Sourcing Lead

ACCA; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee assistance programme

Financial wellbeing tool

Job summary

A leading professional association in Glasgow is seeking a Sourcing Lead to oversee procurement activities and enhance sourcing capabilities. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in a senior sourcing role, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to manage critical supplier relationships. This position offers hybrid and remote working options along with a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate experience in a senior sourcing role with autonomy.
• Ability to lead strategic supplier relationships and contracts.
• Comfortable in fast-paced and high-pressure environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve sourcing capability through best practice sourcing policies.
• Engage and lead directorates in their strategic sourcing needs.
• Investigate markets and negotiate contracts for sourcing activities.
• Deliver service excellence and commercial value in procurement.

Skills

Experience in senior sourcing role with autonomy

Strategic and business-critical supplier relationship management

Strong numeracy and analytical skills

Excellent Excel and PowerPoint knowledge

Ability to build strong relationships

Education

MCIPS (desirable)

Job description

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We're currently looking for a Sourcing Lead on a full‑time, permanent basis. This position sits within the Procurement team based in Glasgow. We can offer both hybrid and remote working options.

The job

Reporting to the Head of Financial Shared Services, on a day‑to‑day basis, you'll be involved in the following:

• Lead, embed and continuously improve ACCA's sourcing capability through development of best practice sourcing policies, frameworks and procurement centre of excellence ensuring we are driving value, innovation, and improvement from our sourcing activities (c£120m annually)
• Proactively engage and lead directorate(s) in their associated critical and strategic sourcing needs using your detailed knowledge and understanding of strategy, priorities, and existing contractual estate/supplier base
• Through strong customer and stakeholder engagement coupled with intimate knowledge of supplier contracts, lead, develop and implement the annual Procurement Plan for directorate(s)
• For all critical and strategic sourcing activities, lead the investigation of markets, identification of suppliers, development of sourcing strategies, and negotiation of contracts securing and embedding value across the life of the contract
• Lead all critical and strategic sourcing activity ensuring all our procurement principles are met, securing value for money, managing exposure to risk, acting with integrity and accountability and optimising value, innovation and continuous improvement
• This is a key role in delivering service excellence, commercial value and thought leadership within the procurement function.

The person

We're looking for someone who:

• MCIPS is desirable
• Able to demonstrate experience of working within a senior sourcing role with a significant amount of autonomy in a large/multinational organisation
• Experience of leading strategic and business‑critical supplier relationships and contracts to deliver sustainable improvements
• Has gravitas to build strong relationships, and the confidence to challenge Senior Management
• Can confidently articulate and recommend informed decisions both within Finance and to Senior Management across the organisation
• Can think and deliver strategically with the ability to blend technical, operational, and commercial considerations to achieve best outcomes
• Can work comfortably in a fast‑paced, fast‑changing, and high‑pressure environment
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills to actively interrogate and present data in a meaningful format; excellent Excel and PowerPoint knowledge
• Strong work ethic for this role, which is positioned at a senior level.

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and offer a competitive benefits package to help you do this. We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool to our employees.

We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well‑being of all employees. We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.

For more information on ACCA, your journey as a candidate and the benefits of working with ACCA please visit our Work for Us page: https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/about-us/work-for-us.html.