We are currently recruiting an exciting opportunity within our Resilience and Process Improvement team, as a Supplier Management Adviser. Working alongside the Supplier Management Manager, this role will be responsible for training and upskilling relationship managers within the business, enabling them to become self-sufficient in their supplier management responsibilities.
The Role
The Supplier Management Adviser will be responsible for ensuring that relationship managers adopt their supplier management responsibilities and will build monitoring tools to demonstrate evidence of this. For example, you will demonstrate performance in:
- Onboarding suppliers in line with the process accurately
- Exit planning documentation and conversations
- Operational Resiliency testing plans and tests carried out and recorded
- Annual due diligence
- Regular performance review meetings and records
- Overall ability to manage all elements of supplier management in a timely and accurate way and demonstrate the discipline to sustain this as a BAU activity.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate will have strong stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build trust and credibility quickly. Supplier management experience and a proven ability to influence change is essential. You should be a confident communicator with good organizational skills and an ability to meet tight deadlines within a changing, complex environment. A knowledge of financial services and business continuity management experience is desirable.
We offer a competitive remuneration package, including company discretionary bonus, excellent pension contributions, an attractive staff share scheme, BUPA health insurance, buying and selling of annual leave and sponsorship of relevant professional qualifications.
The role is based in our central London office, working a minimum of two days a week in the office and three days a week from home.
About Us
Transact is the leading independent investment wrap platform in the UK. Established in 2000, we have over £61 billion of funds under direction (as at March 2024) on behalf of over 7,800 advisers and 231,500 investor clients. Our service includes an online platform, owned and built by us, and dedicated regional adviser support to help bring clients' assets and investments together in a smarter, more tax efficient way. We offer access to a wide range of tax wrappers (including ISAs, pensions and life insurance investment bonds) and funds which advisers use to build client investment portfolios. Portfolio valuations, purchases and sales are all supported via Transact Online which is available 24/7. Transact's parent company, IntegraFin Holdings plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index.
Equal Opportunities
We provide a diverse and inclusive workplace and ensure that all of our staff respect and understand individual differences. We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.