# 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

- 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 executed agreements

- Structure purchase orders to match vendor billing and Accounting needs

- Act as the dedicated operations partner for 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 and resolve issues

- Own the open purchase order book and ensure accuracy

- 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 spins up

- Scope purchasing needs and agree on a path with Legal, Security, and Finance

- Translate procurement requirements into plain language for researchers and engineers

Be the front door:

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

- Apply purchasing policy consistently and explain the reasoning

Continuous improvement:

- Maintain playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures

- Identify manual steps and failure points and implement fixes

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 an 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 month-end close process

- Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Zip
- Workday Financials
- Ironclad
- purchasing
- vendor operations

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