# Procurement Operations Business Partner, R&D Operations

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$230,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the purchasing path for our research organizations and special programs.

Responsibilities:

- Own the purchasing path for R&D

- Manage a high volume of purchase requests, work orders, and change orders each month across research teams and programs.

- Serve as the primary procurement partner for Anthropic's research teams and special programs, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.

- Review every purchase request in your portfolio for correctness and completeness.

- Determine what each request requires before it can move and route it to the right reviewers.

- Launch and track contract review with Legal and confirm the executed agreement supports the purchase order.

- Structure purchase orders to match how the vendor bills and how Accounting needs to see the spend.

- Act as the dedicated operations partner for our research services vendor portfolio.

- Handle hardware, equipment, and lab purchasing mechanics.

Financial completeness & accuracy:

- Code every purchase order correctly at creation.

- Work with Accounting on hard cases.

- Own the open purchase order book.

- Serve as the first line reviewer for month end accruals.

- Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds and PO mismatches.

Stand up new programs:

- Be the first procurement call when a new research program or initiative spins up.

- Run a regular pipeline check in with high-velocity teams.

- Translate procurement, legal, security, and finance requirements into plain language.

Be the front door:

- Be visible and responsive in teams' Slack channels and office hours.

- Apply purchasing policy consistently.

Continuous improvement:

- Maintain playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures.

- Identify manual steps and failure points and fix them.

Minimum qualifications:

- Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio.

- Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting.

- Experience supporting outsourced or managed service vendors.

- Working knowledge of contract review, security and privacy review, and financial controls.

Preferred qualifications:

- 5-7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations.

- Experience as the embedded procurement partner for a hyper-scaling data operations, ML, RL, and lab environments.

- Time at a hypergrowth technology company scaling procurement operations.

- Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process.

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

## Skills

### Required
- procurement operations
- accrual accounting
- contract review
- financial controls

### Nice to have
- purchasing
- vendor operations
- hyper-scaling data operations
- ML
- RL
- lab environments
- accounting
- accounts payable
- month-end close process

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