Operational Resilience Lead: Map, Plan & Test (Hybrid)

Standard Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking an Operational Resilience Manager to join the Crisis & Response team. The role focuses on mapping, planning and testing to strengthen the resilience of Important and Critical Business Services across the organisation.

You will design robust testing regimes, translate service mappings into practical resilience plans and work with owners to improve recovery strategies, contingencies and outcomes during disruptions.

Qualifications

• Operational resilience experience with important/critical services, impact tolerances and mapping.
• Strong testing capability designing, executing and assessing complex scenarios and simulations.
• Excellent analytical skills to interpret complex services, dependencies and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Map Important and Critical Business Services end to end, identifying vulnerabilities and failure points.
• Translate mapping into practical resilience plans with service owners to strengthen recovery strategies.
• Design and deliver deep resilience testing using challenging scenarios, stress tests, exercises and simulations.
• Push beyond obvious failures by testing individual and combined dependency failures and assess outcomes.
• Turn testing insights into actions to improve mapping, planning and testing in the future.

Skills

Operational resilience

Testing capability

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Mapping & planning

Job description

Standard Life is seeking an Operational Resilience Manager to join the Crisis & Response team. The role focuses on mapping, planning and testing to strengthen the resilience of Important and Critical Business Services across the organisation.

You will design robust testing regimes, translate service mappings into practical resilience plans and work with owners to improve recovery strategies, contingencies and outcomes during disruptions.