Job Description
The IPT Lead – Resilience (full time, hybrid, Derby) is responsible for leading 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 IPT Lead will work cross‑functionally 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 highly visible transformation and delivery role requires 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; 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 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 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, preventative mindset, analytical, high initiative taker, and adaptable approach to problem‑solving.
* Comfortable operating in a 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
* Head of Business Continuity Programme Leadership
* Chief of Staff roles
* Operational Excellence leadership positions
* Regional leadership roles
Benefits
* Generous annual leave
* Retirement savings through the Rolls‑Royce Retirement Savings Trust
* Group life assurance providing a lump sum benefit if you die while employed by Rolls‑Royce Group
* Income protection providing an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
* Shares programme – matched Shares: Buy one share, get one free!
Inclusion Statement
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.
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