Supplier Manager

Job title: Supplier Manager

Location: Edinburgh, Dundee, Leeds, Halifax or Bristol

Salary: £57,500 - £63,000 DOE

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our above offices.

About this opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Supplier Manager to join our centre of excellence for managing and governing suppliers.

Within Supplier Management, we support our business teams by ensuring governance, due diligence, sustainability and risk management are given full consideration throughout the lifecycle of contracts. This helps to ensure customer facing services operate effectively to support a great customer journey.

Working as part of a phenomenal team, you'll be responsible for managing suppliers and ensuring governance, performance and contract management is delivered.

What you'll be doing:

• Maintain the development and management of the existing supplier relationship, ensuring adherence to Group Supplier Management Framework, delivery and governance of key customer requirements, supporting the embedding of change and sustainable business practices and reporting.
• Through use of a variety of different performance data sources and information metrics collaborate, work with all business partners and share contractual and performance information and analysis across contracts to ensure LBG expectations are met or exceeded.
• Manage, supervise and protect contractual rights to deliver prescribed outcomes and support the management of the end-to-end contractual lifecycle.
• Provide oversight of and ensure efficiency of joint governance structures. Provisioning and collation of timely reporting and MI inputs where required.
• Ensure compliance to Group policies, maintain an available auditable trail, and be responsible for developing and maintaining exit plans and ensuring appropriate business continuity arrangements are in place and tested periodically.
• Understand, document and mitigate supplier related risks using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risks. Support where required on a range of LBG and Supplier led assurance and audit activity.
• Collaborate with meaningful internal and external stakeholders to ensure contractual obligations are met, taking mentorship from senior colleagues where appropriate.
• Support the management of Finance processes.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the constantly evolving needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you'll need:

• Supplier Management experience is crucial combined with working with a large, global strategic partnership, preferably with experience in the UK Insurance or Pensions sector.
• Proven evidence of key commercial and contractual management experience.
• Detailed knowledge of governance and compliance standards with particular emphasis on Supplier Management
• Key partner and relationship management experience up to and including Executive Management levels and across organisations
• Sophisticated commercial acumen with clear evidence of driving and negotiating commercial outcomes, contracts and value propositions, performance management, service delivery, continuous improvement and innovation.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!