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Coupa has been selected, an implementation partner is engaged, and go-live is targeted for Q1 2027 on a fifteen-week build.\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Be Building\nCoordinate and run configuration workshops with stakeholders alongside the systems integrator\nExecute and document configuration workstreams: approval matrices, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out, supplier onboarding\nBuild and load catalog and punch-out content, starting with the highest-volume suppliers\nConfigure the approval hierarchy against the approved signing matrix and test it thoroughly before go-live\nRun data migration and validation across the supplier master, open commitments, and historical purchase orders\nOwn user acceptance testing: write the scripts, run the sessions, log defects, drive them to closure\nHold dual-system reconciliation through the parallel run so no order is duplicated or dropped\nManage the systems integrator day to day and escalate risks internally\nTriage post-go-live issues and hand over complete documentation to trained internal owners\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nHands-on configuration experience on a modern P2P or source-to-pay platform, Coupa strongly preferred, deep Ariba, Zip, or Oracle experience considered\nAt least one full implementation or major module go-live where you personally held configuration or UAT\nWorking knowledge of three-way match, tolerance thresholds, and approval hierarchy design\nCatalog and punch-out enablement, and supplier network onboarding\nData migration and validation experience: you can reconcile a supplier master and explain every variance\nTemperament for a fast, visible project where the end users are scientists with experiments waiting\nBonus Points For\nIronclad or similar CLM experience\nLife sciences or research environment, including lab consumables and capital equipment buying patterns\nERP integration exposure: NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar\nExperience running hypercare alongside a systems integrator\nHaving decommissioned a legacy platform, not just stood up a new one\nAbout LILA\nLila 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.\nLILA 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.\nGuided 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.\nWe’re All In\nLila 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.\nInformation you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nA Note to Agencies\nLila 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. 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