Supplier Management Specialist

Overview

In this role you drive and embed Supplier Management and Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) across easyJet. You’ll act as the central contact for supplier-related activity, enabling efficient onboarding, lifecycle management, and risk oversight. You’ll ensure the Ivalua platform is action-oriented, with clear processes and timely workflows. You’ll partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance and Finance to deliver sustainable vendor risk management and continuous improvement. This is a chance to shape how suppliers enable business growth at scale in a fast-paced airline environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Up to 20% bonus
• 7% pension contributions
• Excellent staff travel benefits
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Annual holiday credit
• Flexible benefits and extras

Responsibilities

• Act as the central point of contact for day-to-day Supplier Management activity
• Support onboarding, lifecycle management, performance processes, data and reporting
• Promote consistent use of Supplier Management processes across the business
• Identify inefficiencies and implement practical improvements
• Mobilise TPRM through testing, documentation, training and rollout
• Own operational execution of TPRM as capability matures
• Support supplier risk identification, due diligence, onboarding, monitoring and review
• Maintain visibility of supplier risk exposure and escalate as needed
• Operate day-to-day Supplier Management within Ivalua
• Monitor risk workflows, dashboards and alerts and ensure timely actions
• Follow up on overdue actions and resolve issues
• Escalate material concerns and drive corrective action
• Triage complex issues with Legal, Risk and Compliance
• Track recurring issues and address root causes
• Produce operational reporting for leadership and decision-making
• Deliver role-based training and onboarding for new users
• Create accessible guidance for Ivalua usage and BAU activities
• Continuously improve processes, data and ways of working

Key requirements

• Experience in Supplier Management, Procurement Operations or similar
• Experience using supplier management or procurement systems
• Knowledge of Ivalua an advantage
• Strong understanding of delivering operational processes at scale
• Experience as a business-facing subject matter expert or single point of contact
• Practical problem-solving and ability to implement solutions
• Ability to create accountability and drive completion of actions
• Adaptability in an evolving process environment
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Analytical and detail-focused with ability to translate data into actions
• Collaborative mindset to build trust across Procurement and the wider business
• Relevant practical experience
• Academic qualification not required
• CIPS or equivalent desirable but not essential

• stakeholder management
• communication
• analytical thinking
• Ivalua
• supplier management systems
• procurement systems

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