Delivery Lead – Concentration Risk Workstream (VP/VP* Level)

Consult; Northampton, Knutsford; Remote; GBP 148,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Operations seeks a Delivery Lead for the Concentration Risk Workstream (VP/VP* level) in Knutsford. The role drives a future-state risk methodology across a large, regulated organisation, coordinating with stakeholders to embed risk models and decision-support tools.

You will design pilots, evaluate industry capabilities, and translate outcomes into scalable solutions, engaging Procurement, Risk, and Technology teams throughout the engagement.

Qualifications

• This role requires experience in risk management within regulated environments, especially financial services.
• Candidates should have a proven ability to design risk assessment methodologies and operating models.
• Experience translating risk data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategic concentration risk assessment methodology for visibility of supplier dependencies.
• Embed the methodology into a long-term strategic solution through business, process and tech requirements.
• Design and execute pilots, proof-of-concepts and validation activities.
• Collaborate across Procurement, Risk, Technology, and business teams to manage stakeholders.

Skills

Third-party risk management

Concentration risk

Risk assessment methodologies

Supplier risk

Stakeholder management

Regulatory expectations

Data analysis

Decision-support tools

Pilot design

Communication to senior stakeholders

Tools

Magnitude

Job description

Role: Delivery Lead – Concentration Risk Workstream (VP/VP* Level)

Location: Knutsford

Start Date: October 2026

End Date: 12-month contract

Daily Rate: Inside IR35

Payroll provider – Rockford Payroll

Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte Operations for an engagement with one of our clients.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Delivery lead to work on the design/future state concentration risk capability across a large, complex and highly regulated organisation.

The role will be responsible for working with internal stakeholders to develop a strategic concentration risk assessment methodology that provides greater visibility of supplier dependencies, common points of failure and supply-chain exposures across the enterprise. This includes evaluating emerging industry capabilities, supporting pilot activities, and defining the business, process and technology requirements required to embed the methodology into a long-term strategic solution.

Experience & Skills Required

• Strong experience in third-party risk management, concentration risk, outsourcing, operational resilience or supplier risk within a regulated environment, ideally financial services.
• Proven ability to design and implement risk assessment methodologies, frameworks and operating models that support strategic risk management objectives.
• Deep understanding of supplier dependencies, concentration risk, common points of failure, material subcontractors and wider supply chain ecosystems.
• Experience developing risk models, assessment criteria, risk indicators and decision-support tools to support effective risk-based decision making.
• Strong understanding of current and emerging regulatory expectations relating to third-party risk, outsourcing and operational resilience.
• Experience assessing supplier dependencies across products, services, technologies, geographies and critical business processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data and risk information into actionable insights.
• Experience evaluating or implementing dependency discovery, supply chain intelligence, risk analytics or related technology solutions.
• Proven ability to design and execute pilots, proof-of-concepts and validation activities, translating outcomes into scalable target-state solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across Procurement, Risk, Technology, Operational Resilience and business teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex risk concepts and recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with supply chain mapping, supplier graphing or dependency discovery tools (e.g. Magnitude or equivalent platforms).
• Experience leading concentration risk, operational resilience, critical third-party or regulatory remediation initiatives.
• Experience engaging with regulators, Internal Audit, Second Line Risk functions or Board-level governance forums.
• Experience supporting large-scale risk transformation, operating model change or third-party risk enhancement programmes.