Supply Chain Risk Project Lead (Core Dependencies)

Meraki Talent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 148,000; Part time

Job summary

Meraki Talent are supporting a well known financial services organisation in Manchester for an experienced Supply Chain Risk Project Lead. The role focuses on developing strategic approaches to understanding and managing supplier dependencies and wider supply-chain risk.

You will work with internal stakeholders to design risk assessment methodologies, define requirements for a scalable, long-term solution, and lead pilots to embed the new framework.

Qualifications

• Experience in Supply Chain Risk and Third-Party Risk, ideally within financial services.
• Strong understanding of supplier dependencies, critical suppliers and wider supply-chain risk.
• Experience translating complex data and risk information into actionable insight and decision-making.
• Experience with dependency mapping or risk analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects focused on Supply Chain Risk and supplier dependency.
• Develop risk assessment methodologies, frameworks and operating models.
• Assess supplier dependencies, critical suppliers, common points of failure and wider supply-chain exposure.
• Develop risk indicators and decision-support tools to support effective risk-based decision making.
• Assess dependencies across products, services, technologies, geographies and critical business processes.

Skills

Supply Chain Risk

Third-Party Risk

Operational Resilience

Supplier Risk

Outsourcing

Dependency Mapping

Risk Analytics

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Supply Chain Risk Project Lead (Core Dependencies)

Contract, 12 months +

Inside IR35

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

Posted Mon 05 Oct 26

CVs ASAP

Meraki Talent are supporting a well known financial services organisation seeking an experienced Supply Chain Risk Project Lead to support the development of a strategic approach to understanding and managing supplier dependencies and wider supply-chain risk. The role will focus on improving visibility of critical supplier dependencies, common points of failure and wider supply-chain exposures across the organisation. You will work with internal stakeholders to develop risk assessment approaches, assess emerging industry capabilities, support pilots and define the business, process and technology requirements needed to embed a scalable, long-term solution.

Responsibilities of the Supply Chain Risk Project Lead:

• Lead projects focused on Supply Chain Risk and supplier dependency.
• Develop risk assessment methodologies, frameworks and operating models.
• Assess supplier dependencies, critical suppliers, common points of failure and wider supply-chain exposure.
• Develop risk indicators and decision-support tools to support effective risk-based decision making.
• Assess dependencies across products, services, technologies, geographies and critical business processes.

Background of the Supply Chain Risk Project Lead:

• Strong experience across Supply Chain Risk, Third-Party Risk, Operational Resilience, Supplier Risk or Outsourcing, ideally within financial services.
• Strong understanding of supplier dependencies, critical suppliers, common points of failure and wider supply-chain risk.
• Experience translating complex data and risk information into actionable insight and decision-making.
• Experience with dependency mapping, supply-chain intelligence or risk analytics solutions.