Senior Manager Continuity & Response

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Generous pension contribution

Discretionary performance award

Private healthcare

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Manager Continuity & Response to shape the Group's resilience capabilities across technology, data, suppliers, operations, people and property. You will translate complex challenges into measurable actions, guiding response and recovery initiatives across the organisation.

In this hybrid role, you’ll lead a specialist Business Continuity team, drive data-driven insights, and work with senior leaders to embed practical resilience outcomes while maintaining

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Business Continuity, Operational Resilience, Crisis Management or Recovery activities within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong expertise in Business Continuity and response and recovery planning, with the ability to embed practical and measurable resilience outcomes.
• Experience leading teams, developing capability and providing clarity through complex challenges.
• Ability to use data, tooling and management information to support assurance, oversight and informed decision-making.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior, executive and regulatory audiences.
• Experience designing, delivering or overseeing exercising, testing and assurance activities that support continuous improvement.
• Experience supporting enterprise-wide exercising, crisis response or recovery activity.
• Understanding of cloud technology, artificial intelligence, data and supplier networks influencing resilience capabilities.
• Established external networks within Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management or Technology Resilience communities.

Responsibilities

• Leading response and recovery capability to ensure preparedness and effective recovery during disruption.
• Driving exercising, assurance and continuous improvement activities to demonstrate resilience plans and capabilities work in practice.
• Developing and leading a specialist Business Continuity team, building capability and embedding future-focused ways of working.
• Using data, tooling and automation to improve resilience insight, assurance and decision-making.
• Connecting resilience activity across key enabling functions, helping drive a coordinated approach to operational resilience.
• Providing clear, effective guidance and challenge to senior leaders, executive forums and regulatory stakeholders.

Skills

Business Continuity

Operational Resilience

Crisis Management

Recovery activities

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description

End Date Thursday 15 October 2026 Salary Range £85,493 - £100,580 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Salary: £85,493 - £100,580 LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of the above office sites.

About this opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the Group's response and recovery capability, supporting long-term resilience ambitions and helping ensure critical services can continue and recover effectively during disruption. As Senior Manager Continuity & Response, you'll lead the development and enhancement of response and recovery capabilities across the organisation, connecting resilience activity across technology, data, suppliers, operations, people and property. You'll work with senior stakeholders to translate complex resilience challenges into practical, measurable actions that strengthen organisational resilience.

Key responsibilities

• Leading response and recovery capability to ensure preparedness and effective recovery during disruption.
• Driving exercising, assurance and continuous improvement activities to demonstrate resilience plans and capabilities work in practice.
• Developing and leading a specialist Business Continuity team, building capability and embedding future-focused ways of working.
• Using data, tooling and automation to improve resilience insight, assurance and decision-making.
• Connecting resilience activity across key enabling functions, helping drive a coordinated approach to operational resilience.
• Providing clear, effective guidance and challenge to senior leaders, executive forums and regulatory stakeholders.

What you'll need

• Experience delivering Business Continuity, Operational Resilience, Crisis Management or Recovery activities within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong expertise in Business Continuity and response and recovery planning, with the ability to embed practical and measurable resilience outcomes.
• Experience leading teams, developing capability and providing clarity through complex challenges.
• Ability to use data, tooling and management information to support assurance, oversight and informed decision-making.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior, executive and regulatory audiences.
• Experience designing, delivering or overseeing exercising, testing and assurance activities that support continuous improvement.
• And any experience of this would be really useful Experience supporting enterprise-wide exercising, crisis response or recovery activity.
• Understanding of how cloud technology, artificial intelligence, data and supplier networks are influencing resilience capabilities.
• Established external networks within Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management or Technology Resilience communities.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re investing in our people, technology and data to support over 28 million customers and Help Britain Prosper. This role offers the opportunity to help shape the next generation of resilience capability, enabling the Group to transform and modernise safely while continuing to deliver critical services through disruption. You'll join a collaborative environment where innovation, continuous improvement and customer outcomes are at the heart of what we do.

Our commitment to diversity

This is a place for you... Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A generous pension contribution.
• Discretionary performance-related award.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• Access to a wide range of colleague benefits and learning opportunities.

About Our Culture

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

Contact

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