Risk & Compliance Team Leader

We are looking for a Risk and Compliance Team Leader to join a new team, supervising a team fo 3

The role is to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in the businesses supply chain, with a focus on supplier compliance. Leading the compliance team, the role holder will work with key stakeholders across the business and suppliers, ensuring the supplier compliance meets existing and future business needs through audits, measures and management of accreditations, certifications and financial health.

This will include development of a plan to meet the supplier compliance & risk KPIs for the business, optimise supplier data maintenance and reporting, and providing guidance/training to wider teams to ensure consistent communication of expectations and standards are maintained.

You should be capable of acting as an SME in current and updated legal and regulatory risks and guidance as well as monitoring contractual, legislative, regulatory and industry specific compliance frameworks.

You will be able to develop strong relationships with business stakeholders to ensure current frameworks are meeting the needs of the business as well as managing the business updates and communications to ensure ongoing supplier engagement is meeting with company Standards. You iwill also support Risk Management MI reporting by reporting supplier performance and progress against key team KPIs.

The ideal candidate will have experience working within the Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering or Construction industries in a hands on risk and/or compliance role with people management experience not essential but desirable, be successful in liaising with a wide range of stakeholders internally and externally as well as being able to communicate complex information to stakeholders at all levels.