Job Description

Job description:
Title Contractor - Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) Assurance Manager
Department - Global procurement
Location - Gurgaon, India
Reports to - Third Party Risk Management - Senior Manager
About your team:
Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) is a function which sits within the Global Procurement team.
The TPRM team is a new function within Global Procurement with an objective of establishing a
new first Line of Defense (1LOD) risk management function which will set the TPRM strategy for
CLIENT to provide assurance that CLIENT\xe2\x80\x99s supply chain risk is managed and overseen by each
responsible Business Unit. These TPRM function will establish routines which are in line with the
requirements set by Group Risk as part of the CLIENT Three Lines of Defense (3LOD) risk
management framework and will work in collaboration with the Global Procurements\xe2\x80\x99 Second Line
of Defense (2LOD).
About your role:
The TPRM Assurance Manager will report to the TPRM Senior Manager, is a new role located in
India. The TPRM Assurance Manager is responsible for executing 1LOD TPRM assurance framework
activities to support new third-party supplier onboarding assurance activities to business units with
a detailed knowledge on how all TPRM risks identified impact each business unit. The TPRM
Assurance Manager will also execute the onboarding inherent risk assessment Quality Assurance
(QA) reviews re all risk assessments submitted reflect the risk and criticality ratings pertaining to
the services being procured via the third party.
The TPRM Assurance Manager will collaborate closely with the CLIENT \xe2\x80\x9cRisk SME\xe2\x80\x9d & Supplier
Relationship Manager communities, to ensure their third-party portfolio residual risks are identified
and reported, with clear remediation actions tracked in line with risk SME appetite.
The TPRM Assurance Manager will also agree with Risk SME\xe2\x80\x99s annual Assurance testing renewal
schedule for existing third parties and schedule assessments in line with the assurance framework
with each 1LOD business area.
The TPRM Assurance Manager will be a strong communicator (both written and verbal) to issue,
discuss and agree assurance assessment results and gaps and remediation actions required to
reduce risk to CLIENT.
The TPRM Assurance Manager will be curious, brave and compassionate when working with third
party suppliers, business requestors and SRM\xe2\x80\x99s alike to ensure the objectives of the assurance
framework are delivered, ensuring CLIENT has a complete assessment of third-party risk when
onboarding new third parties to CLIENT\xe2\x80\x99s existing portfolio and assessing existing third-party
suppliers.The TPRM Assurance Manager will work closely with the Head of TPRM, the TPRM Senior Manager,
Risk SME & SRM Leads as well as other Global Procurement management team members as the
new TPRM function evolves and matures across CLIENT.Key Responsibilities
The TPRM Assurance Manager will have the following responsibilities.

• Facilitate and manage the TPRM Assurance framework workflow process in Process Unity,

become the SME expert on third party assurance processes.

• Be a single point of contact for third party suppliers, business requestors and SRM\xe2\x80\x99s with

their TPRM assurance assessments in the Process Unity processes.

• Liaise with respective Risk SME groups on understanding outputs on assurance

questionnaire for each risk domain when required.

• Escalate ABC and ESR assessments to the respective ESR and ABC teams for escalation or

completion.

• Complete the TPRM assurance workflow process in Process Unity by providing risk insight

and TPRM assurance report which summarizes the assurance findings and any issues and
actions to remediate.

• Analyze TPRM assurance reporting to determine portfolio risks and have a routine with SRM

Leads to share their TPRM assurance summary reports (a high-level view of risk sme risks,
overall DDQ risk rating, comments and issues at supplier and portfolio level)

• Play a key contributor role in determining new TPRM / Assurance processes across all

stakeholder groups.

• Establish TPRM assurance routines with SRM\xe2\x80\x99s and Risk SMEs to ensure the TPRM tactical

and strategic objectives are understood and adopted.

• Present Risk SME analysis to drive residual risk awareness across each Risk SME group and

Business function.

• Contribute and drive TPRM framework and policy design activities.
• Remain fully aware of key risk, compliance and regulatory impacts of the Third-Party

Management Lifecycle, and their impacts to CLIENT across all regulatory jurisdictions.About you:

• A working background in Supplier / Third Party Risk Management is essential for this role.
• It is essential the role holder has working experience of working within an Enterprise Risk

Management framework model within their organization with sound knowledge of the 3LOD
Risk Management model.

• It is essential for the role holder to be able to independently manage and present to a senior

and diverse group of Risk SME stakeholders.

• It is desirable for the role holder to have a deep knowledge of TPRM tools and end to end

procurement processes.

• It is desirable for the experience to be as part of a TPRM Assurance, Risk Assessment, Due

Diligence function, but not essential.

• It is essential to be an advanced user of MS Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Visio

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