VP Resilience

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Annual Leave

Retirement Savings Plan

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Employee Shares: Matched

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a VP Resilience to lead enterprise resilience with an initial focus on cyber incident readiness within Civil Aerospace. The role requires senior leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a programme-driven mindset to embed scalable resilience strategies.

You will partner with Cyber/IT, safety and business continuity teams to ensure continuity, preparedness and rapid recovery across complex operations, in a hybrid Derby environment.

Qualifications

• Senior Leader with strong Enterprise or Civil business knowledge
• Experience across Civil Rolls-Royce value stream or in complex, regulated environments
• Strong business process mapping and recovery planning knowledge
• Credible project management, system thinking and change management skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration in a complex environment

Responsibilities

• Lead Cyber resilience readiness in Civil Aerospace with focus on incident preparedness
• Develop recovery capabilities and align response frameworks across the organisation
• Partner with Cyber Security, IT and operations to improve incident response readiness
• Define and implement resilience playbooks and recovery models
• Establish governance and reporting for resilience initiatives
• Facilitate resilience workshops, risk reviews and recovery testing
• Provide updates and investment recommendations to senior leadership

Skills

Enterprise resilience

Stakeholder management

Project management

Change management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description

VP Resilience

Full Time – Hybrid

Derby

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Civil are strengthening our enterprise resilience capability to ensure the business can effectively prevent, respond to, and recover from major operational and cyber-related incidents.

The VP Resilience will lead and drive resilience due diligence activities across Civil Aerospace, identifying capability gaps and implementing practical, business-aligned resilience solutions with an immediate focus on cyber incident readiness.

This role will establish and embed a scalable resilience framework across the business, ensuring operational continuity, improved incident preparedness, and alignment to enterprise resilience standards and strategic priorities.

The role will work cross-functionally across Civil Aerospace, partnering with operational leaders, Cyber/IT, Safety, and Business Continuity teams to build a resilient organisation, business processes and supporting systems capable of responding effectively to disruption.

This is a highly visible transformation and delivery role requiring strong stakeholder leadership, programme management capability, and enterprise thinking.

Key Accountabilities

Cyber Incident Readiness

• Lead the Civil Aerospace cyber resilience readiness programme with an initial focus on major cyber incident preparedness
• Develop coordinated business response and recovery capabilities for cyber-related disruptions
• Partner with Cyber Security, IT, and operational teams to improve incident response capability and organisational preparedness
• Ensure recovery plans and response frameworks are operationally aligned, tested, and embedded

Business Resilience Strategy & Delivery

• Lead the development and implementation of the Civil Aerospace Business Resilience framework and roadmap
• Conduct resilience due diligence activities across business areas to identify operational, cyber, process, and recovery capability gaps
• Define and implement action plans to close identified resilience gaps across the organisation
• Establish practical resilience mechanisms aligned to Minimum Viable Company (MVC) principles and business recovery requirements
• Drive implementation of resilience playbooks, response frameworks for each CALT Lead, and operational recovery models

Programme Leadership & Governance

• Lead cross-functional resilience workstreams and integrated programme activities across Civil Aerospace
• Establish governance, reporting, prioritisation, and tracking mechanisms for resilience initiatives
• Facilitate resilience workshops, risk reviews, simulation exercises, and recovery testing activities
• Provide updates, recommendations, and investment proposals to senior leadership and CALT stakeholders
• Ensure resilience priorities remain aligned to strategic business objectives and enterprise policies

Stakeholder Engagement & Culture

• Build strong relationships across operational, engineering, technology, and functional teams
• Drive awareness and adoption of resilience principles across the organisation
• Support the development of a proactive resilience culture focused on prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery
• Influence senior stakeholders across Civil Aerospace to embed resilience thinking into business processes and decision-making

Continuous Improvement & Benchmarking

• Ensure alignment with internal governance, regulatory requirements, and external best practice
• Benchmark resilience capability against enterprise standards and industry expectations
• Capture lessons learned from incidents, exercises, and recovery activities to drive continuous improvement

Key Experiences and Qualifications

• A Senior Leader with strong Enterprise or Civil business knowledge, looking to apply their experience to a strategically important resilience and business continuity programme
• Experience and exposure in and across the Civil/ Rolls-Royce Value Stream, and/or in business continuity, in complex project roles, preferably within aerospace or highly regulated environments
• Strong understanding of business process mapping and organisational recovery planning
• Strong project management skills, credible system thinker, experienced change manager
• Enterprise thinker, with excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Good understanding of existing business processes. Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence at all levels
• Proactive, curious and preventative/pro-active mindset, analytical, high initiative taker, and adaptable approach to problem-solving. Comfortable operator in complex environment

Career Development Opportunity

This role provides significant exposure across Civil Aerospace and offers development opportunities into broader strategic leadership, programme leadership, business continuity, operational transformation, and Chief of Staff pathways.

Potential future progression may include:

• Head of Business Continuity
• Programme Leadership
• Chief of Staff roles
• Operational Excellence leadership positions

Regional Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls-Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free!

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

Grade: Management Level B

For more information, please contact: Alison Connaughton [e-mail]

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category

Project Management