Job Title: Business Continuity Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Overview:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Business Continuity Lead to join the Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with operational leaders and Business Continuity Champions from across all entities within the business, the Business Continuity Lead will work to own and drive forward the implementation of industry best practice across Royal London Group’s Business Continuity programme.
About the role:
Ownership of the Group-wide Business Continuity programme, ensuring all roles conduct activities in line with requirements
Implementing the Group Business Continuity framework in line with the Operational Resilience policy
Ensuring that all artefacts and documentation are in place and retained appropriately
Ensuring that governance packs and documentation are produced and retained in line with expectation
Coordinates the planning and testing of workarounds and contingency plans to address exposure to risk and ensure that agreed levels of continuity are maintained
Providing guidance to stakeholders required to utilise tools and templates provided by the Resilience Management Office
Provide training to new and existing Business Continuity Champions to ensure their knowledge and skills remail up to date.
Facilitating and owning a Business Continuity communications plan and strategy
Identify and drive improvements to the groups Business Continuity Framework.
Supporting on review of third party due diligence questionnaires and attendance at third party site visits, both virtual and physical, and the creation of subsequent site visit reports
About you:
A detailed understanding of the Business Continuity practices
Knowledge of the financial services industry, how our business operates and the legislative/regulatory framework
Analytical skills including problem-solving, data skills, and creativity
Understanding of service resilience design and execution
Expert understanding of Business Continuity Planning
Basic understanding of Operational Resilience and IT Disaster Recovery
Experience of dealing with process / organisational change
AMBCI or MBCI qualified
Excellent communication both written and verbal.
If you think you would be a great fit for our team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.