Tusker Supplier Manager

End Date

Thursday 29 May 2025

Salary Range

£43,803 - £48,670

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Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked

Job Description Summary

Based in watford

Job Description

• JOB TITLE:Supplier Manager

• SALARY:£43,803 - £53,537

• LOCATION(S):Watford

• HOURS: Full-time

• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at leastthreedays per week, or60%of our time, at our Watford site. During the training period, we do ask new starters to be in the office 5 days a week until they are proficient and fully trained.

About this Opportunity

You'll be responsible for the performance and handling a portfolio of high volume, high spend suppliers engaged in the supply of vehicles, services, maintenance and repair services for Tusker and to be directly reporting into the Head of Vehicle Operations

You'll Lead on performance, contract management and driver experience activities on our suppliers impact, influence and be responsible for Delivery of the group wide supplier management strategy.

Understand the business requirements and build partnerships, utilising data, analysis and reporting to identify trends, and focussing on performance quality and continuous improvement to drive value and handle risk

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About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We’re an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We’re committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for Tusker car website for more information

What you’ll need

• A proven understanding of the automotive market, leasing and salary sacrifice industry and key market trends within it.

• In conjunction with day-to-day Tusker supplier relationship owners build strong commercial relationships with suppliers and key partners, actively practicing and promoting a quality customer service ethos, always putting the driver experience at the forefront of any decisions and processes.

• Experience of collaborating and working with all business partners and share contractual and performance information and metrics, across contracts and ensure LBG expectations are met or exceeded.

• Be able to identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems, procedures and supplier reporting or where these can be improvement and implement necessary changes.

• Ability to develops personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also mentoring others as required.

• Responsible for all key service supplier performance management and reporting to keep track of risk parameters and identifies and reports any major deviation to Head of Vehicle Operations, SLT and LBG Risk and Supplier functions.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Working together with LBG colleagues to identify, improve and complete Tusker Group performance reporting.

• Supports Tusker with aligning to Supplier Policy and Risk Framework requirements

• Undertake business related requirements as they arise from Tusker and LBG.

• Work alongside Group Supplier Network Managers and Tusker key partners to create the best cost position & customer outcomes to drive improvements

• Supporting tender processes required to appoint key suppliers.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose?

Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.