Project Lead - Third - Party Risk and Resilience

Project Lead – Third-Party Risk & Resilience Contract, 12 months + Inside IR35 Manchester (Hybrid, 2/3 days per week in office) Posted Mon 05 Oct 26 CVs ASAP Start date Oct/Nov 26 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. Is this job for you? At Meraki, we love recruitment and love words. Is this you? Gordon wants: TPRM, Projects, Delivery, Risk, Outsourcers, Third Parties Please see our website page headed (eg) ‘Privacy Notice' for an explanation about how we use information we collect about you'