CIPS Qualifications
The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply is the global professional body for procurement. skills+ delivers the complete pathway, Level 2 through Level 6, as an approved study and examination centre.
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Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations
Your first step into the procurement profession, build essential knowledge, earn your first CIPS qualification, and lay the foundation for a globally recognised career in procurement and supply.
Advanced Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations
Build on your procurement foundations and develop the operational expertise to carry out procurement and supply tasks with greater confidence, professionalism, and strategic awareness.
Diploma in Procurement and Supply
The highest entry point on the CIPS pathway, begin your journey to MCIPS Chartered status with the professional-level qualification that marks the transition from operational to strategic procurement practice.
Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply
Take your next step towards MCIPS Chartered status, develop advanced strategic procurement and supply skills and build the expertise to lead at a senior professional level.
Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply
The final step to MCIPS Chartered status, demonstrate mastery of strategic procurement at the highest professional level and earn the world's most recognised procurement credential.
01Why this pathway matters here
In this region, procurement capability is a governance question.
Government entities across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are held to tightening standards on transparency, value for money and local content. Those standards are enforced through procurement teams. Where the team is qualified, the audit finding does not arrive.
The CIPS pathway is the only complete progression we deliver, five consecutive levels under one institute, which makes it the clearest route for an entity that wants to lift a whole function rather than a few individuals. It is also the qualification our sister company impact+ most often recommends at the end of a procurement transformation, when the new operating model needs people who can run it.
02The five levels
Module structures are set by CIPS and revised periodically. Current module lists, examination windows and fees are confirmed at enrolment.
03How we run it
Examination centre on site
CIPS assesses by examination. We are an approved examination centre, so learners sit where they studied rather than travelling to a third-party venue.
Cohorts built around exam windows
CIPS runs fixed examination series through the year. Our teaching calendar is built backwards from those dates, with revision and practice papers scheduled into the final weeks.
Whole-function enrolment
For entities lifting an entire procurement department, we run parallel cohorts at different levels with a single progress report to the sponsoring executive.