Technology Partner Manager

Job Description

Salary & Employment

Salary: £73,824.00 – £84,801.00 GBP. Annual Pension: A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Please refer to the Civil Service Pensions website for more information. Type: Full time.

Notice: The advert will close at 11:59PM the night before the listed closing date.

SLC offers a blended working model, typically 2 days in the office and 3 days from home.

Company Overview

Student Loans Company is a non profit, government owned organisation that provides loans and grants to students in universities and colleges across the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.

About the Role

As a Technology Partner Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how SLC collaborates with its strategic technology partners. You’ll help drive the implementation of the Target Operating Model across Technology & Security (T&S) and Digital & Data (D&D), ensuring partner delivery models are aligned, integrated and optimised to support enterprise wide outcomes. Acting as a key influencer and change agent, you will shift the organisation from transactional supplier management to a strategic, partner led approach that delivers innovation, value and long term service improvement. You will provide oversight across the technology supplier ecosystem-covering governance, performance, risk and value realisation-while ensuring effective collaboration between SLC leadership teams and partners. This includes assuring partner led change, supporting service transition, and enabling modernisation and transformation programmes across the organisation.

What you bring

• Demonstrable experience delivering technology change in complex organisations, ideally involving IT operating model transformation.
• Experience leading service integration activity across multiple suppliers and delivery models, including partner led environments.
• Demonstrable ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive operating model change through collaborative partnerships.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and contracts within a public sector or regulated environment.
• Demonstrable analytical skills, with the ability to interpret performance and management information to drive improvement.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills across internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable critical thinking and problem solving capability, with a pragmatic approach to delivering change.
• Experience contributing to or operating within an Intelligent Client Function or equivalent governance model.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays.
• Option to buy/sell annual leave.
• Flexi time and enhanced flexible working options available.
• Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme.
• Life insurance cover for 4 annual salary.
• Enhanced company sick pay and family leave, including maternity, paternity and adoption.
• Contributory lifestyle benefits: discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and optional dental insurance.
• SLC Career Pathways development programme.

Legal & Compliance

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If offered the role, background checks-including employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check-will be conducted before you start.

Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion

As a proud Disability Confident Leader, SLC is committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience that empowers people of all abilities. We actively promote accessible hiring practices and support candidates with disabilities throughout their employment journey to build a diverse and equitable workplace. SLC will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Candidates may request reasonable adjustments; for more details please email .

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