer initiatives such as No-Meeting Fridays, monthly company holidays, access to mental health resources, and a generous flexible time-off policy. Additionally, we embrace a remote-first culture that supports collaboration and flexibility, allowing our team members to thrive from any location.
• Professional Development : Developing internal talent is a priority for Clover. We offer learning programs, mentorship, professional development funding, and regular performance feedback and reviews.

Additional Perks:

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offering discounted equity opportunities
• Reimbursement for office setup expenses
• Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
• Remote-first culture, enabling collaboration with global teams
• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• And much more!

About Clover: We are reinventing health insurance by combining the power of data with human empathy to keep our members healthier. We believe the healthcare system is broken, so we’ve created custom software and analytics to empower our clinical staff to intervene and provide personalized care to the people who need it most.

We always put our members first, and our success as a team is measured by the quality of life of the people we serve. Those who work at Clover are passionate and mission-driven individuals with diverse areas of expertise, working together to solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare.

From Clover’s inception, Diversity & Inclusion have always been key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, perspectives, opinions, and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people’s lives. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employee’s points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

#LI-REMOTE

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company.

Final pay is based on several factors including but not limited to internal equity, market data, and the applicant’s education, work experience, certifications, etc.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is:

$63,800—$83,000 USD

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