Supplier Risk Manager

Maidenhead, Berkshire
Kensington Mortgage Company

TPRM And Supplier Manager

Location: Remote (UK residents only)

Working Hours: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:30

Salary: Competitive plus 25 days holiday and a fantastic range of benefits

About Us

At Kensington Mortgages, we’ve been leading the way in providing specialist mortgage solutions for over 25 years.

We’re dedicated to offering people a chance to secure a mortgage, especially when high street lenders say no. Our approach is all about understanding the unique circumstances of our customers –It is what we call the Kensington Difference.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Bank UK PLC we are proud to operate with the highest standards of service and integrity, fully authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Overall Purpose of Job

Are you passionate about ensuring business compliance and driving value from third-party relationships?

We are seeking a dedicated Third Party Risk Management and Supplier Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role you will play a pivotal part in enhancing our

TPRM framework and building organisational capability to foster compliance and effective third-part management.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the P&P strategic vision and development plan.
• Stay abreast of external market trends related to TPRM, identifying innovation practices and opportunities from improvement.
• Support the drive to establish a business wide cultural awareness of the value derived from partnering with the P&P function.
• Manage challenges from the BRM community with respect to TPRM assurance outcomes and interpretations of best practice.
• Support the building of the procurement function and wider organizational capability by developing the skills of the BRM group and budget holders to enable improved TPRM.
• Contribute to the establishment of ongoing operating plans to develop and strengthen the function.
• Provide support to the Senior Sourcing and Supplier manager(s) on key projects as required.
• Support the business on lower value business led sourcing activity to aid compliance with third party risk management frameworks.
• Build the capability of the BRM community to not only manage risk but to extract enhanced third-party performance and value for money.
• Ensure that material outsource and strategic suppliers have compliant third party risk management via proactive engagement with the BRMs.
• Ensure that across the third party base all sub outsourcing is understood and appropriate due diligence is performed.
• Ensure that whilst applying TPRM best practice opportunities to optimize contracts and improve outcomes are captured (better service levels and or reduced costs) and advise Senior Sourcing and Supplier Manager of opportunities.
• Deliver regular clinics and communications to BRMs to aid and improve compliance to the TPRM framework.
• Provide support to the BRMS in their execution of TPRM and be the primary point of contact with the P&P team for all TPRM queries.
• Support the development and maintenance of a third-party risk management framework which considers all phases of the 3rd party life cycle.
• Support the development and maintenance of appropriate tools and templates to enable the execution of third-party risk management.
• Review TPRM assurance reporting to ensure commentary clearly describes gaps and agree remediation activity with BRMS with the objective of delivery a materially compliant status on TPRM, sharing recurring themes via TPRM clinics.
• Perform detailed quality assurance tests on individual TPRM activities, records and artefacts to ensure accurate and high quality execution of activities.
• Managed the preparation of TPRM assurance content, actions and commentary for cost optimization meetings to drive improvements.
• Manage business led procurement activity on sourcing report and update all records (ensuring that TPRM records are up to date).

Experience, Knowledge, Skills

• Third party risk management experience in Financial Services
• Experience in supporting the delivery of sourcing activity
• Working knowledge of contractual and commercial terms
• Experience in working in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable negotiation experience
• Third party risk management best practice ideally in Financial Services
• End to end policy and process development
• Working knowledge of financial services regulation requirements
• Communication, presentation and influencing skills including to Senior Management
• Excellent inter personnel and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build relationships and influence colleagues at all levels.

Qualifications

• Degree certification preferred.
• CIPS qualification desirable or equivalent professional qualification (e.g financial, legal or commercial)

Why Join Us

At Kensington Mortgages, we believe our employees are the heart of our success. We are committed to creating a supportive and flexible work environment that values personal growth, professional development and a healthy work-life balance

Our inclusive culture respects and celebrates diversity in all its forms, ensuring that everyone feels welcome, valued and understood. We recognise and appreciate differences in thinking, learning styles, gender, race, identity, ethnic origins and sexual expression.

We are an inclusive, neurodiversity-friendly employer committed to creating a supportive environment where all employees can thrive