Procurement Business Partner, EMEA Operations

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Procurement Business Partner to serve as Anthropics procurement lead for all EMEA purchasing operations. This generalist role will own end-to-end procurement across EMEA markets with particular depth in Real Estate & Workplace and Professional Services categories. You will be the go-to procurement partner for EMEA business stakeholders building procurement infrastructure and vendor relationships outside the US as Anthropic scales globally.

This role requires someone who can operate independently across time zones navigate EMEA contracting complexities and bring strategic sourcing rigour to a high-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

International Procurement Operations

• Own end-to-end procurement operations for all EMEA purchasing from intake and sourcing through negotiation contracting and ongoing vendor management
• Serve as the primary procurement point of contact for EMEA offices ensuring consistent procurement practices and compliance across geographies
• Manage vendor onboarding purchase requisitions contract management and spend analysis for EMEA spend
• Navigate EMEA contracting requirements including local regulatory compliance currency considerations tax implications and cross-border vendor structures
• Champion Zip adoption and compliance for EMEA business partners; drive workflow improvements and self-service enablement
• Ensure PO hygiene timely receipting and clean metadata that supports invoice matching reporting and financial controls
• Support month-end close activities including accrual submissions and PO reconciliation for EMEA spend

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across EMEA categories with particular focus on Real Estate & Workplace (office buildouts facilities management FF&E) and Professional Services (Big 4 advisory audit consulting legal services)
• Develop and execute category strategies that balance cost optimisation quality and local market dynamics
• Conduct market intelligence and benchmarking across EMEA markets to inform sourcing decisions and ensure competitive pricing
• Lead complex vendor negotiations independently structuring deals that account for local market conditions while protecting Anthropics financial interests
• Build and maintain preferred-vendor frameworks for key EMEA categories driving consolidation and leverage where appropriate
• Manage RFP processes for major EMEA engagements

Business Partnership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as the embedded procurement partner to EMEA teams across Workplace Finance Legal People and other functions
• Partner with Legal Security TPRM and Finance to ensure EMEA vendor engagements meet compliance and risk requirements across jurisdictions
• Translate complex sourcing and financial concepts for non-procurement stakeholders; build trust through responsiveness and results
• Proactively surface risks savings opportunities and vendor performance insights to business owners
• Collaborate with the US-based Procurement team to ensure alignment on global vendor strategies and procurement standards
• Develop procurement documentation training materials and best practice guides tailored to EMEA operations

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 7-10 years in procurement operations strategic sourcing or category management
• International Procurement: Demonstrated experience managing procurement across multiple geographies and navigating EMEA contracting compliance and vendor structures
• Category Depth: Hands-on experience in at least one of the following: Real Estate & Workplace procurement or Professional Services (Big 4 consulting advisory audit legal)
• Systems Proficiency: Experience with Zip NetSuite Coupa or similar procurement platforms
• Negotiation: Track record of independently leading complex vendor negotiations
• Data Analysis: Strong skills in Excel/Google Sheets; experience with basic SQL or BI tools (Looker Tableau Power BI) for vendor and spend analysis
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to work effectively across time zones and cultural contexts
• Risk & Compliance: Understanding of financial controls vendor risk management and procurement compliance requirements in EMEA contexts

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Generalist mindset with strategic sourcing depth; comfortable spanning multiple categories while going deep on key ones
• Business partner first not a gatekeeper; enables speed while maintaining appropriate controls
• Self-starter who can build procurement infrastructure and processes in new markets without a complete playbook
• Comfortable operating independently across time zones with a distributed team
• High accountability low ego; builds trust through follow-through and results
• Brings intellectual curiosity about how procurement enables a mission-driven AI companys global expansion
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Nice to Have

• Experience in technology or AI/ML companies
• Background in EMEA or EMEA office buildout procurement
• Experience with Big 4 or major professional services firm engagement management
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure procurement (AWS GCP Azure)
• Experience supporting month-end close processes (accruals PO reconciliation)
• CPSM CSCP CIPS or other relevant procurement certifications
• Experience at hyper-growth or high-growth technology companies

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process