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Who owns vendor renewals? A decision table

The single biggest cause of lapsed vendor documents is 'someone else's job'. A short decision table fixes that for good.

3 min read Updated 1 July 2026

The default assignment

Document / eventPrimary ownerSecondary
Public / employers' liabilityOperationsCompliance
Professional indemnityLegal / OpsFinance
ISO 27001 / SOC 2Security / ITCompliance
Filed accounts / creditFinanceProcurement
DPA / sub-processor listLegalSecurity
Bank details changeFinanceProcurement
Tier reassessmentProcurementCompliance

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In small teams, one person often wears three of these hats, that's fine. What matters is that every document has a name attached, not a team.

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