Management Systems Auditor + ISO 9001:2026 Quality Management Systems

One pathway. Auditor capability plus ISO 9001:2026 quality expertise.

Behind every tender won on quality credentials, every supplier approval, and every ISO 9001 certificate, there is someone who knew how to ask the right questions, follow the evidence, and determine whether the quality system actually delivers. That person could be you.

This bundle is the complete pathway into the busiest corner of the audit profession. ISO 9001 is the most widely adopted management system standard in the world. Customers ask for it in tenders, supply chains require it of vendors, and all of that certification activity runs on audits. You take two courses in sequence. The Management Systems Auditor course builds your auditing foundation to ISO 19011:2026. The ISO 9001:2026 Specialist course then takes you through the revised quality standard clause by clause, and for every requirement it shows you how to interpret it, implement it, and audit it.

Remote and hybrid auditing runs through the auditing course as well. It integrates ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024, covering how remote auditing methods are planned, selected, conducted, and reported as part of modern audit practice.

The bundle is open to everyone. No prior auditing or quality experience is needed, and it works whether you are starting out or formalising skills you already use. You take the auditing course first, then the specialist, so the quality work builds on an auditing foundation you already understand.

The auditing methodology you build here also transfers to other structured audit contexts, including but not limited to the NDIS Practice Standards, the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme (NHVAS), and legislative compliance auditing.

You will be issued with three Exemplar Global Certificates of Attainment (TPECS) as you complete each course: AU26 Auditing Management Systems and TL26 Leading Management System Audit Teams for Management Systems Auditor, and QM26 Quality Management Systems for the specialist course. Credentials are issued as you complete each course, and finishing both earns a Credly digital credential, Lead Auditor Quality Management Systems, for the complete pathway.

Who this bundle is for

Quality auditing is the classic first step into an auditing career, and it is still the busiest. It is also where experienced quality professionals turn day-to-day know-how into a recognised qualification that travels with them. Wherever you are starting from, this bundle meets you there:

• Newcomers building an auditing career with a quality specialisation from day one
• Internal auditors who want to add QMS audits to their first-party audit scope
• Quality managers, coordinators, and QA professionals formalising the audit side of their role
• Aspiring external and certification auditors building a quality audit portfolio
• Consultants who need to audit and advise clients on ISO 9001:2026 conformance
• Supply chain and second-party auditors evaluating supplier quality systems
• Teams and employers building in-house quality audit capability (group enrolment available at /home/corporate)
• Anyone building toward Exemplar Global Lead Auditor personnel certification with a quality focus

What you'll be able to do after this bundle

The goal here is simple: when you finish, you can do the job. By the time you complete both courses, you will be able to:

• Plan, conduct, and lead management system audits using a consistent ISO 19011:2026 methodology
• Lead an audit team through every stage of an audit, from initiation and planning through to reporting and corrective action follow-up
• Interpret ISO 9001:2026 clause by clause, including quality culture, the process approach, risk-based thinking, and the quality management principles
• Build and improve the core of a quality management system, from context, scope and quality policy through to objectives and planning of changes
• Evaluate how an organisation controls its operations, from product and service requirements through design and development, external providers, and nonconforming outputs
• Audit customer satisfaction, internal audit, management review and improvement with confidence
• Audit effectively in on-site, remote, and hybrid environments using ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024 methods
• Demonstrate three Exemplar Global competency units, AU26, TL26 and QM26, to employers, clients, and certification bodies

What you'll learn

Two courses, one structured pathway, taken in order. Each theme below builds on the one before it.

• Auditing any management system with confidence
  Before you can audit quality effectively, you need to understand how auditing works. The Management Systems Auditor course builds that foundation using ISO 19011:2026, with remote auditing methods from ISO/IEC TS 17012:2024 integrated throughout. You will learn the principles of auditing, how to plan and manage an audit programme, collect and evaluate evidence, run opening and closing meetings, document findings, and lead a team through a complete audit from initiation to follow-up.

• How a quality management system holds together
  ISO 9001:2026 is built on the Plan Do Check Act cycle, the process approach, and risk-based thinking, supported by the quality management principles. You will learn how those ideas connect into a working system, why customer focus drives the whole standard, and how the harmonized structure it shares with other ISO standards keeps your audit skills portable across disciplines.

• Interpreting, implementing and auditing ISO 9001:2026
  The specialist course works through the revised standard clause by clause, and covers each requirement three ways: understand it, implement it, audit it. Organisational context and interested parties, leadership with the 2026 focus on quality culture and ethical behaviour, planning with the clearer split between risks and opportunities and the planning of changes, support and documented information, the full sweep of Clause 8 operations, performance evaluation and internal audit, and improvement. You will finish knowing what evidence to look for against each requirement and where quality systems most often fall short.

Tools and resources included