Procurement Operations Lead — Software & SaaS

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the end-to-end software purchasing process, from initial request to signed agreement and issued PO. You will manage a high-volume portfolio across teams, coordinating with Security, Legal, and Accounting to ensure proper records and timely accruals.

The role emphasizes vendor lifecycle management for software, SaaS, cloud services, and engineering tools, with an emphasis on AI-native procurement workflows and reliable

Qualifications

• Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in a procure-to-pay and intake platform.
• Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing: accruals and reversals, service period and cutoff, prepaid versus expense, and GL and cost center coding.
• Experience buying and managing software or SaaS at scale, including seat-based, usage-based, and tiered subscription billing models.
• Experience owning the tool and vendor lifecycle end to end, from intake through security review, contracting, renewal, and sunset, with the judgment to know when to push a request through and when to slow it down.

Responsibilities

• Own the purchasing process: 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, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
• Review every purchase request for the right vendor, contracting entity, complete documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and necessary approvals.
• Determine what else each request requires before it can move, and route to the right reviewers the first time.
• Partner with Security to run a vendor security review on every new tool and at every renewal.
• Launch and track contract review with Legal, ensuring executed agreement supports the purchase order.
• Structure purchase orders to match vendor billing and accounting needs with correct GL and service period.
• Track license counts and renewal dates to budget and prevent auto-renewal pitfalls.

Skills

Procurement

Vendor management

SaaS procurement

Working with teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Zip

Workday Financials

Ironclad

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the end-to-end software purchasing process, from initial request to signed agreement and issued PO. You will manage a high-volume portfolio across teams, coordinating with Security, Legal, and Accounting to ensure proper records and timely accruals.

The role emphasizes vendor lifecycle management for software, SaaS, cloud services, and engineering tools, with an emphasis on AI-native procurement workflows and reliable