Job Specification: Supply Chain Risk Manager

Location: London, UK

Salary: £75,000 per annum

Background: Management Consulting / Strategy Consulting / Supply Chain Risk Advisory

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Supply Chain Risk professional with a strong consulting background to lead the identification, assessment, quantification and mitigation of strategic supply chain risks.

The successful candidate will bring a combination of commercial acumen, financial analytical capability and strategic supply chain expertise. They will work across procurement, operations, finance, risk management and business leadership to identify vulnerabilities, quantify potential financial exposure and develop resilient, cost-effective supply chain strategies.

The role will focus on moving beyond traditional supply chain risk assessment towards a financially quantified, forward-looking and scenario-driven approach to supply chain resilience.

Key Responsibilities

1. Supply Chain Risk Assessment & Due Diligence

• Lead comprehensive supply chain risk assessments across critical suppliers, categories, geographies and supply chain networks.
• Conduct supplier due diligence, assessing financial stability, operational resilience, geopolitical exposure, ESG considerations and business continuity capabilities.
• Evaluate supplier concentration, dependency risks, single-source exposure and critical supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Develop robust supplier risk profiles and segmentation frameworks.
• Identify emerging risks, including geopolitical instability, regulatory changes, inflation, commodity volatility and logistics disruption.
• Establish appropriate risk indicators, monitoring frameworks and early-warning mechanisms.

2. Financial Risk Quantification

• Develop methodologies to quantify the financial impact of supply chain disruptions.
• Assess potential exposure across revenue, gross margin, working capital, operating costs and capital expenditure.
• Model the financial implications of supplier failure, material shortages, production interruptions and logistics disruption.
• Develop risk-adjusted financial models, including probability-weighted loss assessments and potential cost-of-disruption scenarios.
• Translate complex supply chain risks into measurable financial exposure and business impact.
• Support senior leadership in prioritising risk mitigation investments based on financial materiality and return on investment.

3. Scenario Planning & Stress Testing

• Design and deliver supply chain scenario testing and stress-testing exercises.
• Develop plausible disruption scenarios covering geopolitical events, supplier insolvency, trade restrictions, cyber incidents, natural disasters and commodity price shocks.
• Conduct sensitivity analysis and assess the impact of simultaneous or cascading supply chain disruptions.
• Quantify financial and operational impacts under different disruption scenarios.
• Facilitate scenario workshops with senior stakeholders to test organisational preparedness and response capabilities.
• Develop practical mitigation strategies, contingency plans and resilience recommendations.

4. Supply Chain Redesign & Resilience

• Develop strategic recommendations to redesign supply chains to improve resilience, flexibility and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate alternative sourcing strategies, supplier diversification and dual-sourcing opportunities.
• Assess nearshoring, reshoring and regionalisation options.
• Optimise supplier footprints, inventory strategies and network configurations.
• Evaluate trade-offs between cost, service levels, resilience and working capital.
• Build business cases for supply chain transformation and resilience investment.
• Support implementation of strategic supply chain redesign initiatives.

5. Stakeholder Management & Consulting Delivery

• Act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, including Procurement Directors, CFOs, COOs and Chief Risk Officers.
• Lead complex consulting engagements and cross-functional transformation programmes.
• Develop executive-level presentations, strategic recommendations and investment business cases.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear commercial insights.
• Challenge existing assumptions and influence decision-making at senior leadership level.
• Manage multiple workstreams and deliver high-quality outputs within agreed timelines.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

• Approximately 5–8 years' experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, supply chain advisory, procurement transformation or enterprise risk.
• Strong consulting background, ideally with experience in a leading strategy or management consultancy.
• Demonstrable experience in supply chain risk management, supplier due diligence or strategic procurement.
• Experience developing financial models and quantifying commercial and operational risk exposure.
• Strong understanding of scenario analysis, stress testing and business continuity planning.
• Experience developing strategic supply chain transformation and redesign recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and presentation capabilities.

Desirable:

• Experience in financial services, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, consumer goods or other complex supply chain environments.
• Knowledge of geopolitical risk, third-party risk management and supplier financial health assessment.
• Experience with supply chain analytics, risk intelligence platforms and financial modelling tools.
• Relevant qualifications in supply chain management, procurement, finance, risk or business management.

Key Success Measures

The successful candidate will be measured against their ability to:

• Establish a robust view of critical supplier and supply chain exposure.
• Identify and quantify material financial risks across the supply chain.
• Deliver meaningful scenario testing and stress-testing capabilities.
• Develop actionable supply chain resilience and redesign strategies.
• Deliver measurable reductions in financial and operational risk exposure.
• Influence senior leadership and secure investment in priority mitigation initiatives.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a commercially minded consultant who combines strategic thinking with strong quantitative and analytical skills.

They will be comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed analytical levels, moving from supplier-level due diligence through to enterprise-wide financial risk modelling and supply chain redesign.

They should be able to challenge conventional thinking, influence senior stakeholders and turn complex risk insights into practical business decisions.



Salary: £75,000 per annum

Location: London