Job Description

Basic information

Location

London

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Date published

15-May-2025

Req #

18894
Job description

Connect to your Industry

Deloitte's leading Extended Enterprise (EE) team helps clients maximise revenue, mitigate risks, and strengthen relationships across their supply chain.


Deloitte's Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain capability sits across its Risk Advisory practice and helps clients build and implement sustainable and resilient supply chain strategies that drive business value and reduce risk. Our team of experts works with clients to identify and mitigate sustainability risks, improve supply chain transparency, and drive innovation across the value chain.


We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Supply Chain Sustainability Expert to join our team and help our clients achieve their sustainability goals, in particular to help them engage with their suppliers and business partners to collaborate and drive impact across the value chain.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.


What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we

lead the way

,

serve with integrity

,

take care of each other

,

foster inclusion

, and

collaborate for measurable impact

. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

When you join Extended Enterprise, you will see how we work with some of the largest organisations in the world, across a variety of industries. Our client list includes major organisations in banking, capital markets, insurance and investment management, as well as technology, mining, media, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, public sector and consumer goods including retail, automotive, hospitality and services sectors.


The engagements you lead will require you to utilise your prior knowledge and experience to assist clients in designing or refining their TPRM frameworks and / or approach to sustainable supply chain and capabilities addressing factors such as:

Demonstrating alignment with the wide range of third-party and supply chain risks and regulations which our clients and their third-parties need to manage; Identifying the wide range of different third party and supply chain risks and commitments an organisation may face across different industries, including relating to anti-bribery, sanctions, human rights, ethics and sustainability in the supply chain including relating to decarbonisation, business resilience, cyber risk and data privacy; Helping clients bring automation and Generative AI based solutions to achieve efficiency in their TPRM and supply chain management programmes. Understanding and identifying appropriate technology and operating model solutions for a range of challenges related to their supply chains. This might include traceability solutions, digital product passport solutions, risk intelligence tooling and GenAI solutions to our clients' supply chain risk and TPRM challenges; Exploring the drivers which influence and affect behaviours of business partners, suppliers and customers; and Enhancing and embedding the operational processes and controls required by an organisation to effectively monitor its third party relationships.

In addition, you will build an understanding of how to balance engagement risk and engagement economics alongside managing engagement teams to deliver optimal outcomes for our clients.


You will be responsible for pioneering new capabilities and ways of working in the team, and helping to bring new ideas and solutions to our client offerings. You will drive new opportunities and marketplace activities, as well as leading proposals and winning new work. This will be a market facing role, and you will work with the Directors and Partners in the team to grow the business.


You will be a flexible team member who is willing and excited to dive in to a wide range of activities and different types of project.


Finally, you will work with peers and more junior team members to develop new capabilities across the team and take a role in leading junior colleagues across client engagements as well as proposals and eminence activities.


A typical EE advisory engagement will involve:


Advisory engagements usually involve working as part of a small team (typically 2-5 people) to embed yourselves for a fixed period of time alongside a team of client stakeholders and work collaboratively to deliver positive, high value programmes of change / improvement for our clients. They require a high degree of stakeholder management and change management activity as well as strong governance and project management. The key phases of an advisory engagement usually include benchmarking existing capability, designing, and developing an enhanced capability, establishing or implementing that enhanced capability and supporting the client to adopt and embed the new way of working. Advisory engagements can range in duration from 6-8 weeks for the smaller programmes through to 6-12 months for the larger programmes.


In addition, we often subsequently support our clients with implementation, technology enablement and operation of their TPRM and Supply Chain Risk programmes. Our 'operate' capability includes a range of innovative solutions that we offer to our clients to help them deliver their TPRM programmes, including supply chain risk intelligence, integrity due diligence, outsourced risk assessment managed services and third party risk monitoring programmes. Each of these programmes are different in nature and require team members to think flexibly and independently, with a high focus on problem solving for our clients to help manage their most complex supply chain risk challenges.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

A successful individual will demonstrate the following behaviours, capabilities, and experience:

Significant experience working in the area of Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and / or Supply Chain, with experience in Industrials, Energy & Resources, Consumer Goods or other manufacturing sectors.. A track record of delivering TPRM / Supply Chain related client transformations in a consulting role, or working within teams or functions in an 'in-house' role is preferred. Experience of the process and methodologies of performing due diligence on third parties, and linking this to the end to end TPRM or Supply Chain processes. A strong understanding of the UK and EU regulations associated with Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Management as well as Supply Chain (e.g. CSDDD, EUDR etc). Experience delivering supply chain traceability / network mapping programmes and a strong understanding of supply chain intelligence solutions is advantageous but not mandatory. A strong understanding or experience of TPRM and Supply Chain technologies and how they can be used to bring efficiency and operational effectiveness to clients' TPRM programmes, including utilisation of GenAI where appropriate. This might include traceability solutions. Highly organised individual with strong attention to detail and able to manage their own workload and to delegate effectively. Strong communication, presentation and English writing skills, including strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Word and Excel. Critical analytical and problem-solving skills are a must and the ability to make decisions logically and confidently. You will be confident to dive in to new challenges and willing to get stuck in, in working in new areas. Strong ability to build professional relationships and rapport across our Extended Enterprise team and its clients. Supporting the leadership of the team will be a key part of this role.Strong communication skills, written and verbal, both internally and externally with clients and third parties, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively at senior management levels both in the pursuit of winning new work and delivering complex projects.

Working with EE provides a mixture of working in the office, client sites and visiting third parties' premises, which provides variety and a well-rounded mix of work environments. The EE team value a healthy work-life balance, and provide ample opportunity to socialise with other members of the team across grades.


Qualifications and Experience:

A Bachelors or Master's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject is preferred but not critical.

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Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"I'm surrounded by an endless network of support and mentorship, with great opportunities to get involved in areas that interest me. In my experience as a woman in this industry, it's exciting to see the field evolving and I'm proud to be contributing to its growth and development."


- Fiona, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.


At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.


We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.


Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.


Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers


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