RAM Third Party Oversight Manager

At Rathbones we help people invest their money well so they can live well. That means more than financial returns its about helping people feel confident in their decisions and supported in their future. We dont just manage money we guide people through lifes big moments helping them stay on track and focus on what matters most.

Were proud to be one of the UKs leading wealth managers with over 109bn* in assets under management and 20 offices across the UK and Channel Islands. Were a FTSE 250 company with national reach and a local feel and were growing.
*As of June 2025

Role Title: Third-Party Oversight Manager

Division: Rathbones Asset Management (RAM)

Location: London/ Liverpool

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

In this high-impact role youll take ownership of Rathbones Asset Managements supplier landscape ensuring the partners we rely on deliver consistently strong outcomes for our clients and business. Acting as the first line of oversight youll shape and operate a risk-based supplier governance framework making sure our most critical providers are managed with the right level of rigour control and insight.

Youll play a pivotal role in strengthening how we work with our suppliers from onboarding and governance through to performance risk management and continuous improvement giving you real visibility influence and the opportunity to drive meaningful change across the organisation.

What youll be responsible for

Supplier ownership and oversight

• Own the daytoday internal and non-material external supplier relationships including performance service quality incidents and remediation.
• Design and operate a criticalitybased supplier oversight framework ensuring proportional governance controls and reporting.
• Establish and maintain a clear supplier ownership model defining relationship owners operational owners and escalation routes.

CAMMs and Supplier Inventory

• Maintain an accurate supplier inventory in CAMMs including supplier criticality and rationale ownership and governance routing services provided and dependencies and SLA/KPI and attestation requirements.

SLA performance and control assurance

• Monitor and manage SLA/KPI performance ensuring regular performance reviews clear issue tracking and rootcause analysis and timely remediation and escalation of persistent issues

• Define request and review supplier attestations ensuring evidence is complete challenged where required and actions tracked to closure.

Supplier Onboarding

• Own the endtoend onboarding of new suppliers ensuring criticality and risk assessment is completed ownership and governance are established and SLAs reporting and escalation routes are in place.

Governance and reporting

• Provide concise decisionfocused reporting to the Outsourcing Governance Committee covering supplier inventory and onboarding performance and SLA outcomes attestations and .key themes and incidents risks and remediation progress

• Escalate material supplier risks control gaps and service failures in line with governance expectations.

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role we encourage you to apply

• Experience in supplier management outsourcing oversight or vendor governance in a regulated environment.
• Strong experience managing SLAs performance reviews and service remediation.
• Strong stakeholder management and clear written communication skills.
• Ability to run a controlfocused oversight model with a clear evidence trail.
• Ability to think logically through complex problems.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Good attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good organisational and time management skills.

Our offer to you

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong.

We offer a comprehensive remuneration package which we review regularly and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%
• Private medical insurance Individual on joining family after 1 years service
• Life assurance - 8 x salary
• Income protection 75 % salary
• Company share scheme
• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible holidays purchase up to 5 additional days
• Green Car Scheme
• Family friendly policies enhanced family leave for parents & carers
• Study support study days and funding for courses and qualifications
• Season travel ticket loans
• Volunteering days
• Gym discounts
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing growth development and sense of include:

• Sports & Social Committees such as cricket football netball running yoga quiz nights charity bake sales and much more.
• Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance Multicultural Abilities Count Pride Social Mobility Generations Menopause and Armed Forces.
• The NextGen IM Network which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse equal and inclusive workplace that motivates develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones we provide meaningful work opportunities and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values.

Were a Disability Confident Employer (level 2) under the UK Government scheme. This means weve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online click here. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones please contact us via to let us know what adjustments you may need.

Mission

We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results earning trust and doing the right thing for our clients our colleagues and the communities were part of.

Our values shape how we work:
- We aim high
- We get it done
- We show we care
- We do the right thing

These arent just words on a wall. They guide how we treat each other how we make decisions and how we build relationships that last.

We will close this advert once we have received enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure you dont miss out.