Strategic Operational Resilience Lead

Simplyhealth; Binfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplyhealth in the United Kingdom is seeking a Business Resilience Manager to lead the development and ongoing improvement of our resilience, continuity and incident response capabilities across Technology and the wider business.

You will own BCMS, manage governance, run scenario tests and disaster recovery exercises, and report to senior stakeholders and the Board on resilience metrics and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and continuously improving our Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
• Managing Business Continuity policies, plans, business impact analyses and related governance activities.
• Developing and maintaining Operational Resilience frameworks aligned to regulatory and industry standards, including ISO 22301 and FCA Operational Resilience requirements.
• Conducting resilience mapping activities across people, technology, suppliers and facilities to identify and manage critical dependencies.
• Leading scenario testing and resilience exercises to validate our ability to remain within agreed impact tolerances during severe but plausible incidents.
• Coordinating annual disaster recovery testing and ensuring effective recovery planning across technology services.
• Supporting incident management activities, investigations and post-incident reporting, including recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Producing resilience metrics, management reporting and the annual Operational Resilience Self-Assessment for senior stakeholders and the Board.
• Delivering training, awareness programmes and exercises to strengthen resilience capability across the organisation.

Job description

Simplyhealth in the United Kingdom is seeking a Business Resilience Manager to lead the development and ongoing improvement of our resilience, continuity and incident response capabilities across Technology and the wider business.

You will own BCMS, manage governance, run scenario tests and disaster recovery exercises, and report to senior stakeholders and the Board on resilience metrics and regulatory compliance.