Vendor and Regulatory Compliance Manager

• Enjoy work-life balance with flexible working options
• Join a company that fosters a culture of respect, resourcefulness, and inclusivity
• Sydney CBD location with free on-site gym

Why join us?

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do.

At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be.

We have a permanent opportunity available at TAL as a Vendor and Regulatory Compliance Manager to join our Procurement, Property and Facilities team. In this role you will be responsible for overseeing the full supplier lifecycle, managing third-party risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance within the procurement function.

Acting as a trusted advisor, this role works closely with internal stakeholders and shared services like Legal, Risk, and Cyber to support supplier agreements and contract variations. This includes; implementing governance plans that enhance customer experience, manage costs, and reduce risks, while maintaining procurement processes that meet regulatory standards.

In this role you will:

• Supporting procurement policies and procedures that address TAL’s risk and regulatory framework
• Support in the development and delivery of process training and instructional documentation to ensure understanding of compliance obligations across the business and taking the lead in updating these artefacts
• Support with procurement reporting and contributing towards the continuous improvement
• Identify and assess supplier risks, working with business stakeholders and shared services to mitigate those risks
• Support implementation and management of Vendor Governance Framework across TAL
• Effectively support the business to deal with vendor operational contract enquiries, issues, disputes, variations, risks and undertaking negotiations with vendors as required
• Assist in developing and establishing procurement best practice for related projects and act as a custodian of the procurement process
• Supporting ad-hoc request from business stakeholders and shared services (e.g., Risk, Legal) to support business decision making and undertake some projects

• Strong working experience in operations to include vendor management, procurement, contract negotiations and risk
• Proven ability to manage large enterprise supplier relationships, including onboarding, vendor management, contracting, sourcing, and risk management.
• Skilled in negotiating and managing contracts with stakeholders, vendors, and suppliers to identify and reduce supplier risks
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service, and written and verbal communication skills
• Financial management and reporting skills
• Proficient user in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Outlook
• Experience using PowerBI

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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