As a vital member of our leadership team, the Senior Manager, Third Party Management will play a critical role in ensuring compliance and governance across the Bank’s third-party partnerships and Material Service Providers.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Spearheading the governance framework for third-party relationships, ensuring adherence to APRA CPS 230 obligations and reinforcing compliance across all supplier and partner engagements.

• Leading strategic supplier and partner relationships to deliver strong commercial outcomes, operational resilience and customer value

• Driving contract governance, supplier performance and risk management practices in line with APRA CPS 230 obligations

• Identifying opportunities to improve supplier efficiency, optimise costs and strengthen third-party service delivery across the enterprise

• Leading enterprise-wide category management initiatives, including procurement strategies, vendor consolidation and commercial negotiations

• Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and aligning partnerships to business priorities

• Developing and leading a high-performing team focused on accountability, continuous improvement and operational excellence

Do things differently with us

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Significant experience in strategic partnership management, vendor governance, procurement or third-party risk management within a regulated environment

• In-depth knowledge of APRA CPS 230, operational resilience, and comprehensive supplier governance and risk management frameworks.

• Proven capability in contract negotiation, commercial management and supplier performance optimisation

• Experience leading category management strategies and delivering measurable cost and service improvements

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across senior leadership, risk, legal and external partners

• Demonstrated leadership capability with experience building high-performing, collaborative teams

Why Great Southern Bank?

Whatever your role with us, you’ll be part of a force for good. We’re owned by our customers right here in Australia, so our success benefits everyday people and families. Working at Great Southern Bank, you’ll also enjoy a range of fantastic benefits, some examples include:

• Helping you unlock a brighter future by investing in your development and wellbeing, offering you study leave, a day for you and professional wellbeing coaching.

• Benefits that support you and your wellbeing so that you can thrive at work and at home, today and tomorrow. Enjoy access to our wellbeing centre and the flexibility to work from home two days a week.

• Helping you to achieve your financial goals and positively impact your family and community. We offer discounts on a wide range of Great Southern Bank products and services such as savings and transaction accounts

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