The opportunity
Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We sit inside Finance Operations and own the path from “I need to buy something” to a signed agreement, an accurate purchase order, and clean spend data at month end.
What you'll do
Manage a high volume of purchase requests, renewals, and license changes each: month across the organization, keeping speed and accuracy high at the same time.
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 in your portfolio for the things that matter: downstream: the right vendor record and contracting entity, complete commercial documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and the approvals the purchase actually needs.
Determine what else each request requires before it can move, whether that is: an order form, a data privacy review, or a third party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers the first time.
Partner with Security to run a vendor security review on every new tool and: at every renewal, and hold the line that nothing goes live without one.
Launch and track contract review with Legal, keep it moving, and confirm the: executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.
What they're looking for
- + years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations,: including time supporting IT, engineering, or business systems teams.
- Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process.
- Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
- Prior ownership of month-end accrual review or open PO reconciliation for a large, variable spend portfolio.
- Experience with software asset management or license optimization, including: identifying underused or redundant tools.
- Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low: risk purchases without weakening controls.
