Procurement Manager, Coupa & Supplier Governance - 12 Month FTC

NFP Corp; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

NFP, part of the Aon group, is recruiting a Procurement Manager for Coupa and Supplier Governance in the Midlands on a 12 month FTC. You will lead day-to-day procurement and Coupa support, drive supplier rationalisation and improve spend visibility while working with business champions.

You’ll coordinate with stakeholders, provide guidance, and help ensure compliant, efficient procurement across the organisation. Experience with Coupa is preferred but not essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, purchasing, finance operations, shared services or supplier management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across suppliers and business teams.
• Comfort using data to identify issues and propose improvements.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for procurement, supplier-governance and purchasing queries.
• Coordinate with the business-champion network, providing guidance and training.
• Direct AP and transactional queries to offshore services.
• Support supplier rationalisation by analysing usage and consolidating activity.
• Promote preferred suppliers and correct buying channels with business owners.
• Drive Coupa adoption and catalogue usage through training and support.

Skills

Procurement experience

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Excel

Coupa experience

Process improvement

QBE

Education

QBE

Tools

Coupa platform

Job description

We’re hiring for a Procurement Manager, Coupa and Supplier Governance on a 12 month FTC to support our growing Operations team in the Midlands!

To keep up with our growth in the UK and Ireland, we are recruiting for a Procurement Manager, Coupa and Supplier Governance on a 12 month FTC to join our Commercial Insurance team. You will be responsible for delivering day-to-day procurement and Coupa support within the priorities set by the Senior Procurement & P2P Manager. You will also help rationalise the supplier base, improve spend visibility and support the business to use the right buying channels and complete purchasing activity correctly.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience working in procurement, purchasing, finance operations, shared services, supplier management or a similar business-support environment
• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills, with confidence coordinating activity across suppliers and business teams
• Confidence in using data to identify issues and support practical improvements
• Good organisation, adaptability and able to manage competing priorities with good attention to detail
• Experience supporting process improvement, system adoption or business change is advantageous
• Practical experience in procurement, purchasing, supplier management, P2P, shared services, finance operations or commercial support
• Good Microsoft Excel and analytical capability
• Qualified by experience (QBE); a degree is not required
• Experience with Coupa or a similar procurement or finance platform is preferred but not essential
• Experience in financial services or another service-sector environment is preferred but not essential
• CIPS qualification or progress towards it is desirable, but not essential

Using these skills, you’ll be:

• Acting as the first point of contact for business-facing procurement, supplier-governance and purchasing-process queries
• Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for the business-champion network, providing guidance, training and communications
• Directing all AP and transaction queries to the offshore AP service
• Supporting supplier rationalisation by analysing supplier usage, identifying duplication and coordinating consolidation and closure activity with business owners
• Working with business owners to validate supplier requirements, promoting preferred suppliers and using the correct buying channel
• Driving Coupa, purchase-order, catalogue and preferred-supplier adoption through guidance, training and support for business champions and users, without raising requisitions or purchase orders on their behalf
• Coordinating supplier onboarding, due diligence and renewals with business owners and specialist teams, applying proportionate controls
• Maintaining supplier, spend, rationalisation and benefits information and produce clear procurement MI
• Analysing spend, supplier usage, non-PO activity and recurring exceptions, recommending consolidation and practical improvements
• Identifying recurring service issues and support root-cause and corrective-action tracking through the agreed governance process; do not undertake transaction-level resolution within the offshore AP scope
• Supporting procurement governance, supplier rationalisation, communications and continuous improvement activity
• Not focusing on undertaking AP or business-owned activity, including invoice processing or coding, matching, payment processing, reconciliations, supplier-account queries, purchase-order or requisition creation, approvals, transaction chasing or Tier 1 AP helpdesk support
• Responsible for day-to-day procurement support, business-champion coordination, Coupa adoption, supplier rationalisation activity, supplier onboarding coordination, procurement MI and continuous improvement

We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let our Talent Team know – we’ll do our best to support you. Please email [e-mail] for more on this.

Who is NFP?

With over 600 people in the UK and Ireland and over 8,000 employees worldwide, NFP is part of the Aon group and specialise in helping businesses in four core areas:

• Insurance (helping them manage key risks)
• Health and safety (supporting them to create a safer workplace for their employees)
• Employee benefits (helping them reward their people more effectively)
• HR, people and talent (supporting employers and their people to thrive through changes and challenges)

What you’ll love about working here

• working in a multifaceted, fast-paced organisation in an exciting industry
• the opportunity to do globally impactful work from day one
• learning from industry and business line specialists with decades of experience
• a huge variety of projects to work on and challenges to tackle
• our People First culture, which illustrates our dedication to your wellbeing and development, not just as an employee but as a human being
• a rich suite of employee benefits and out-of-work perks