Senior Vendor Management Specialist in American Tower’s Supply Chain team. Evaluating vendor partnerships and collaborating for continuous improvement of vendor relations.
About the role
- Outsourcing & Vendor Manager at Pliant overseeing compliance and risk frameworks. Engaging with vendors and ensuring adherence to regulations in a growing fintech environment.
Responsibilities
- Act as the second line owner for outsourcing, and third-party risk oversight
- Support compliance in the reliance framework
- Assure that policies, procedures and templates are up to date
- Ensure outsourcing and reliance arrangements are properly classified, documented and approved
- Provide independent challenge and supervision of first-line outsourcing and vendor processes
- Support risk reporting and internal governance committees
- Oversee onboarding of new vendors, outsourcing arrangements
- Support Compliance with onboarding of new reliance partners and oversight
- Coordinate due diligence and risk assessments with internal stakeholders
- Track documentation, approvals and risk reviews
- Support periodic vendor reviews and renewals
- Perform sample testing and quality reviews of outsourcing and reliance partners
- Assist with offboarding and exit tracking
- Maintain and update the central outsourcing and third-party register
- Support preparation and maintenance of the DORA Register of Information
- Ensure data quality and completeness
- Support regulatory reporting and supervisory information requests
- Support mapping of critical vendors and external dependencies
- Support internal and external audits related to outsourcing, reliance and vendor risk
- Contribute to monitoring plans and thematic reviews
- Prepare management information, dashboards and risk insights
- Support training and awareness initiatives for first-line teams
- Support documentation of exit strategies and contingency plans
- Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, IT, Legal, Finance and business teams
- Support internal stakeholders in following outsourcing procedures
- Support training and awareness initiatives on outsourcing and vendor governance
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Risk, Law, IT or similar
- 2–5 years of experience in one or more of : Risk management, Third-party or vendor risk management, Consulting or audit in financial services/tech, Operations in a regulated fintech or financial institution
- Strong interest in outsourcing, vendor risk and operational resilience
- Basic knowledge (or willingness to learn) of: EBA Outsourcing Guidelines, DORA, Third-party risk management
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Detail-oriented and structured working style
- Ability to manage documentation and spreadsheets
- Good communication skills
- Fluent in English (Finnish is a plus but not required)
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration
- Flexibility and possibility to work remotely
- Company card with a monthly allowance for lunches, coffee, etc. with co-workers
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