Procurement Manager, Coupa & Supplier Governance

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.

• 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

• 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

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. Please email eurcareers@nfp.com for more on this.

• 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