Senior Procurement & P2P Lead — Coupa & Spend Control

NFP; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NFP is seeking a Senior Procurement and P2P Manager to lead onshore procurement and P2P across Europe from the UK. You will own spend governance, supplier rationalisation and Coupa adoption, while guiding the Procurement Manager and coordinating with Legal, Risk and Compliance.

The role requires senior procurement leadership in regulated environments, strong analytics, and hands-on execution in a lean team. This is a 12-month FTC based in the UK.

Qualifications

• Senior procurement leadership experience in regulated or comparable service environment.
• Strong supplier-management, rationalisation, change and partnering skills.
• Good understanding of P2P, e-procurement and outsourced/shared-service models.
• Commercially and analytically strong; able to challenge senior partners.
• Hands-on leadership style in a lean team and changing environment.
• Experience leading procurement improvement, e-procurement or operating-model change.
• Strong reporting and analytical capability.
• MCIPS or equivalent senior procurement experience preferred, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Setting procurement priorities, buying policy, supplier-governance standards and spend control.
• Owning P2P controls, approval frameworks and Delegation of Authority alignment.
• Acting as business owner for Coupa, prioritising adoption, improvement and benefits delivery.
• Leading supplier rationalisation and spend-control activity; align purchasing to appropriate channels.
• Maintaining governance for key suppliers, third parties and outsourced services with Legal, Risk, Compliance and InfoSec.
• Owning governance of offshore P2P service; scope, performance reviews, controls and escalations, not day-to-day transactions.
• Reporting on spend visibility, supplier rationalisation, purchasing compliance, Coupa adoption, supplier risk and service performance.
• Line managing the Procurement Manager, setting priorities and supporting delivery and development.

Skills

Senior procurement leadership

Supplier management

P2P / e-procurement

Analytics & reporting

Change management

Coupa governance

MCIPS preferred

Job description

NFP is seeking a Senior Procurement and P2P Manager to lead onshore procurement and P2P across Europe from the UK. You will own spend governance, supplier rationalisation and Coupa adoption, while guiding the Procurement Manager and coordinating with Legal, Risk and Compliance.

The role requires senior procurement leadership in regulated environments, strong analytics, and hands-on execution in a lean team. This is a 12-month FTC based in the UK.