MEA Procurement Delivery Lead Senior Manager

About the Role

Accenture Middle East is seeking a MEA Procurement Delivery Lead Senior Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves serving as a trusted advisor to internal clients, aligning Accenture’s capabilities to support strategic goals and deliver impactful outcomes. The Procurement Client Experience Lead (P+ CXL) coordinates cross-functional teams, ensures high-quality service delivery, and fosters strong internal relationships to drive value and growth.

Key Responsibilities

The P+ CXL is accountable for the delivery of all Procurement services within the Middle East & Africa Market Unit for Accenture’s internal client. This includes oversight of Category to Contract Execution, Procurement Operations Ventures & Acquisitions support, and Accounts Payable. Specific responsibilities include:

• Leading procurement delivery and transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with local and global stakeholder expectations and commercial objectives.
• Managing stakeholder relationships, supplier performance, and risk, while driving high levels of internal client satisfaction.
• Leveraging Accenture’s global capabilities and embedding client-facing best practices to ensure consistent, scalable, and high-quality service.
• Driving operational excellence and financial performance, including cost efficiencies and value realization.
• Enabling the transition to Intelligent Operations, delivering measurable business impact and positioning the account for future growth.
• Building and nurturing a high-performing, inclusive team culture that supports talent development, retention, and diversity goals.

Operational Duties

This role requires a blend of strategic procurement expertise, operational know-how, and leadership capability. Key operational areas include:

• Sourcing and Category Management: Delivering procurement and product/service expertise across all in-scope categories, driving value through cost reduction, service improvement, and innovation. This includes category profiling, demand management, sourcing strategy development, RFx execution, strategic negotiation, contracting, and supplier relationship management.
• Purchasing Operations: Ensuring purchase requests align with category strategies and Accenture policy, overseeing supplier fulfillment accuracy, and driving continuous improvement in operational purchasing processes.
• People Management: Leading direct reports and overseeing shared services resources, managing engagement, performance, succession planning, and training, and optimizing workforce planning.
• Transformation: Ensuring appropriate skills and capacity for delivery objectives, identifying and implementing process improvements, and accelerating adoption of Intelligent Operations and digital tools.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess over 10 years of relevant experience and demonstrate a proven ability to manage complex service delivery, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and lead high-performing teams. Required qualifications include:

• Proven experience managing key internal or external client relationships with a strong track record of delivery satisfaction.
• Demonstrated ability to drive commercial outcomes, including cost savings and value creation, within complex service delivery environments.
• Strong financial acumen and understanding of commercial models.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including C-level governance.
• Experience working in matrixed, global organizations with shared services models.
• Recognized leadership in people development, team building, and fostering inclusive environments.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operating within a global organization that leverages shared services models.