Job Title: Resilience Testing Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge, Edinburgh, or London
Working style: Hybrid (50% home/office based)
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Resilience Testing Lead to join our Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with senior leaders and executive members across the business, the Resilience Testing Lead will define, manage, and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule. You will be responsible for enhancing and maturing our scenario testing against key business services and possess in-depth operational knowledge of Operational Resilience regulation for the UK and Ireland.
The Resilience Testing Lead will support the implementation of strategies and tactics to ensure a consistent approach to scenario exercising, maintaining compliance with Operational Resilience regulation. This role is key to driving regulatory compliance across the resilience ecosystem, supporting threat mitigation measures, and ensuring customer harm is minimized. You will champion best practices and promote resilient processes and technology to mitigate disruptions.
About the role
1. Design and implement increasingly complex scenario exercises, identifying risks to critical business services.
2. Prepare and maintain governance documentation before and after exercises.
3. Drive continuous improvement and oversee remediation of findings and vulnerabilities.
4. Design the annual comprehensive Group-wide operational resilience exercise, including all entities.
5. Maintain high levels of business, technical, and operational knowledge across the organization, including dependencies.
6. Deliver clear reports and present progress to senior leadership using broad data sets.
7. Ensure resilience risks are identified, raised, and tracked following the Group risk management framework.
8. Collaborate with stakeholders and functions to build strong relationships.
About you
Technical skills
1. Subject matter expert with operational experience in Operational Resilience testing and exercising.
2. Understanding of best practices in Business Continuity.
3. Experience with Financial Services regulatory expectations (Central Bank of Ireland, FCA, PRA).
4. Proven ability to design, plan, and execute resilience test programs.
5. Over 3 years’ experience managing/executing resilience exercises in regulated organizations.
6. Experience mentoring junior colleagues in resilience.
Qualifications/Knowledge
1. Track record in implementing operational resilience regulatory requirements.
2. Deep knowledge of operational areas (operations, finance, technology, supply chain, security).
3. Stakeholder management skills.
4. Commercial awareness.
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
6. Experience in enterprise-scale IT organizations within financial services or similar regulated industries.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise is to work in an inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling environment, underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We offer great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. See all our benefits here -
Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer that celebrates diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives give us a range of skills that are recognized and respected, regardless of background.
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