Senior Consultant – Third-Party Risk, Supply Chain Risk

Manager / Senior Manager, Third Party Risk and Supply Chain Assurance

• £65,000 to £90,000
• Hybrid, one day a month in Leeds plus client sites as required
• MUST be eligible for UK Security Clearance - No sponsorship - sorry!

You'll be the named lead on a managed supply chain assurance engagements. That means you own the relationship, you own the quality of every output, and you're the person who decides whether a supplier's evidence actually stands up. This is analytical judgement about what would happen if a supplier failed, not chasing questionnaire responses.

What you'll actually do

• Lead assessments across Critical, High and Medium tier vendors, covering security controls, operational resilience, data protection, exit readiness and concentration risk
• Run design and operating effectiveness testing on Critical and High tier suppliers, forming and defending a conclusion on whether controls work as intended
• Produce management information, and present findings to board-level stakeholders
• Manage supplier engagement on the client's behalf, pursuing evidence gaps and escalating unresponsive or high-risk suppliers
• Develop the firm's assessment methodology and playbooks from what you learn on live programmes.

What you'll need

• Experience in third party risk, supply chain resilience or outsourcing assurance within a regulated a regulated environment (FS CNI) , a consultancy or a managed service provider
• Evidence-led control assessment experience, including design and operating effectiveness testing or internal audit methodology applied to third party risk
• Working knowledge operational resilience expectations, UK GDPR as it applies to processors and sub-processors, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials
• Assessment experience across the full supplier risk profile: security, data protection, business continuity, exit planning, concentration risk and fourth party risk
• Experience as the primary contact on a senior client or stakeholder relationship, including honest conversations when the findings are uncomfortable
• Comfortable spotting and progressing commercial opportunities within an account, or flagging to our sales lead.
• Nice - CRISC, CISM or CISA, or actively working towards one

What's in it for you

A boutique with no layers to hide behind. You set the standard, you shape the methodology, and you get direct board-level exposure rather than filtered access through three levels of management. If you need any adjustments during the application process, tell us and we'll make them.

Apply

LT Harper is handling this search on the client's behalf. If you're interested, apply directly on this advert. If you have any questions, or would like to refer someone, reach out to Ryan Kelly at r.kelly@ltharper.com.