Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Risk Manager's Course on Building a Third-Party Risk Program When Vendor Count Outpaces Oversight

Turn chaotic vendor data into a repeatable risk workflow that satisfies auditors and frees your team for strategic work.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Your organization now juggles dozens of supplier questionnaires, scattered spreadsheets, and ad-hoc email threads. Every new contract triggers a scramble to locate contracts, extract risk scores, and file evidence, while the compliance team chases missing signatures.

The tooling is a patchwork of shared drives, manual checklists, and occasional SaaS tools that never talk to each other. When an audit request lands, you waste hours reconciling versions, and senior leadership questions whether the risk program can keep pace with rapid vendor expansion.

If this continues, missed controls could lead to regulatory fines, supply-chain disruptions, and loss of stakeholder confidence, turning a manageable risk function into a crisis engine.

What you walk away with

Create a unified vendor risk register that updates automatically from questionnaire inputs.
Run a quarterly risk review meeting with documented decisions and clear action owners.
Produce audit-ready evidence packs in under two hours per review cycle.
Apply a risk scoring matrix that aligns with business impact and likelihood thresholds.
Establish a continuous monitoring cadence that surfaces changes before they become incidents.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping the Current Vendor Landscape

Identify all active suppliers and locate existing risk artifacts.

Module 2. Designing a Standardized Questionnaire

Build a repeatable questionnaire that captures critical risk data.

Module 3. Aggregating Data into a Central Register

Consolidate responses into a single, searchable risk register.

Module 4. Scoring Risks with a Business-Aligned Matrix

Apply a scoring model that reflects financial and operational impact.

Module 5. Prioritizing Remediation Actions

Rank vendors by risk score and assign remediation owners.

Module 6. Building an Evidence Pack for Audits

Assemble required documents and controls evidence in a ready-to-submit format.

Module 7. Running Quarterly Risk Review Meetings

Facilitate structured reviews with documented decisions and RACI assignments.

Module 8. Implementing Continuous Monitoring Triggers

Set up alerts for contract changes, security incidents, and rating updates.

Module 9. Communicating Risk to Leadership

Create concise dashboards that translate risk scores into business language.

Module 10. Embedding the Process into Existing Tools

Integrate the workflow with your current collaboration and ticketing platforms.

Module 11. Testing and Refining the Program

Run mock audits to validate evidence completeness and process efficiency.

Module 12. Sustaining the Program Over Time

Establish governance rituals to keep the register current and the team accountable.

What you get with this course

A step-by-step implementation playbook.
A standardized third-party questionnaire template.
A pre-populated risk register spreadsheet with 40 example entries.
A risk scoring matrix worksheet.
A quarterly review meeting agenda and minutes template.
An audit evidence pack checklist.
A continuous monitoring trigger guide.
A leadership dashboard mock-up.
A RACI table for remediation ownership.
A mock audit runbook.
A change-log intake form.
A post-implementation scorecard.

Before and after

Before

You currently maintain vendor information in separate shared folders, email threads, and a few outdated spreadsheets. Evidence lives in scattered PDFs, and when auditors request proof, you scramble to locate the right file, often missing deadlines. The team loses time reconciling duplicate data and leadership receives vague risk summaries.

After

After the course, all vendor data resides in a single, searchable risk register with automated scores. Quarterly review meetings run on a fixed agenda, and audit evidence packs are generated with a click. Leadership sees clear risk dashboards, and the team spends minutes, not days, preparing for audits.

Who it is for

A risk professional who owns the third-party risk lifecycle, spends most of the week consolidating vendor data, coordinating questionnaires, and fielding audit requests, and needs a systematic method to turn chaotic inputs into a governed, repeatable process.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to what third-party risk management is.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week, saving an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant on the same scope typically costs $2K-$5K, a generic compliance certification runs $800-$2K, and DIYing the program eats 60+ hours. At $199 you get a complete, repeatable method and ready-made artefacts that deliver faster, cheaper, and with higher quality.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with risk frameworks to benefit from this course?

No, the modules start with mapping your current state and build a practical program step by step.

Will the course cover how to choose a questionnaire tool?

The focus is on the questionnaire content and integration, not on vendor tool selection.

Can I apply this to existing contracts that are already in the system?

Yes, the first module shows how to import and reconcile legacy data into the new register.

What support is available if I get stuck on a module?

You get access to a private community forum and a weekly live Q&A where instructors answer specific implementation questions.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.