Supplier Manager

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:

• Build, develop and lead supplier relationships for all contracts, ensuring delivery and governance of key customer requirements, supporting the embedding of change and sustainable business practices and reporting.
• Using a variety of different performance data sources and information metrics collaborate and work with all business partners and share contractual and performance information and analysis across contracts to ensure expectations are met or exceeded.
• Lead, supervise and protect contractual rights in order to deliver prescribed outcomes and effectively supervise service delivery.
• Analyse specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions. Implement a culture of continuous improvement, appropriate to the nature of the goods and services being provided. Ensure investigation of performance or quality problems to ensure root cause analysis and the development of corrective actions.
• 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.
• Act as a source of professional expertise and knowledge with own suppliers, providing professional advice to key partners and colleagues whilst managing relationships with important internal collaborators and act as their business partner.
• Grow own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develop the capabilities of others by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or mentor in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation as the need arises.
  
  Sourcing and Supplier Management experience ideally in a large Corporate organisation
• Demonstrable evidence of risk mitigation and control frameworks in the financial services sector
• Detailed knowledge of governance and compliance standards with particular emphasis on Sourcing and Supply Chain 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.
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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