UKI Procurement Plus Lead

Location: London (2-3 days office based)

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

As the UKI Procurement Plus Lead, you will act as a trusted advisor to Accenture’s internal clients, aligning procurement capabilities to their strategic goals and delivering measurable business outcomes. You will lead end-to-end procurement delivery across the UKI Market Unit, coordinating cross-functional teams and building strong internal relationships to drive value, performance, and growth.

You will oversee procurement delivery, manage performance and risk, and act as the primary escalation point. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across Corporate Services, Finance, Operations, Tax, Legal, and business teams to ensure seamless and effective procurement support.

What You Will Do

• Own and deliver the internal client procurement experience, building trust, satisfaction, and collaboration.

• Lead procurement delivery across Category to Contract Execution, Procurement Operations, Ventures & Acquisitions support, and Accounts Payable.

• Act as the primary escalation point, managing delivery performance, risk, and issue resolution.

• Identify opportunities to improve procurement services and better support evolving business requirements.

• Lead procurement delivery and transformation initiatives aligned with local and global stakeholder expectations.

• Leverage Accenture’s global capabilities and embed best practices to deliver consistent, scalable, high-quality services.

• Drive operational excellence and financial performance, including cost efficiencies and value realization.

• Enable the transition to Intelligent Operations, delivering measurable business impact and positioning the function for future growth.

• Build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive team culture that supports talent development, retention, and diversity goals.

Sourcing & Category Management

• Deliver procurement and product/service expertise across all in-scope categories.

• Drive value through cost reduction, service improvement, and innovation.

• Lead category activity for the UKI Market Unit in close collaboration with EMEA and Global Market Category Leads, including:

  • Category profiling, planning, and reporting

  • Demand management and benchmarking

  • Sourcing strategy development and supplier selection

  • RFx execution and governance

  • Strategic negotiation planning and oversight

  • Contracting, risk management, and supplier performance management

• Apply global contracts and best practices across the Market Unit.

• Support procurement integration for ventures and acquisitions.

Purchasing Operations

• Ensure purchase requests align with category strategies and Accenture policies.

• Oversee supplier fulfilment accuracy and timely issue resolution.

• Drive continuous improvement across purchasing operations.

• Ensure alignment with global and regional procurement frameworks.

People Leadership

• Lead 5 direct reports and oversee shared services resources supporting UKI operations.

• Manage engagement, performance, succession planning, and capability development.

• Build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive team environment.

• Optimise workforce planning, capacity management, and cost-to-serve.

Transformation & Innovation

• Ensure the right skills and capacity are in place to meet delivery objectives.

• Identify and implement process improvements and value-added services.

• Accelerate adoption of Intelligent Operations and digital tools to deliver measurable impact.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:​

• Significant experience across procurement operations, strategic sourcing, and supplier management.

• Proven experience managing senior internal or external client relationships with high delivery satisfaction.

• A strong track record of delivering commercial outcomes, including cost savings and value creation.

• Strong financial and commercial acumen.

• Experience operating within complex, matrixed, global organisations and shared services models.

• Recognised leadership capability with a focus on people development and inclusive team cultures.

Skills & Expertise

• Strong experience in bidding, tendering, and senior-level negotiations.

• Proven delivery against SLAs and performance frameworks.

• Deep expertise across both direct and indirect procurement.

• Expertise in at least two of the following categories:

  • External Talent

  • HR, Professional Services & Marketing

  • Technology

  • Travel & Mobility

  • Workplace (Facilities & Services)

• Experience operating within Procure-to-Pay environments.

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including C-level engagement.

• Strong analytical capability and commercial judgement.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience with eSourcing and contract management tools.

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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