Third Party Risk & Procurement Lead

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Working pattern:
Office based

• Define, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s Third‑Party Risk Management & Procurement Framework, ensuring it aligns with regulatory expectations, best practice, and internal governance standards.
• Establish clear policies, processes, templates, and minimum controls for:
• Vendor selection and procurement
• Due‑diligence and risk assessment
• Contract approval and commercial evaluation
• Onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and performance management
• Renewal and termination procedures
• Ensure all agreement owners across the Bank understand and comply with the framework through training, guidance, periodic reviews, and targeted support.
• Ensure the Bank obtains best value for money from all third‑party suppliers by embedding robust commercial evaluation, cost‑effectiveness assessment, and ongoing value‑for‑money reviews into the procurement and vendor‑management lifecycle.
• Monitor adherence to the framework and report areas of non‑compliance or improvement opportunities to the COO.

• Maintain a central register of all agreements within the Bank and oversee compliance with due‑diligence, review cycles, and performance assessments.
• Support agreement owners in performing their roles effectively by providing tools, templates, and subject‑matter guidance.
• Track contract renewals, expiry dates, and obligations to ensure timely action by agreement owners.

• Manage outsourced services and contracts directly overseen by Operations, IT, and Facilities, including maintaining ownership of documentation and service records.
• Conduct annual reviews for all directly managed contracts, ensuring regulatory alignment, commercial efficiency, and performance against SLAs.
• Resolve issues, disputes, and conflicts with external partners and escalates where needed.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with key suppliers and service partners.
• Drive value‑for‑money across all directly managed suppliers by reviewing commercial terms, identifying cost‑efficiency opportunities, and ensuring services delivered align to contractual and budget expectations.

• Overall responsibility for Facilities and Health & Safety, including owning the relationship with the building management firm and security company.
• Ensure compliance with all Health & Safety requirements including compliance checks, inspections, incident investigation, maintenance of statutory records, and management of Fire Warden and First Aider population and associated training.
• Ensure we are compliant with all responsibilities relating to office equipment management, oversight of the archive room and offsite storage, including destruction cycles.

• Ensuring a high‑quality service is delivered for all guests and employees and that all travel booking is within policy.
• Tasks such as stationery procurement and the greeting of maintenance people required to perform onsite work.
• Supporting as required in relation to any operational…