Supplier Risk Analyst

Supplier Risk Analyst

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Hybrid 2 days on site)

Contract Length: 6-month contract (possible extension)

Day Rate: £450 per day inside IR35 via umbrella

About the Opportunity

We're supporting a major organisation through a large-scale separation and transformation programme, and we're looking for an experienced Supplier Risk Analyst to join the team responsible for onboarding a significant number of new third-party suppliers.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys structured work, thrives under pressure, and feels confident engaging with suppliers and internal risk specialists. You'll play a meaningful part in a programme with firm regulatory deadlines, giving you exposure across information security, operational resilience, IT continuity, legal, procurement, and wider governance teams.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Leading the supplier due-diligence process for new suppliers joining the organisation as part of a separation programme.
• Reviewing onboarding forms and clarifying service scope, criticality, and resilience requirements with business stakeholders.
• Coordinating and facilitating meetings with suppliers and internal SMEs to complete due-diligence questionnaires and collate evidence.
• Assessing and escalating risks across information security, operational resilience, data privacy and IT service continuity.
• Managing and updating Kanban boards (Microsoft Planner), trackers and workplans.
• Presenting risk findings clearly and concisely for senior stakeholders, translating technical information into accessible summaries.
• Handling supplier pushbacks professionally and keeping delivery aligned with strict programme deadlines.
• Working collaboratively across legal, procurement, compliance, data privacy, business owners and technology teams.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience in supplier risk, third-party risk, assurance, or operational resilience.
• Knowledge across at least one core risk domain:
  • Information Security
  • IT Service Continuity
  • Operational Resilience
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including managing external suppliers.
• Strong planning, coordination and PMO-style organisational skills.
• Confident communicator able to summarise risk and technical issues clearly.
• Comfortable working in high-pressure, deadline-driven
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks such as operational resilience standards and sector-specific supervisory statements.
• Relevant certifications such as CISA (highly desirable) or CISSP (nice-to-have).
• Experience of risk-related PMO work.
• Strong Excel skills; MS Project familiarity helpful but not required.

Please note: Due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours, unfortunately, your application has not been successful on this occasion. However, we may retain your details for any future suitable vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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