Procurement Manager, Coupa & Supplier Governance - 12 Month FTC

Aon Corporation; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NFP in the UK Midlands is hiring a Procurement Manager, Coupa and Supplier Governance on a 12 month FTC to support our Commercial Insurance team. You will manage day-to-day procurement, provide Coupa expertise, and help rationalise suppliers while improving spend visibility.

You will work with business owners to promote preferred suppliers, drive adoption, and deliver procurement MI. The role emphasises governance, continuous improvement and accurate buying channel usage.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, purchasing or supplier management roles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Data-driven approach to identify issues and drive improvements.
• Experience with Coupa or similar procurement/finance platforms is preferred.
• Excellent Excel and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for procurement, supplier governance and purchasing-process queries.
• Provide guidance and training for the business champions and users on Coupa adoption.
• Coordinate supplier onboarding, due diligence and renewals with owners and teams.
• Produce procurement MI and spend analytics to support governance.
• Promote correct buying channels and supplier rationalisation.
• Coordinate AP-related queries with offshore services and avoid transaction-level work.

Skills

Procurement

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Process improvement

Coupa

Excel

QBE

Finance platform experience

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

Posting 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.

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

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