Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Specialist

Ageas UK; Chandler's Ford; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Ageas UK is seeking an experienced Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Specialist to enhance their resilience strategies. The role involves supporting the Business Continuity Management framework across locations, collaborating with IT and business functions, and ensuring compliance with regulations while improving operational readiness.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Dental Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Annual Bonus Schemes

Employee Savings

Maternity/Parental Leave Benefits

Well-being Activities

Car Salary Exchange

Qualifications

• Experience in Business Continuity Management within the financial sector is essential.
• Understanding of the BCM Lifecycle.
• Strong interpersonal skills for engagement with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update BC/Resilience policies and documentation.
• Collaborate with IT on continuity testing and disaster recovery planning.
• Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments.

Skills

Business Continuity Management

Operational Resilience

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Decision Making

Education

CBCI qualification or equivalent

Job description

Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Specialist

Ageas UK Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom

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This range is provided by Ageas UK. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Job Title: Operational Resilience Specialist.

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available.

Salary Range: £33,200 - £49,800.

Location: Eastleigh Hybrid.

Closing Date for applications: Monday 30th June 2025

Operational Resilience Specialist: We are looking for an experienced Operational Resilience Specialist who is organised and operational minded to support the development, implementation, and continual improvement of resilience and continuity strategies across the organisation, working collaboratively with both IT and Business functions to ensure a comprehensive understanding of operational needs and recovery objectives.

The successful candidate will support the Operational Resilience & Business Continuity Manager in the delivery of Business Continuity Management framework for all Ageas UK locations and administration of business continuity processes and best practices

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain and update BC/Resilience policies, plans, and documentation
• Ensure recovery objectives and impact tolerances are met.
• Collaborate with IT on continuity testing and disaster recovery planning.
• Support crisis response, recovery site operations, and return-to-normal activities.
• Report on test outcomes and continuity issues.
• Promote Operational Resilience and Business Continuity awareness, training, and communications across Ageas.
• Ensure compliance with Group policy and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments.
• Design and implement effective continuity mechanisms and procedures.
• Oversee the effective execution of Disaster Recovery testing ensuring that the plans support both recovery point and recovery time objectives and that plans are updated in response to issues found during testing.
  
  
  

Skills and experience:

• Experience of Business Continuity Management, planning and testing within the financial sector is essential.
• Experience of Operational Resilience & Business Continuity aligned to Regulatory guidelines/principles.
• CBCI qualification, or equivalent is desirable.
• A demonstrable understanding of the BCM Lifecycle.
• Experience of Operational Resilience and Business Continuity controls, in particular those relating to business process, governance, risk and education.
• Good communication skills both verbally and in writing with good questioning and listening skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to talk comfortably and knowledgeably with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior management, business partners, audit functions.
• Experience in dealing with external stakeholders.
• Good decision-making skills, strong team working, collaborative, proactive, planning and organisation skills
  
  
  

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our Peoplehelp Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

Click on the ‘Apply button’ to be considered.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Insurance

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