Procurement Operations Business Partner - Workplace, Security and People

About the role

Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We sit inside Finance Operations and own the path from "I need to buy something" to a signed agreement, an accurate purchase order, and clean spend data at month end. We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own that path for the teams that keep Anthropic's offices, people, and physical spaces running.

You will be the person who makes all of it feel simple to the teams who depend on it and reliable to the Finance stakeholders behind it. This is a high volume role with an accounting core. You ensure every purchase in your portfolio is coded, dated, received, and accrued correctly, so spend is right in the books every month.

Responsibilities

• Own the purchasing process - Manage a high volume of purchase requests, statements of work, change orders, and renewals each month across Workplace, Security, and People, keeping speed and accuracy high at the same time.
• Serve as the primary procurement partner by guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
• Review every purchase request for the things that matter downstream: the right vendor record and contracting entity, complete commercial documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and the approvals the purchase actually needs.
• Determine what each request requires before it can move, whether that is a statement of work, an amendment, a lease review, a privacy review, or a third party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers the first time.
• Partner with Privacy, Security, and Third Party Risk on vendors that handle employee or candidate data or have physical access to our offices.
• Launch and track contract review with Legal and outside counsel, keep it moving, and confirm the executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.
• Structure purchase orders so they match how the vendor bills and how Accounting needs to see the spend.
• Handle the mechanics that come with physical work and goods: multi line quotes, deposits, lead times, receiving, and asset handoffs.
• Know where a purchase belongs and help requesters tell the difference between a contract that needs Procurement and spend that belongs on a card.

Financial completeness and accuracy

• Code every purchase order correctly at creation, including GL account, spend category, cost center, and service period.
• Work the hard cases with Accounting: progress billed construction, retainage, partially delivered milestones, and change orders.
• Understand what a contract actually commits us to, including term, termination for convenience, and notice periods.
• Own the open purchase order book: receipts recorded against actual delivery, periodic reviews, stale line cleanup, coding corrections, and timely closures.
• Serve as the first line reviewer for month end accruals on your portfolio.
• Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds, PO mismatches, and receiving questions.

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, privacy, and finance requirements into plain language for Workplace, Security, and People teams.
• Keep a regular check in with your highest volume teams so upcoming office projects, renewals, staffing changes, and searches are visible early.

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

• 5 to 7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations.
• 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 managing services vendors on master agreements with statements of work and change orders.
• Experience with facilities, real estate, or construction purchasing.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with office build outs, leases, or fixed asset purchasing.
• Experience buying physical security services or systems.
• Experience with recruiting agencies, contingent workforce, or HR and benefits vendors.
• 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.