Supplier Governance Specialist

Location: Norwich, Bristol, Eastleigh - 50% hybrid

Supplier Governance Specialist – Salary circa £50,000

This is a great opportunity for a risk professional who would like to broaden their experience in supplier oversight & governance and enjoys influencing how risk is managed across a business. You'll be confident building relationships with a range of stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and using insight to support informed decision-making.

A bit about the job

As a Supplier Governance Specialist, you'll help strengthen how we oversee and manage suppliers across our growing Customer & Marketing supplier landscape. You'll support the development and embedding of supplier governance processes and practices that enable effective identification, assessment and management of supplier risk throughout the supplier lifecycle. Working closely with colleagues across business teams, supplier management, procurement and risk functions, you'll provide oversight, reporting, insight and constructive challenge to support informed decision-making and regulatory requirements. You'll also play a key role in driving continuous improvement by supporting assurance and audit activity, monitoring risks and actions, and helping shape best practice across supplier governance. Through your work, you'll help strengthen supplier ownership, accountability and risk management, while supporting a strong risk culture and the delivery of good customer outcomes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

• Experience in risk, supplier governance, or assurance roles, gained within either a first- or second-line environment is essential with a good understanding of the supplier lifecycle, outsourcing and procurement requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, provide constructive challenge and influence actions through to completion.
• Good understanding of risk management and governance within a regulated environment, ideally within insurance or financial services, including awareness of UK regulatory expectations such as the FCA.

• Strong analytical and reporting capability with the ability to review information and evidence, identify gaps, risks and emerging themes, and translate these into clear MI, governance reporting and practical actions.

• Proactive and organised delivery with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and deadlines, maintain strong attention to detail and take ownership of issues and remediation activities through to closure.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary circa £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity: 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please send an email to beatrix.rozsa@aviva.com.