Description
Job Title: Senior Supplier Manager
Location: Leeds, Bristol, Dundee, Edinburgh or Halifax
Salary: £76,194 - £89,640
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our above offices or on-site with our suppliers.
About This Opportunity:
Insurance, Pensions & Investment (IP&I) Supplier Management is a centre of excellence dedicated to the effective management and governance of suppliers. We support our IP&I business teams in achieving their strategic objectives, delivering value, and providing outstanding service to our customers by ensuring that governance, due diligence, sustainability, and risk management are prioritised throughout the entire supplier contract lifecycle.
We foster a positive and collaborative working environment, where equal opportunity is genuinely upheld and diversity is deeply valued. Our team culture is built on mutual support and a shared commitment to helping each other grow and succeed.
In this role, you'll lead a team of Supplier Managers and take ownership of the active management of suppliers in accordance with the Group’s external policy and governance framework.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Lead and Encourage a Team: Take a senior leadership role within the Supplier Management team, guiding and motivating a team of 8–12 Supplier Managers in line with our Group values and growth mindset.
2. Strategic Supplier Oversight: Supervise the active management of key strategic supplier relationships and contracts, ensuring alignment with our policy framework and business objectives.
3. Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support effective supplier governance.
4. Support Senior Leadership: Work closely with Supplier Accountable Persons and the Head of Supplier Management to deliver robust oversight and management of key suppliers.
5. Performance and Risk Management: Use performance data and metrics to identify trends, drive continuous improvement, improve value, and lead supplier-related risks.
6. Contractual Negotiation Expertise: Lead or support supplier contract negotiations as needed, whether during sourcing processes or throughout the contract lifecycle.
Why Lloyds Banking Group:
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
7. Supplier Management Expertise: Confirmed experience in supplier management, within the UK insurance or pensions sector.
8. Inspirational Team Leadership: Proven track record of leading, empowering, and developing teams — providing clarity, challenge, mentor, and care to drive performance and achieve measurable outcomes.
9. Contract Management: Leading all aspects of commercial and contractual management, including negotiating outcomes and coordinating supplier performance and service delivery.
10. Strategic and Critical Thinking: Deep understanding of the external supplier market and the insurance, pensions, and investments landscape, with the ability to apply this insight to drive innovation and improvement.
11. Governance and Relationship Management: In-depth knowledge of supplier governance and compliance standards, with experience handling key stakeholder relationships up to Executive level.
12. Integrity and Growth Mindset: Excellent communication and advisory skills, with a dedication to continuous personal development and supporting the growth of others.
About working for us:
Our ambition is to be the top tier UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
13. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
14. An annual performance-related bonus
15. Share schemes including free shares
16. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
17. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
18. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.