Procurement Operations Business Partner, Technology

Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the purchasing process for technology spend: business applications, SaaS tools, cloud and infrastructure services, and engineering and developer tools.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a high volume of purchase requests, renewals, and license changes each month across the organization.
• Serve as the primary procurement partner for the teams buying in your categories.
• Review every purchase request in your portfolio for accuracy and completeness.
• Determine what else each request requires before it can move.
• Partner with Security to run a vendor security review on every new tool and at every renewal.
• Launch and track contract review with Legal.
• Structure purchase orders to match how the vendor bills and how Accounting needs to see the spend.
• Track license counts and renewal dates across your portfolio.

Financial completeness and accuracy:

• Code every purchase order correctly at creation.
• Work the hard cases with Accounting.
• Own the open purchase order book.
• Serve as the first line reviewer for month-end accruals on your portfolio.
• Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds and PO mismatches.

Be the front door:

• Be visible and responsive in your teams' Slack channels and office hours.
• Apply purchasing policy consistently and explain the why.
• Translate procurement, legal, security, and finance requirements into plain language.
• Keep a regular check in with your highest volume teams.

Continuous improvement:

• Maintain the playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures for your portfolio.
• Identify manual steps, repeat questions, and failure points and fix them.

Minimum qualifications:

• Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end.
• Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing.
• Experience buying and managing software or SaaS at scale.
• Experience owning the tool and vendor lifecycle end to end.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations.
• Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process.
• Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.

The annual compensation range for this role is $190,000-$230,000 USD.