VP Procurement Integration & TPRM Lead (Contract / FTC)

Role: VP Procurement Integration & Third Party Risk Management

(Contract / FTC)

Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract – 6 Months

Location: Knutsford / Manchester (Hybrid)

Role

Overview

We are seeking an experienced VP Procurement Integration & Third Party Risk Management Lead to support the integration and alignment of a newly acquired entity within a leading Financial Services organisation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving supplier and contract integration activities, strengthening procurement governance and controls, enhancing Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) frameworks, and supporting the development of a scalable target operating model. Working across Procurement, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Technology, and Operations teams, you will play a key role in ensuring supplier relationships, contractual obligations, and third-party risk arrangements are appropriately managed throughout the integration programme.

This position requires a hands-on procurement professional with deep Financial Services experience, strong supplier governance expertise, and the ability to deliver complex transformation and remediation initiatives in a regulated environment. Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, business integrations, or large-scale change programmes would be highly advantageous.

Key

Responsibilities

2. Lead the integration and alignment of procurement activities for a newly acquired entity, ensuring consistency with the wider organisation's procurement strategy, policies, and controls.
4. Conduct supplier and contract mapping exercises to establish visibility of third-party relationships, contractual obligations, risks, and dependencies.
6. Assess existing procurement and supplier management processes, identifying control gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
8. Design, implement, and enhance procurement governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating procedures.
10. Drive Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) activities, ensuring appropriate risk assessment, oversight, and governance frameworks are in place.
12. Support supplier onboarding, due diligence, governance reviews, remediation activities, and ongoing supplier lifecycle management.
14. Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Technology, and Operational teams to ensure successful integration of suppliers and third-party arrangements.
16. Develop and implement target operating models across Procurement and Supplier Management functions.
18. Manage procurement-related remediation and control enhancement initiatives arising from audits, risk reviews, or integration assessments.
20. Provide subject matter expertise on procurement governance, supplier risk, outsourcing controls, and vendor management best practices.
22. Produce regular updates, reports, and recommendations for senior stakeholders and programme leadership.
24. Ensure procurement and third-party activities are delivered in line with regulatory requirements and organisational risk appetite.
26. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen procurement efficiency, governance, and supplier performance.

Essential Skills & Experience

2. Extensive end-to-end Procurement experience within a Financial Services environment.
4. Strong Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) experience, including the design, implementation, and enhancement of governance frameworks and controls.
6. Proven experience across supplier governance, vendor management, contract management, and procurement operations.
8. Demonstrable experience developing and implementing procurement policies, standards, controls, and target operating models.
10. Strong understanding of supplier lifecycle management, including onboarding, due diligence, performance management, and remediation activities.
12. Experience working within highly regulated Banking, Financial Services, Payments, or FinTech organisations.
14. Proven ability to lead complex procurement transformation, change, or control enhancement initiatives.
16. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and engage senior business, risk, legal, and operational stakeholders.
18. Experience identifying and mitigating third-party risks and driving appropriate remediation actions.
20. Excellent project delivery and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
22. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
24. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable Experience :

2. M&A integration, separation, carve-out, or transition programme experience.
4. Technology, Payments, or FinTech procurement category expertise.
6. Experience supporting procurement integration activities following acquisitions or corporate restructuring.
8. Knowledge of outsourcing regulations and third-party risk frameworks within Financial Services.
10. Professional Procurement qualification (CIPS) or equivalent.
12. Experience working within large-scale transformation or regulatory remediation programmes.

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.

This is a FTC/Contract position located in London with hybrid working. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.

Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the clients' offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our clients' policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our clients now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require.

Who We Are:

Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.

Our 3 offerings are:

• Managed Services

• Consulting & Solutions

• Technology

To know more about Delta Capita and our culture click here: Working at DC - Delta Capita.