Supplier Oversight Manager

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants); Glasgow; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Income protection

Pension scheme

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

ACCA is seeking a Supplier Oversight Manager on a full-time, 12-month fixed term contract. The role, within the Financial Shared Services team, offers flexible location and focuses on strengthening supplier performance, value and innovation to deliver ACCA's strategy.

You will support procurement framework adoption, manage top supplier risk, and coordinate benchmarking and governance reporting. Strong analytics, Power BI and Power Automate skills are essential.

Qualifications

• The candidate is studying towards MCIPS or equivalent.
• Experience in supplier management, sourcing or ESG procurement.
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence across suppliers.
• Proven numeracy and data presentation skills with power BI/automation.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

Responsibilities

• Support adoption of ACCA's procurement policies and frameworks to drive value.
• Assist with top supplier risk awareness and compliance across contracts.
• Coordinate annual benchmark of supplier management progress via survey.
• Manage supplier management reporting and governance dashboards.
• Act as escalation point for coaching and training needs.
• Support evaluation of environmental, social and governance across top suppliers.

Skills

MCIPS study

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Power BI

Power Automate

Negotiation

Continuous improvement

Education

MCIPS or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Job description

Closing date for applications is: 25 October 2026

ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.

We welcome applications from candidates who meet some but not all of the criteria listed below.

We are currently recruiting for a Supplier Oversight Manager on a full-time, 12-month fixed term contract. The role sits within our Financial Shared Services team and we are flexible on the location of the role.

The Supplier Oversight Manager primary focus will be to support the Supplier Management Lead to manage our supplier management programme for our critical, strategic, and key operational suppliers ensuring we are set up to succeed in delivering strong supplier performance, value and innovation enabling delivery of our strategy.

The Job

Reporting to the Supplier Management Lead, this role will:

• Support the adoption of ACCA’s global procurement policies, frameworks and procurement centre of excellence ensuring we are driving value, innovation and improvement from our supplier relationships and contracts (c£120m annually)
• Support identification and awareness of our top supplier risk’s, working closely with Business Contract Owners and Subject Matter Experts to ensure a quality review is undertaken, compliance requirements are met, key risks are understood, and any mitigating actions are incorporated in line with our risk management framework
• Working closely with the Supplier Management Lead, coordinate the annual benchmark of our supplier management programme progress through a competencies-based survey generating ACCA performance v best practice. Supporting ongoing actions as recommended in the final report
• Manage our various supplier management reporting weekly/monthly/quarterly dashboard and governance demonstrating our successful continuous improvement journey and procurement oversight against our procurement key controls
• Act as key point of contact of escalation for business contract owners for (but not limited to) coaching, support for failing or problem relationships and training requirements
• Support evaluation and improvement on our environmental, social and governance to all our of our top suppliers.

The Person

• Studying towards MCIPS or equivalent
• Able to demonstrate experience of working in a supplier management/sourcing/ ESG procurement role
• Able to build good working relationships (challenge and support), negotiate and influence across the organisation and ACCA’s Critical, Strategic, and key Operational suppliers
• Ability to Innovate and generate ideas on how we do things to improve how we deliver (continuous improvement)
• Good numeracy and analytical skills to actively interrogate and present data in a meaningful format. Power automates and Power BI proficiency is essential
• Able to work comfortably in a fast-paced, fast-changing, and high-pressure environment
• Extremely well organized, analytical, and resilient to pressure.

Our Benefits

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and so have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include private healthcare, life assurance and income protection as well as a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme.

We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool called Nudge, to our employees.

Our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefit plan to suit your needs, you can choose to add a number of benefits including extra holidays, PMI family cover, cycle to work, Travel and Gym loans and more! You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site and wellbeing centre platform.

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.