Senior Manager (Data Management and Training) in England

Hybrid UK Residents only - Sorry, no Sponsorship.

The Role - A career defining move - there are no limits to what you can achieve here!!! Base £90k. This is a senior manager position for someone who understands supply chain risk in its full depth, not just whether controls exist, but what a supplier failure would actually mean for a regulated firm. You will lead the delivery of a managed third-party risk assessment programme for a major financial services client, owning the relationship day to day, setting the quality standard, and personally accountable for every output that leaves the team. This is not a compliance administration role. Substantive analytical judgement is the job.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leading end-to-end supply chain resilience assessments across vendor tiers, covering security controls, operational resilience, data protection, exit planning, concentration risk, and regulatory compliance.
• Conducting design and operating effectiveness testing, critically evaluating supplier evidence to form and defend substantive conclusions.
• Managing senior client relationships, including risk portfolio updates and C-suite/board-level briefings.
• Mentoring junior analysts through supervision and collaborative assessment work.
• Driving programme enhancements, contributing to commercial conversations, and maintaining assessment methodology, evidence standards, and delivery playbooks.

What's In It For You:

This is not a role for someone who simply wants to do the job, it is for someone who wants to own something. You will not be servicing a process someone else designed or waiting for autonomy you have already earned. This is a genuine opportunity to build and lead a practice, shaping the methodology, developing the team, and leaving a visible mark on how a specialist firm delivers in one of the most consequential areas of UK financial services regulation. If you have spent time in larger organisations knowing you could do it better, or you are ready to step up from a specialist role into real leadership, this is where that happens. The complexity is real, the accountability is real, and so is the opportunity.

What We're Looking For:

• Senior experience in third-party risk management, supply chain resilience, or outsourcing assurance within UK regulated financial services, at a regulated firm, specialist consultancy, or managed service provider.
• Proven ability to lead evidence-led control assessments and defend substantive conclusions about whether controls are properly designed and operating effectively.
• Working knowledge of the UK regulatory framework: SS2/21, FCA operational resilience expectations, DORA, EBA Outsourcing Guidelines, and UK GDPR as it applies to data processors.
• Experience managing a senior client or stakeholder relationship and producing risk-rated outputs for executive audiences.
• Commercial instinct, the ability to spot a client need and frame a response to it naturally, without it feeling like a sales pitch.
• CRISC, CISM, CISA, or equivalent desirable but not essential.

The Right Person:

• Brings a clear point of view to supplier assessments, reaching conclusions, not summaries.
• Thinks like a risk manager, always stress-testing what happens if a supplier fails.
• Takes ownership proactively, raising issues early and holding quality standards without needing oversight.
• Communicates with confidence across technical and boardroom audiences.

Apply now or email me at r.kelly@ltharper.com