Lead, Third-Party Risk & Resilience Transformation

Meraki Talent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Meraki Talent is recruiting a Project Lead to drive Third-Party Risk Management and Operational Resilience initiatives within a major financial services client in Manchester. The role focuses on enhancing supplier assurance, resilience testing and governance across the supplier lifecycle.

The position requires strong experience in TPRM, resilience, and outsourcing, with proven delivery of risk transformation projects and senior stakeholder engagement in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience across Third-Party Risk, Operational Resilience, Supplier Risk or Outsourcing, ideally within financial services.
• Proven experience delivering TPRM, resilience or risk transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of third-party, fourth-party and nth-party risk, supplier dependencies and concentration risk.
• Experience designing and implementing risk frameworks, processes, controls or operating models.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of regulatory and industry expectations around outsourcing, operational resilience and third-party risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects focused on TPRM and Operational Resilience improvement.
• Develop and enhance supplier assurance, resilience and testing frameworks.
• Review and redesign processes covering supplier exit, concentration risk, single-source dependencies and nth-party risk.
• Embed resilience and risk considerations across the supplier lifecycle and sourcing process.
• Identify process, control and data gaps and develop practical solutions.
• Establish effective governance, decision-making and escalation frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to use automation, AI and data to improve risk insight and scalability.

Skills

TPRM

Operational Resilience

Supplier Risk

Outsourcing

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Regulatory Knowledge

Automation AI Data

Job description

Meraki Talent is recruiting a Project Lead to drive Third-Party Risk Management and Operational Resilience initiatives within a major financial services client in Manchester. The role focuses on enhancing supplier assurance, resilience testing and governance across the supplier lifecycle.

The position requires strong experience in TPRM, resilience, and outsourcing, with proven delivery of risk transformation projects and senior stakeholder engagement in a regulated environment.