Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Manager

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Manager - Insurance

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Manager

Insurance

Birmingham/Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)

Permanent

Up to £90,000 per annum + benefits + bonus

Financial Services/Insurance experience highly desirable!

Operational Resilience - Business Continuity - Insurance - Regulations - Solutions - Principles - Insurance - London Market - Hybrid

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Operational Resilience and Business Continuity Manager ideally with previous Insurance/Financial Services experience to join a leading Specialist Insurer and take responsibility for implementation of the Operational Resilience regulatory requirements in all regions and platforms that my client operates.

You will lead on all aspects of Operational Resilience and Business Continuity across the business, ensuring that resilience-by-design principles are Embedded across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• With relevant stakeholders, develop and own the Operational Resilience and Business Continuity strategy, ensuring that the appropriate practices and framework are implemented and reviewed on an ongoing basis.
• Run the process to monitor resilience of Important Business Services (IBSs) and critical resources, including the development and monitoring of metrics across IBS and Critical resources
• Maintain my client's Operational Resilience Self-Assessment, every 6 months and on material change to ensure that senior management teams have an accurate and accessible assessment of resilience position which also meets regulatory requirements
• Lead operational resilience testing strategy and develop testing roadmap with relevant business areas to review and document the resilience and recovery options in the event of "severe but plausible disruption" scenarios; determining whether the test is passed or failed.
• Undertake reviews of my client's key third-party suppliers, vendors and outsource providers to ensure that Operational Resilience controls are in place and requirements are being met.
• Work with the Procurement team to ensure the appropriate controls and measures are available to manage contracts and material outsource/supplier questionnaires;
• Work with change functions to ensure that operational resilience requirements are Embedded in all projects, change programmes, processes and systems, including Future at Lloyd's;
• Work with the Information Security team to ensure that Operational Resilience requirements are aligned with and factored into my client's Information Security Strategy

Required skills/experience:

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in development and implementation of a robust business continuity program
• Demonstrable track record of leading Business Continuity programmes large matrixed global organization
• The ability to prioritise work and deliver results in a pressurised environment, through tactical and strategic planning.
• The ability to manage significant client contact, providing expert advice which demonstrates judgement and an understanding of the business.
• A demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with internal clients.
• The ability to provide support to more senior roles in developing key client relationships through the design of leading edge technologies.
• Knowledgeable and conversant with the principles set out in Operational Resilience regulations
• The ability to analyse, understand, recommend, manage, develop and implement solutions and processes for complex and conflicting demands.
• Strong knowledge of Windows operating systems.
• Experience in financial services is highly desirable

Operational Resilience - Business Continuity - Insurance - Regulations - Solutions - Principles - Insurance - London Market - Hybrid

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Manager

Insurance

Birmingham/Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)

Permanent

Up to £90,000 per annum + benefits + bonus