Supplier Assurance & Audit Specialist

Supplier Assurance & Audit Specialist

Leeds/London  

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About us 

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field from data, technology, customer care and auto repair, to HR, finance and procurement, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day. 

The purpose of the Supplier Assurance & Audit Specialist is to help implement the Supplier Assurance Strategy from within Shared Services. You will manage and undertake supplier assurance and compliance audits for Procurement & Supply Chain, ensuring there is management and control whilst ensuring compliance to contractual terms, legislation, and regulatory requirements. 

What you'll be doing:

• Conduct both remote and onsite assurance and audit activities within our supply chain.  This involves visiting suppliers on site both within the UK and Internationally ensuring that they adhere to any contractual, legislative or regulatory requirements whilst mitigating any risk to DLG.

• Input into the departmental strategy by ensuring that existing and changes in key industry regulations, such as to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other legal, regulatory or risk management frameworks are communicated to the Supplier Assurance Manager with a view to implementation into the strategy review/processes. 

• Ensure that the external scope is tested and a full audit trail is available to explain any decision not to test a scope item.  

• Conduct due diligence assessments on suppliers, to provide visibility of potential risks before the onboarding of the supplier.

• Ensure the consistency of risk classifications and reporting and identify any patterns or trends. Identify and refer serious single or trend issues to Supplier Assurance Manager.

• Manage both internal and external Stakeholders to ensure completion of assessment actions, ensuring that appropriate evidence is saved to support closure / resolution and a full audit trail is in place in all instances to support decisions.

• Manage relationships with all partners to develop scopes, deliver the assessment schedule, and oversee issue closure.  

• Support the wider our requirements by responding to and providing a professional service to ad hoc assessment requests, above BAU work where this is deemed appropriate.

What you'll need: 

• Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative.

• Experience within risk/audit/legal.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• High level of accuracy & attention to detail

• Strong negotiation & influencing skills.

• A strong commercial acumen

Ways of Working: 

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Read our flexible working approach here.

Benefits: 

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle: 

• 9% employer contributed pension 

• Up to 10% bonus 

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover 

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way. 

• Generous holidays 

• Buy as you earn share scheme 

• Employee discounts and cashback 

• Plus many more 

Being yourself: 

Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work – that’s why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter. From senior leadership to inclusivity networks, adaptive working to inclusion training, we’ve made it our mission to give you everything you need to be authentically you. Discover more at directlinegroupcareers.com 

Together we’re one of a kind. 

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