Delivery Lead - Third-Party Resilience (VP)/(VP*)
Northampton, United Kingdom | Posted on 02/10/2026
Role: Delivery Lead - Third-Party Resilience(VP)/(VP*)
This is an exciting opportunity to join DeloitteOperations for an engagement with one of our clients.
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 capable ofsupporting 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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