Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience

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

Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience

Contract, 12 months +

Inside IR35

Manchester (Hybrid, 2/3 days per week in office)

Meraki Talent are supporting a leading, highly regulated financial services organisation seeking an experienced Project Lead to support a significant programme of change across Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and Operational Resilience. The Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience will focus on enhancing and redesigning third-party risk and resilience capabilities, including supplier assurance, resilience testing, supplier exit planning, concentration risk, supplier dependencies and third-party governance and will assess current-state processes and controls, design future-state solutions and support their implementation across a complex supplier environment.

Responsibilities of the Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience:

• 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.

Background of the Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience

• 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.

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