Lead, Vendor Governance

1 month ago

Toronto, Canada OMERS Full time

Referred applicants should NOT apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current OMERS and Oxford employee, and then must apply through the unique link received via their email.

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The Lead, Third Party Risk Management is responsible for the newly-formalized Vendor Governance Program (Third Party Risk Management) within OMERS in collaboration with key stakeholders, including Business Process Owners, Sourcing, Finance, Data & Technology, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Internal Audit and Risk. This individual will oversee the process end-to-end; contributing to due-diligence and risk assessment during onboarding, oversee requirements of vendor monitoring and support vendor offboarding. The successful candidate for this role will be part of a dynamic multi-discipline Procurement team focused on maximizing value from OMERS vendor portfolio while managing third-party risk.

The Lead, Third Party Risk Management reports to the Director, Vendor Governance and Procurement Operations within OMERS Corporate Finance team, and will focus on safeguarding OMERS through design and implementation of strong third party risk management and monitoring practices.

This role will be primarily responsible for:

Responsible in executing the day-to-day activities associated to the Vendor Governance framework such as reviewing all vendor engagements, executing vendor due-diligence activities, assessing vendor risk and ensuring the process abides to our policy. Your input to the process will ensure high data quality, completeness of vendor risk records and that our clients understand potential risk being introduced with new 3rd parties

Execute all ongoing monitor activities, post vendor contracting, to ensure the vendor doesn’t introduce new risk to OMERS after it has been onboarding. This phase of the framework requires collaboration with the extended risk domains and includes activities such as the reassessment of risk, attestation reviews and SOC report reviews.

Responsible for executing the SOC report review process by engaging with and supporting Business Process Owners and conducting attestation report (e.g. SOC 2) reviews for high risk vendors

The point of contact for all matters related to Vendor Governance inclusive of the process, artifacts, reporting, risk domain relationship and associated projects

Contribute in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of all phases of the framework in alignment with the overall OMERS Vendor Governance Program, policies, guidelines and Procedures.

Engaging and supporting Business Process Owners in the execution of their respective tasks within the Vendor Governance Program

Coaching, training and subject matter expertise for Business Process Owners on the Vendor Governance Program, including development of training and support materials and resources

Responsible for the centralization and the creation of Vendor risk memo for high risk vendors

Coordinating incident & exception identification, reporting, response and mitigation, including escalation and communication, and risk mitigation plans and strategies

Perform analysis, KRI reporting and process reviews to ensure all activities abide to the policies

Coordinating with key cross-functional stakeholders, including Internal Audit, in reviews and evaluation of the Vendor Governance program

Building strong partnerships and relationships with business partners and key vendor risk stakeholders including Finance, Data & Technology, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Internal Audit and Risk

Developing strong relationships with third-party risk management peers

To succeed in this role, you have

3-5 years’ experience in equivalent third-party risk management roles

Experience in reviewing and evaluating attestation reports (e.g. SOC report reviews) and follow up on exceptions and issues

Experience in complex, diverse, corporate business environments collaborating with cross-discipline teams

Experience in Vendor Management

Strong understanding of supply chain risk processes and controls

Post-secondary business degree or equivalent experience and qualifications

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

And you demonstrate

A people-first focus with a desire to develop meaningful, trusting relationships across all levels

A teammate mentality coupled with servant leadership

A sense of urgency, optimism, and a desire to deliver excellence

A desire to drive debate, to speak candidly and to listen empathetically

Strong orientation towards strategy, change and results

Existing application environment

Process Unity platform

Oracle Cloud ERP

Refinitiv WorldCheck-One

Contract Lifecycle Management system: Sirion

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From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our committee and employee recognition programs.

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