Supplier Manager

JOB TITLE: Supplier Manager

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £59,850 - £66,500

LOCATION: Manchester, Chester or Newport,

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Join our Consumer Lending COO, Supplier Management team, a centre of excellence dedicated to the effective management and governance of suppliers. We support our Transport teams in achieving their strategic goals, 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.

As a Supplier Manager, you’ll own the management of suppliers in accordance with the Group’s external policy and governance framework. You’ll ensure that 3rd party suppliers under your remit are managed according to the Group’s Supply Chain Management framework, ensuring suppliers are continually operating in adherence to policy requirements and risk appetite.

What will I be doing?

• Build, develop, and lead supplier relationships for all contracts, ensuring delivery and governance requirements, supporting the embedding of change and sustainable business practices, and reporting.

• Supplier Oversight: Own the management of supplier relationships and contracts, ensuring alignment with our policy framework and business goals.

• Risk Management: Ensure compliance with applicable Group policies, maintain an auditable trail, develop and maintain exit plans, and ensure appropriate business continuity arrangements are in place and tested periodically.

• Data Analysis: Use a variety of performance data sources and information metrics to collaborate with all business partners and share contractual and performance information and analysis across contracts

• Customer Focus: Analyse specified problems and issues to find the best solutions. Implement a culture of continuous improvement, appropriate to the nature of the goods and services being provided.

• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external customers to support effective supplier governance.

• Contractual Negotiation Expertise: Support supplier contract negotiations as needed, whether during sourcing processes or throughout the contract lifecycle.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Supplier Management Expertise: Confirmed experience in supplier management is critical.

• Contract Management: Support all aspects of commercial and contractual management, including negotiating outcomes and coordinating supplier performance and service delivery.

• Strategic and Critical Thinking: Understanding of the external supplier landscape, with the ability to apply this insight to drive innovation and improvement.

• Governance and Relationship Management: Strong knowledge of supplier governance and compliance standards.

• Partner Interaction: Ability to expertly interact with, and influence, partners/customers at varying levels of seniority.

• Integrity and Growth Mindset: Excellent communication and advisory skills, with a dedication to continuous personal development and team working.

Nice to have

• Curiosity and Teamwork: Be a naturally curious self-starter, with a strong desire to learn from colleagues and external sources, and be an excellent teammate capable of delivering high-quality outputs.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.