Procurement Operations Business Partner - Workplace, Security and People

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own that path for the teams that keep Anthropic's offices, people, and physical spaces running. Workplace covers real estate, office build outs and leases, furniture and equipment, facilities services, maintenance, and food and beverage. Security covers physical security: guard services, access control and badging, cameras, and security consulting that protect our offices and people. People covers recruiting agencies and recruiting operations, HR systems, benefits and Total Rewards vendors, and training and development.

What it asks for · 6

• 5 to 7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations, including time supporting Workplace or Facilities, Security, or People teams.
• 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, capital versus operating spend, and GL and cost center coding. You can explain how a purchase order becomes an entry in the general ledger.
• Experience managing services vendors on master agreements with statements of work and change orders, where scope moves and the contract, the PO, and the invoice have to stay in sync.
• Experience with facilities, real estate, or construction purchasing, including milestone or progress billing and receiving against physical delivery.
• Working knowledge of how contract review, privacy and security 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.

Also a plus

• Experience with office build outs, leases, or fixed asset purchasing, including furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and working alongside Lease Accounting or Fixed Assets.
• Experience buying physical security services or systems, such as guard services, access control, or video surveillance.
• Experience with recruiting agencies, contingent workforce, or HR and benefits vendors, including the privacy review that comes with employee and candidate data.
• 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 designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low risk purchases without weakening controls.

Degree language

• Experience managing services vendors on master agreements with statements of work and change orders, where scope moves and the contract, the PO, and the invoice have to stay in sync.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• order13×
• service12×
• review11×
• spend11×
• vendors10×
• security9×
• accounting8×
• office8×
• purchasing8×
• experience7×
• month7×
• operations7×
• procurement7×
• purchase order7×
• request7×

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