Senior Third-Party Risk Management Consultant - 2-Year Engagement

**Location:** remote. **Years of Experience:** 8-10 years. **Project Duration:** 2 years. **Language Requirements:** Fluency in Arabic & English (written and spoken). We are seeking a Senior Third-Party Risk Management Consultant to assess and manage risks across the full vendor lifecycle, from onboarding and due diligence through ongoing monitoring and offboarding. The consultant will evaluate third-party cybersecurity, technology, operational, privacy, compliance, and resilience risks; track findings and remediation; and help strengthen TPRM frameworks and reporting. The role involves working closely with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, compliance, and business teams to support informed vendor decisions. ## Key Requirements - Strong experience in **third-party risk management (TPRM)**, including vendor due diligence, inherent and residual risk assessments, and risk-based reviews throughout the vendor lifecycle. - Experience assessing **cybersecurity, technology, operational, compliance, privacy, and business continuity risks** associated with third parties. - Ability to evaluate vendor security controls using assessment responses, supporting evidence, audit reports, certifications, and independent assurance reports. - Experience managing **vendor risk registers, findings, remediation plans, risk acceptance, and exceptions**. - Knowledge of risks associated with **cloud services, SaaS platforms, managed services, and other technology providers**, including concentration and fourth-party risk. - Experience assessing third-party **business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience** capabilities. - Familiarity with contractual risk requirements, including security clauses, SLAs, data protection obligations, audit rights, and incident notification. - Experience developing or improving **TPRM frameworks, procedures, assessment methodologies, and reporting**. - Knowledge of applicable **NCA controls, privacy requirements, cybersecurity standards, and vendor risk regulations**. ## Key Responsibilities - Support the planning and execution of Third-Party Risk Management engagements in alignment with project objectives, methodologies, and delivery timelines. - Conduct inherent and residual risk assessments for third parties, vendors, service providers, partners, and outsourced services across customer's business and technology landscape. - Perform risk-based due diligence reviews for new and existing third-party engagements to identify cybersecurity, technology, operational, compliance, privacy, and business continuity risks. - Evaluate third-party security controls, governance practices, and compliance posture against customer requirements, regulatory obligations, and industry standards. - Review vendor assessment responses, supporting evidence, audit reports, certifications, and independent assurance reports to validate control eUectiveness. - Assess third-party compliance with applicable requirements, including contractual obligations, information security requirements, NCA controls, privacy requirements, and internal policies. - Facilitate vendor risk assessments throughout the third-party lifecycle, including onboarding, periodic reassessments, contract renewals, significant changes, and oUboarding activities. - Identify, document, and assess third-party risks associated with cloud services, managed services, SaaS platforms, telecommunications providers, and strategic technology partners. - Evaluate concentration risk, dependency risk, fourth-party risk, and critical supplier exposure to support resilience and supply chain risk management objectives. - Collaborate with procurement, legal, cybersecurity, compliance, privacy, and business stakeholders to ensure comprehensive vendor risk evaluations. - Develop and maintain third-party risk registers, assessment records, risk exceptions, remediation plans, and supporting governance documentation. - Track identified findings, remediation actions, and risk treatment plans, ensuring timely closure of vendor-related risks and control gaps. - Facilitate third-party risk acceptance and exception processes, including risk impact analysis, compensating control reviews, stakeholder coordination, and approval workflows. - Perform ongoing monitoring of critical and high-risk vendors through periodic reviews, risk indicators, security alerts, performance metrics, and emerging threat assessments. - Assess third-party business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience capabilities to ensure alignment with customer recovery requirements and service expectations. - Review contractual security and risk requirements, including security clauses, service level agreements (SLAs), data protection obligations, audit rights, and incident notification requirements. - Support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of Third-Party Risk Management frameworks, methodologies, procedures, standards, and assessment templates. - Analyze vendor risk trends, assessment outcomes, and risk exposures to provide actionable insights and recommendations for management decision-making. - Prepare management reports, dashboards, risk metrics, and executive presentations highlighting vendor risk posture, assessment status, critical findings, and remediation progress. - Promote awareness and adoption of Third-Party Risk Management requirements across business units and relevant stakeholder groups. - Ensure alignment with customer policies, regulatory requirements, and industry frameworks related to vendor risk management, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and supply chain security. --- If you would like to know more about the **Global Consulting Bootcamp** Visit: If you would like to know more about the **MC Club** Visit: