Graduate Supplier Relationship Consultant - Horsham

Are you a graduate looking for a rewarding career in financial services?

We’re looking for those of you who are excited by a challenge and ready to make an impact in our business. If you’re self-motivated, curious, and determined then the RSA Bright Futures Graduate Programme ensures you develop a successful career start.

As a regulated organisation, we must demonstrate our business is robust, and services to our customers don’t cause any unnecessary stress or financial burdens. This exciting new role sits within our operational resilience programme team, they examine how we deliver our products and services and pro-actively look to mitigate risks and provide solutions to things that could go wrong – before they do.

As the supplier relationship consultant within the team, you will be co-ordinating, analysing and evaluating supplier data to assess any potential risks, challenges, or concerns to our business and or/customers.

Role Requirements

Our unique Graduate programme supports you in achieving your full potential whilst giving you access to excellent benefits as part of your career development, including:

• A dedicated RSA business mentor
• A comprehensive 3-year development plan which focuses on accelerating your growth
• Facilitated learning & development interventions supported by guest speaker sessions
• Quarterly networking and community events with fellow Early Careers cohorts
• Sessions on supporting your well-being and emotional fitness
• Annual volunteering days as part of the programme’s giving back pledge

Responsibilities

We’re more than just a corporate culture - and this is more than just a job, so we will support you to:

• Work collaboratively with the wider operational resilience team and assist in the development of our supplier resilience standards to determine a benchmark for all suppliers
• Assist the Third-Party Resilience Manager with the collation of supplier data to evaluate their services, processes, and practices
• Build strong relationships with several departments within RSA to ensure a consistent approach is taken across the business in terms of supplier evaluations
• Develop exit plans for suppliers that cause us a concern, or we part relationships with

The Individual

We want your individualism, capability, and ambition to shine through. If you have a zest for learning and a willingness to invest time to become an expert in this exciting team, then that’s a real advantage.

You will need to have achieved at least a 2.2 bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) ideally in a business or risk focussed subject.

The best skills and attributes to have for this role are:

• A solutions-driven mind set focussed on achieving the best outcome to support RSA to outperformance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective relationships
• Well organised and comfortable to work independently as well as part of a team
• An eye for detail with an analytical flair

If this is the challenge you’ve been waiting for, start your RSA journey here.

About Us

A welcoming, diverse, and inclusive culture is an important element for RSA in our best-in-class ambition. RSA thrives when everyone feels comfortable bringing their best self to work. We have a diverse mix of customers, and we want our employee base to reflect that. We celebrate difference, whilst striving to create an environment where colleagues feel respected and valued for their unique potential.

Our commitment to diversity is sincere, continually growing and led right from the top. RSA takes pride in being accessible to all. We welcome applications regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, race, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, or social class. We encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves and harness the power of our diversity.

If you require flexibility in when, where, or how you work, we’d love to hear from you. We also want to ensure that you are supported throughout the application process to enable you to be at your best. If you require adjustments during your application process, please flag this on your application form.

Our Values:

Integrity: Be honest, open, and fair. Set high standards. Stand up for what is right. Respect: Be kind. See diversity as a strength. Be inclusive and collaborate

Customer Driven: Listen to our customers. Make it easy, find solutions. Deliver second-to-none experiences.

Excellence: Act with discipline and drive to outperform. Embrace change, improve every day. Celebrate success yet remain humble

Generosity: Help others. Protect the environment. Make our communities more resilient

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