Resilience Testing Lead — Regulatory Readiness

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension matching (up to 14%)

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Resilience Testing Lead to join the Resilience Management Office. You will define, manage and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule and enhance maturity of testing across important services, aligning with UK and Ireland regulations.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to drive a consistent scenario exercising approach, mitigate threats, and support regulatory deadlines while championing best practices in resilience across the

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of operational resilience testing and exercising.
• Understanding of best practice in business continuity.
• Experience with regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience (UK/Ireland).
• Proven ability to design, plan and execute resilience test programmes.
• 3+ years of managing resilience exercises in a regulated organisation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex resilience exercises across Group services.
• Produce governance documentation for exercises (pre/post).
• Drive improvements and track remediation of findings across resilience ecosystem.
• Design annual Group-wide operational resilience exercise including all entities.
• Maintain cross-functional knowledge to support exercise design.
• Deliver concise progress reports to senior leadership using broad data sets.
• Raise and track resilience risks within risk management framework.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build strong resilience relationships.

Skills

Operational resilience testing

Business continuity

Regulatory awareness

Scenario design & execution

Mentoring juniors

Job description

Royal London is seeking a Resilience Testing Lead to join the Resilience Management Office. You will define, manage and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule and enhance maturity of testing across important services, aligning with UK and Ireland regulations.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to drive a consistent scenario exercising approach, mitigate threats, and support regulatory deadlines while championing best practices in resilience across the