Supplier Management Partner

We’re DF Capital – a specialist bank providing award-winning commercial finance, retail finance, and savings products to consumers and small businesses. Based in Manchester, we serve thousands of customers across the UK and into Europe, supporting their ambitions with tailored financial solutions. We help our customers realise their ambitions by doing things differently – combining the agility and innovation of a specialist lender with the security and service standards of a regulated bank. Whether it’s flexible lending structures or straightforward savings options, we focus on what matters most to our customers. In 2025, we launched DF Capital Retail Finance – a subsidiary of DF Capital Bank Limited – to offer specialist hire purchase solutions to retail customers. Our goal is simple: to do the absolute best for our customers, our communities, and each other. Your new role: The Supplier Management Partner provides dedicated specialist supplier management expertise across the Bank, supporting the effective management of third-party relationships throughout the supplier lifecycle. Working centrally within the Operational Resilience and Control function, the role coordinates and delivers the Bank's supplier management framework and activities, providing specialist expertise, oversight and practical support to Relationship Owners across areas including supplier onboarding, due diligence, ongoing oversight, contract management, renewals, supplier performance, risk management, commercial management and supplier spend. The role is responsible for maintaining the Bank's central view of supplier relationships, including contracts, renewals, spend, performance, risks, issues and actions. The role acts as the Bank's central point of expertise for supplier management, bringing consistency, structure and effective governance across supplier relationships. Relationship Owners within the first line remain accountable for supplier strategy, business requirements, service outcomes, supplier performance and key commercial decisions. The Supplier Management Partner provides specialist expertise, challenge, coordination and oversight to support Relationship Owners in discharging those responsibilities effectively. Requirements Supplier Lifecycle Management Relationship Management: Coordinate supplier management activity across the full lifecycle, including onboarding, due diligence, ongoing oversight, renewal and exit provisioning Act as the Bank's central supplier management specialist, providing guidance, coordination and challenge to Relationship Owners to support the effective discharge of their supplier management responsibilities Own and maintain the Bank's central supplier view, including supplier contracts, renewals, expenditure, performance measures, risks, issues, actions and key obligations, ensuring information remains accurate, complete and up to date Coordinate and track supplier management activities across the Bank, ensuring…