Procurement Operations Business Partner, R&D Operations

The role

You will own the purchasing path for R&D research organizations and special programs. You will manage high-volume purchase requests, ensure financial accuracy for research spend, and partner with research teams to define procurement processes.

What you will do

• Manage a high volume of purchase requests, work orders, and change orders for research teams
• Serve as the primary procurement partner for research teams and special programs
• Review purchase requests for vendor records, contracting entities, and spend categorization
• Route requests to Legal, Security, or Privacy reviewers
• Launch and track contract review with Legal
• Structure purchase orders to match vendor billing and accounting needs
• Manage change orders, renewals, and closures for agreements
• Handle hardware, equipment, and lab purchasing mechanics
• Code purchase orders with correct GL accounts, cost centers, and service periods
• Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds and mismatches

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in procure-to-pay and intake platform
• Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing
• Experience supporting outsourced or managed service vendors at scale
• Working knowledge of how contract review, security and privacy review, and financial controls fit together
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice to have

• 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
• Sourced human data, data labeling, annotation, or evaluation vendors
• Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad
• Prior ownership of month end accrual review or open PO reconciliation

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.