Senior Manager - TPRM
Hybrid UK Residents only - Sorry, no Sponsorship.
The Role - A career defining move - there are no limits to what you can achieve here!!!
Base £90k
This is a senior Manager position for someone who understands supply chain risk in its full depth, not just whether controls exist, but what a supplier failure would actually mean for a regulated firm.
You will lead the delivery of a managed third-party risk assessment programme for a major financial services client, owning the relationship day to day, setting the quality standard, and personally accountable for every output that leaves the team. This is not a compliance administration role. Substantive analytical judgement is the job.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading end-to-end supply chain resilience assessments across vendor tiers, covering security controls, operational resilience, data protection, exit planning, concentration risk, and regulatory compliance.
- You understand supply chain risk in a business context, have the confidence to back your decisions and the ability to present solutions, because you are the clients trusted advisor and their enabler.
- Conducting design and operating effectiveness testing, critically evaluating supplier evidence to form and defend substantive conclusions.
- Managing senior client relationships, including risk portfolio updates and C-suite/board-level briefings.
- Mentoring junior analysts through supervision and collaborative assessment work.
- Driving programme enhancements, contributing to commercial conversations, and maintaining assessment methodology, evidence standards, and delivery playbooks.
What's In It For You:
- This is not a role for someone who simply wants to do the job, it is for someone who wants to own something.
- You will not be servicing a process someone else designed or waiting for autonomy you have already earned.
- This is a genuine opportunity to build and lead a practice, shaping the methodology, developing the team, and leaving a visible mark on how a specialist firm delivers in one of the most consequential areas of UK financial services regulation.
- If you have spent time in larger organisations knowing you could do it better, or you are ready to step up from a specialist role into real leadership, this is where that happens. The complexity is real, the accountability is real, and so is the opportunity.
What We're Looking For
- Senior experience in third-party risk management, supply chain resilience, or outsourcing assurance within UK regulated financial services, at a regulated firm, specialist consultancy, or managed service provider
- Proven ability to lead evidence-led control assessments and defend substantive conclusions about whether controls are properly designed and operating effectively
- Working knowledge of the UK regulatory framework: SS2/21, FCA operational resilience expectations, DORA, EBA Outsourcing Guidelines, and UK GDPR as it applies to data processors
- Experience managing a senior client or stakeholder relationship and producing risk-rated outputs for executive audiences
- Commercial instinct, the ability to spot a client need and frame a response to it naturally, without it feeling like a sales pitch
- CRISC, CISM, CISA, or equivalent desirable but not essential
The Right Person:
- Brings a clear point of view to supplier assessments, reaching conclusions, not summaries.
- Thinks like a risk manager, always stress-testing what happens if a supplier fails.
- Takes ownership proactively, raising issues early and holding quality standards without needing oversight.
- Communicates with confidence across technical and boardroom audiences.
Apply now or email me at r.kelly@ltharper.com