Supplier Oversight Manager

ACCA; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee assistance programme

Financial wellbeing tool

Competitive benefits

Job summary

ACCA is recruiting a Supplier Oversight Manager on a full-time, 12-month fixed term contract within the Financial Shared Services team. The role focuses on supporting supplier management, ensuring value, risk management, and governance across key suppliers.

You will drive adherence to procurement policies, lead data-driven supplier performance reviews using Power BI and Power Automate to streamline reporting, and act as a touchpoint for contract owners in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Studying towards MCIPS or equivalent
• Experience in supplier management, sourcing or ESG procurement
• Ability to build relationships, negotiate and influence across suppliers
• Ability to innovate and drive continuous improvement
• Good numeracy and analytical skills; able to present data clearly using BI tools

Responsibilities

• Support adoption of ACCA's procurement policies and framework throughout the supplier base
• Identify top supplier risks and coordinate mitigations within the risk management framework
• Coordinate annual benchmarking of supplier management programme progress via surveys
• Manage supplier management dashboards and governance reporting on a regular cadence
• Serve as escalation contact for contract owners on relationship issues and training needs
• Contribute to environmental, social and governance improvements with top suppliers

Skills

Strong stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

MCIPS or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Job description

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

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.

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 here https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/about-us/work-for-us.html.