Manager, Supply Chain & Operations 1

Manager, Supply Chain & Operations 1

Location: London

Salary: Competitive

Date Posted: Mar 25, 2026

Job Overview

At EY, our Procurement Transformation consulting team works with some of the world's top organisations to help them build high performing procurement capabilities. We are looking for experienced procurement professionals to join our growing team and support our clients to navigate the unprecedented global uncertainty, volatility and risk within supply chains.

Opportunity

Take your career to the next level and join a high performing and inclusive team, working collaboratively with some of the most significant organisations in the world as they seek to optimise and transform their commercial & procurement operations.

You will have the opportunity to work on a range of different client projects, working across industry sectors and the full procurement lifecycle, including:

• Delivering high value complex strategic sourcing projects, supporting clients to identify and onboard suppliers to deliver some of their largest and most critical projects.
• Engaging with business stakeholders and suppliers to shape category strategies that best meet the organisations' needs and take advantage of market and industry best practice.
• Conducting assessments on third party spend using analytics tools, identifying opportunities to reduce cost and implementing projects to improve ways of working.
• Supporting clients to navigate supplier performance issues that are impacting business outcomes, and implementing leading practice contract and supplier management capabilities.
• Reviewing the current procurement operating model and identifying and implementing improvements.
• Providing formal and informal procurement training to client teams so they have the technical and soft skills to deliver the best procurement outcomes.
• Supporting clients to implement leading procurement technology practices, including robotic process automation and artificial intelligence.

Your Key Responsibilities

Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice, and people who are passionate about going above and beyond to improve our working world are essential to us. This is crucial to consistently delivering or exceeding on our commitments.

As a Manager you'll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational, team and personal development.

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor to clients, working with procurement and wider business stakeholders.
• Be adept at problem solving with clients and project teams, leveraging your skills to manage projects to completion.
• Develop experience and relationships across several clients over time, often as part of a team from different parts of EY's world, whilst maintaining focus on current project delivery.
• Support successful delivery of projects and workstreams as forecast to time and budget.
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities and deliverables within your remit.
• Develop our people - increasingly become an inclusive leader capable of forming diverse high performing teams that are enjoyable to be part of and help our consultant and client teams to develop and realise their potential.
• Build the skills of those who work with you through mentoring and coaching.
• Help shape our leading procurement practices and methodology through research and analysis.
• Help develop and deliver our internal procurement training programme so that we build the capabilities of our team.
• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase some of our leading practices.

Your Experience

Typically, Managers bring practical experience from either a consulting or industry background where they have developed technical and managerial expertise. While consulting experience is not essential, you will have experience leading projects and delivering business change for your organisation.

Minimum Requirements

• A minimum of five years procurement experience.
• Track record of managing projects and internal initiatives in a fast paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills, with evidence of being able to draw out insights from a range of different data sources.
• Ability to successfully work with and influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience managing diverse teams of people, including mentoring and coaching.
• Ability to produce clear and concise reports that effectively communicate complex findings and recommendations.

Qualifications

Many of our Managers have professional body membership or qualifications such as Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or International Association of Commercial & Contract Management (IACCM) or equivalent. If you feel that you have skills which you believe would be additive to our team, please apply.

Benefits

• Continuous learning: you'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: we'll provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: we'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: you'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Diversity & Inclusion

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness.