Procurement Workplace Lead

Job Description

Role: Procurement Workplace Lead UK&I

Location: Hybrid with the requirement to be in London 1-2x week

Salary: £46,000 - £69,000

About the Role:

We are seeking a UK&I Sourcing Specialist who will manage category sourcing and contract management activities across the UK & Ireland region, with a focus on Workplace, HR and Corporate Services.

The role involves delivering sourcing projects, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring procurement processes align with global and regional category strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement global and regional category strategies across UK&I projects.

• Identify and manage sourcing opportunities through spend analysis and stakeholder engagement.

• Lead end-to-end sourcing activities, including market research, RFP development, supplier evaluation, negotiation and award.

• Negotiate and manage supplier contracts, including SLAs and compliance with legal and internal policies.

• Support adoption of preferred suppliers and negotiated contracts within purchasing systems.

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.

• Ensure compliance with procurement processes, regulations and internal policies.

• Monitor category KPIs and savings targets.

Key Relationships:

• Global & Regional Category Leads

• Local Business Stakeholders

• Procurement Leads and Sourcing Teams

• Legal and Operations teams

Skills & Experience:

• Solid experience in procurement, sourcing or category management.

• Strong negotiation, analytical and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects in a matrix organisation.

• Ability to understand and communicate local nuances (market, process, relationships).

• Proactive, solution-oriented and collaborative approach.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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