Strategic Sourcing Business Partner, R&D Operations
Core
Own the commercial side of Anthropic's R&D service provider portfolio (Human Data Operations, labs, outsourced services), driving end-to-end contract negotiations, template deployment, and vendor performance management.
Role type
Senior Strategic Sourcing Business Partner (Services)
Builds
Contract templates, pricing models, vendor scorecards, and AI-powered sourcing tools for R&D services
Domain
AI Research / Human Data Operations / Outsourced Services
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic sourcing, contract redlining, commercial negotiation, vendor performance management, TCO modeling, RFP management, SLA enforcement, portfolio consolidation
Preferred skills
Sourcing human data/annotation vendors, lab services sourcing, hypergrowth company experience, standing up sourcing from scratch, AI workflow automation
Technologies
Claude, contract management systems, data analytics tools
Responsibilities
Lead commercial negotiations and redline MSAs/SOWs for R&D services; build and maintain contract template libraries; manage vendor performance via QBRs and SLA enforcement; design pricing structures and competitive benches; partner with Legal, Finance, and Security on compliance and risk.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
