Delivery Lead - Third-Party Resilience (VP)/(VP*) in Knutsford

Delivery Lead - Third-Party Resilience (VP)/(VP*)

Knutsford, United Kingdom | Posted on 02/10/2026

Role: Delivery Lead - Third-Party Resilience(VP)/(VP*)

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Delivery Lead to help shape and deliverthe next generation of supplier resilience capabilities across a large, complexand highly regulated organisation.

The role will focus on two strategic priorities:

• Enhancing the existing resilience supplier assurance and joint testingcapabilities to ensure their scalability, improve automation and drivemeaningful insight into the resilience of critical third parties and theirwider dependency ecosystems.
• Embedding resilience-by-design principles into the sourcing and supplierlifecycle, ensuring resilience considerations influence key commercial and riskdecisions from the earliest stages of supplier engagement.

Experience& Skills Required

• Strong experience inoperational resilience, third-party risk management, outsourcing or supplierassurance within a regulated environment, ideally financial services.
• Proven ability to design and implement risk-based assurance, testing orresilience frameworks that assess real-world resilience outcomes andcapabilities.
• Experience developing and delivering supplier resilience testingprogrammes, including scenario-based exercises, service recovery validation anddisruption testing.
• Strong understanding of supplier dependencies, supply chains,subcontractor ecosystems and nth-party risk.
• Experience applying threat-led approaches to resilience assessment,testing and assurance activities.
• Ability to design scalable assurance and testing models capableofsupporting large and diverse supplier populations.
• Strong understanding of supplier operating models, including outsourcedservices, managed services, cloud, SaaS and technology platforms.
• Experience embedding resilience requirements into sourcing, onboardingand supplier lifecycle governance processes.
• Ability to define resilience standards, decision frameworks, risktolerances and governance mechanisms that support informed risk-baseddecision-making.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills,with the ability to work across Procurement, Risk, Technology, OperationalResilience, Cyber Security and business teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complexresilience challenges into practical solutions and executive-level reporting.
• Experience within operational resilience, critical third-partymanagement or regulatory remediation programmes.
• Knowledge of regulatory and industry expectations relating tooperational resilience, outsourcing and third-party risk management.
• Experience with supplier testing, resilience assessment, threatmodelling, dependency mapping or resilience assurance methodologies.
• Experience supporting large-scale resilience, risk or third-party risktransformation programmes.
• Knowledge of resilience tooling, automation capabilities and datasolutions that improve resilience insight, reporting and scalability.
• Experience leveraging AI and advanced analytics techniques to reducemanual effort, improve risk analysis and derive insights from complex ordisparate data sources.

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