Supply Chain Systems Specialist in Bournemouth

We are pleased to announce an excellent opportunity for a self‑motivated, proactive individual to join us as a Supply Chain Systems Specialist. As a leading UK life and pensions mutual insurer with a proud history dating back to 1843, we exist to help people live financially confident lives – protecting their income while they work and maximising it when they stop. Today, over one million members and customers trust us to look after their futures, families and finances. Joining us means becoming part of a team that puts our members, customers and advisers at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues can thrive.

Within this unique role, you’ll support the implementation and embedding of a new AI‑powered, end‑to‑end procurement platform, focusing on supplier risk management, contract drafting and management, and data quality. This is key in ensuring that supply chain risk requirements, controls, and regulatory expectations are correctly designed, configured, migrated, and operationalised within the platform. You’ll work closely with our SCM, technology, risk, compliance, and delivery teams to ensure the platform enables robust, auditable, and insight‑driven supplier risk management. This is offered on a fixed‑term contract of 12 months, and you’ll be required to attend our Bournemouth office for 2 days per week (to include Thursdays).

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the design and implementation of supplier operations and due diligence workflows within a new, AI‑powered procurement platform, ensuring alignment with internal policies and regulatory expectations.
• Reviewing and mapping existing supply chain risk processes, controls, and data requirements, identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Supporting on data migration and cleansing activities, ensuring supplier risk data is accurate and fit for purpose.
• Working with the implementation team and Senior Supply Chain Risk & Operations Manager to validate AI‑driven risk scoring, alerts, and insights, ensuring outputs are clear and appropriate.
• Preparing risk analysis, management information, and implementation insight for stakeholders, including progress, issues, and emerging risks.
• Supporting business users through changes once the platform goes live.
• Supporting the completion of supplier risk assessments during transition.
• Collaborating with the necessary Risk SMEs (Architecture, Legal, Compliance, Data Protection, HR, Tax, Operational Resilience and Information Security) to ensure joined up delivery.
• Supporting audit readiness evidencing control design, risk assessment logic, and governance within the new platform.
• Supporting scenario testing and impact assessments to validate how the new platform responds to supply chain disruption, risk events, or regulatory change.
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities enabled by AI, automation, and enhanced data analytics.

About You

• Demonstrate analytical capability of using systems and data to deliver actionable business insights.
• Support system implementations, process transformation, or major change initiatives effectively.
• Understand supplier due diligence, risk assessment frameworks, and regulatory expectations within a UK financial services or insurance environment.
• Competently work with data models, dashboards, reporting tools, and automated workflows.
• Meet deadlines for delivery, balancing detail with pragmatism.
• Possess strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk concepts into clear business language.
• Have a keen eye for detail and comfortably flag any concerns or errors.
• Be proactive and solution‑oriented, with a collaborative approach.
• Have some experience in third‑party risk and/or operational risk frameworks in a financial institution (desirable).
• Have experience of working with AI‑enabled procurement, third‑party risk, or GRC platforms (desirable).
• Showcase advanced Excel or data analysis skills.
• Have previous experience of supporting audits, regulatory reviews, or assurance activity.

Rewards & Benefits

• 26 days' holiday – increasing after two years of service to 28 days
• The opportunity to buy or sell up to five days of holiday
• An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
• Flexible benefits, including a cycle to work scheme, personal accident insurance, critical illness cover, private medical insurance, and dental insurance
• Competitive pension scheme – LV= Life and Pensions will double‑match the amount you pay, up to 14% (subject to National Minimum Wage requirements)
• Group Life Assurance of four times your basic pay to your dependents (you’ll have the option to increase this to 8x cover)
• Group Income Protection, if you enrol into the pension scheme and reach 5 years of service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) service for support when you need it
• Virtual GP service
• Shared parental leave
• Up to 20% discount on our life products for you and your immediate family.

We’re proud of our inclusive culture at LV= and, as an equal‑opportunity employer, we continually work to remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process. We value our colleagues for what they bring to our team regardless of any protected status or characteristics they may have. Talk to us about flexible working as part of your application; if it’s right for you, our members and customers, and our business, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.