Delivery Lead – Third-Party Risk Process Redesign (VP)
Role: Delivery Lead – Third-Party
Risk Process Redesign (VP)
Location: Knutsford
Start Date: October 2026
End Date: 12-month contract
Daily Rate: Inside IR35
Payroll
provider – Rockford Payroll Info for
Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay
This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte
Operations for an engagement with one of our clients.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced VP-level Third-Party Risk specialist to
support the review, redesign and implementation of key third-party risk
management processes across a large, complex and highly regulated financial
services organisation.
The role will focus on assessing current-state processes and designing
enhanced future-state capabilities across key risk domains including supplier
exit planning, single/sole source risk, exit testing, material subcontractor
(nth-party) oversight and third-party assurance.
The successful candidate will be responsible for aligning processes to
industry best practice, emerging regulatory expectations and strategic business
objectives, before supporting pilot execution, implementation planning and
enterprise-wide rollout.
Experience
& Skills Required
· Strong thought leadership and practical experience in Third-Party Risk
Management (TPRM), supplier governance, outsourcing or operational risk within
a regulated environment, ideally financial services.
· Proven ability to review, design and enhance TPRM processes, frameworks
and operating models to improve risk management effectiveness, governance and
user experience.
· Experience simplifying and optimising supplier lifecycle processes while
maintaining regulatory compliance.
· Strong understanding of third-party, fourth-party and nth-party risk,
including supplier dependencies, concentration risk and single points of
failure.
· Experience developing and embedding governance frameworks, escalation
protocols, decision-making models and accountability structures that support
effective risk ownership and oversight.
· Strong knowledge of regulatory and industry expectations relating to
outsourcing, operational resilience and third-party risk management.
· Experience identifying process, control and data gaps and translating
findings into practical remediation plans and sustainable operating model
improvements.
· Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across
multiple Risk domains and Business Units to drive change and embed new ways of
working.
· Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with the
ability to translate complex regulatory and risk requirements into practical
business outcomes.
Desirable Experience
· Experience delivering TPRM transformation or large-scale control
enhancement programmes.
· Experience supporting initiatives relating to concentration risk, vendor
lock in risk, supplier dependencies or nth-party risk management.
· Experience reviewing and enhancing supplier controls, governance
processes and escalation mechanisms.
· Knowledge of TPRM tooling, workflow automation and data-driven risk
management solutions.
· Experience leveraging AI, automation or advanced analytics to simplify
processes, improve risk insight and reduce manual effort.