Procurement Operations Business Partner R&D Operations

Skills

About the Role

You will own end-to-end purchasing for research organizations, from intake through signed agreements, purchase orders, receipts, accruals, and close. You will coordinate Legal, Security, Finance, vendors, and requesters; resolve invoice issues; support new programs; and improve procurement workflows.

Requirements

• Own high-volume purchasing portfolios in procure-to-pay and intake platforms
• Understand accrual accounting, general-ledger coding, prepaids, expenses, and cutoffs
• Support outsourced or managed-service vendors at scale
• Understand contract, security, privacy, and financial-control reviews

Responsibilities

• Manage purchase requests, work orders, and change orders
• Guide requesters from purchase intake to signed agreement and issued purchase order
• Review vendor records, documents, categorization, service dates, and approvals
• Route requests for contract, security, privacy, and risk reviews
• Structure and manage purchase orders, renewals, changes, and closures
• Code purchase orders and maintain accurate financial records
• Review accruals, receipts, open purchase orders, and reconciliations
• Resolve invoice holds and purchase-order mismatches
• Support new research programs and communicate purchasing requirements
• Maintain procurement playbooks and improve intake workflows

Benefits

• Equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours