# Procurement Operations Business Partner, R&D Operations

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $190k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Procure-To-Pay, Accrual Accounting, Purchase Orders, Vendor Management, Gl Coding, Cost Centers, Three-Way Matching, Accounts Payable, Workday Financials, Ironclad, Zip, Contract Review, Workflow Automation, Claude, Financial Controls
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Owns high-volume procurement operations for research teams, ensuring purchasing, contracting, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, accruals, and financial controls are accurate and timely. The role partners with Accounting, Legal, Security, Accounts Payable, researchers, and vendors while building scalable, AI-enabled processes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Procurement Operations
- Own the end-to-end purchasing path for R&D teams and special programs, from request intake through signed agreement, purchase order, receipt, invoice, and closure.
- Manage a high volume of purchase requests, work orders, change orders, renewals, and closures.
- Review vendor records, contracting entities, commercial documents, spend categorization, service dates, and required approvals.
- Determine and route requirements such as statements of work, order forms, amendments, security or privacy reviews, and third-party risk assessments.
- Launch and track contract reviews with Legal and confirm executed agreements support purchase orders.
- Structure purchase orders for fixed-fee, milestone, per-unit, and usage-based billing, including GL account, cost center, and service period coding.
- Manage research services vendors with master agreements, frequent work orders, and scope changes.
- Handle hardware, equipment, and lab purchasing, including quotes, lead times, shipping, receiving, and asset handoffs.

### Financial Completeness and Accuracy
- Apply accurate GL account, spend category, cost center, and service period coding, understanding expense, prepaid, capitalized equipment, and operating-spend treatment.
- Partner with Accounting on services spanning periods, partially delivered milestones, usage billed in arrears, credits, true-ups, and amended work orders.
- Maintain the open purchase order book through receipt tracking, stale-line cleanup, coding corrections, and timely closures.
- Review month-end accruals, gather vendor and budget-owner estimates, and confirm or correct proposed amounts.
- Partner with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice holds, PO mismatches, and receiving issues.
- Support audits, commitment schedules, reporting requests, and control evidence.

### Program Enablement and Stakeholder Partnership
- Establish procurement processes for new research programs in partnership with Legal, Security, and Finance.
- Run pipeline reviews with high-velocity teams to identify upcoming purchasing needs.
- Translate procurement, legal, security, and finance requirements for researchers and engineers.
- Provide responsive support through Slack channels and office hours, explain purchasing policies, and escalate blockers with context.

### Continuous Improvement
- Maintain playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures.
- Identify process failures and opportunities for workflow automation and AI, including use of Claude for intake, document review, vendor coordination, and requester support.

## Requirements
- Experience owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end across procure-to-pay and an intake platform.
- Working knowledge of accrual accounting for purchasing, including accruals and reversals, service periods, cutoff, prepaid versus expense treatment, and GL and cost center coding.
- Experience supporting outsourced or managed-service vendors at scale.
- Understanding of how contract, security, privacy, and financial-control reviews fit into purchasing workflows.

## Preferred Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations experience, including work with research, engineering, hardware, or outsourced-services organizations.
- Experience supporting data operations, machine learning, reinforcement learning, or laboratory environments.
- Experience scaling procurement operations at a high-growth technology company.
- Accounting, accounts payable, or month-end close experience, including three-way matching.
- Experience with human-data, data-labeling, annotation, evaluation, BPO, or comparable outsourced-service vendors.
- Experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
- Ownership of month-end accrual reviews or open-PO reconciliation for variable-spend portfolios.
- Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks.

## Compensation
- Annual compensation range: $190,000–$230,000.

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