Procurement Ops Partner for R&D & Research Programs

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the purchasing path for our research programs. You will code, date, receive, and accrue spend accurately, guiding high‑volume requests from researchers to signed orders and PO issuance.

You will partner with Legal, Security, and Finance to stand up new programs, optimize vendor coordination, and ensure timely month‑end close and audit readiness in a fast‑growing AI research environment.

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: accruals and reversals, service period and cutoff, prepaid vs. expense, and GL and cost center coding.
• Experience supporting outsourced or managed service vendors at scale, where scope and volume move month to month and the contracts, purchase orders, and invoices have to keep up with each other.
• Working knowledge of how contract review, security and privacy review, and financial controls fit together in a purchase, and the judgment to know when to push a request through and when to slow it down.

Responsibilities

• Own the purchasing path for R&D across research teams and programs.
• Review every purchase request for vendor records, documents, and spend categorization.
• Coordinate contract review with Legal and ensure PO alignment.
• Manage open PO book, accruals, and month-end close support.
• Support audit requests and data reporting for the portfolio.
• Stand up new programs and define procurement scope with Legal, Security, and Finance.
• Be the front door for procurement in Slack and office hours.

Skills

Procure-to-Pay

High-volume purchasing

Vendor operations

Accrual accounting

Contract review

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Zip

Workday Financials

Ironclad

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the purchasing path for our research programs. You will code, date, receive, and accrue spend accurately, guiding high‑volume requests from researchers to signed orders and PO issuance.

You will partner with Legal, Security, and Finance to stand up new programs, optimize vendor coordination, and ensure timely month‑end close and audit readiness in a fast‑growing AI research environment.