Senior Resilience & Business Continuity Specialist

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Protection and Resilience Senior Associate - Business Continuity Management

Role Description

Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries, from the very first day you join us you'll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, we celebrate an inclusive culture and offer hybrid working.

About the Role

We have a new opportunity within Protection and Resilience as a Senior Resilience Associate. Reporting to the Head of Business Continuity you will be responsible for refining and implementing a Resilience framework and related policies, with day to day oversight of the execution of the Resilience framework across Allianz UK.

Salary Information

Pay:
Circa £57,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

• Support and maintain the Business Continuity Management lifecycle, ensuring consistent application of BCM activities across the organisation
• Support the development and maintenance of the Operational Resilience framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and integration with wider business continuity and risk management activities.
• Design, plan and facilitate scenario-based resilience exercises, ensuring scenarios are severe-but-plausible and effectively test the organisation's response capabilities and recovery strategies
• Maintain organisation's site specific Emergency Response Plans, ensuring they remain current and actionable. Facilitate Emergency Response Team calls when required
• Lead and coordinate annual BCM maturity self-assessments
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, promoting awareness of resilience obligations, embedding good practice, and supporting capability uplift across the organisation
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to communicate and influence at all levels

Essential Skills

• Support and maintain the Business Continuity Management lifecycle, ensuring consistent application of BCM activities across the organisation
• Support the development and maintenance of the Operational Resilience framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and integration with wider business continuity and risk management activities.
• Design, plan and facilitate scenario-based resilience exercises, ensuring scenarios are severe-but-plausible and effectively test the organisation's response capabilities and recovery strategies
• Maintain organisation's site specific Emergency Response Plans, ensuring they remain current and actionable. Facilitate Emergency Response Team calls when required
• Lead and coordinate annual BCM maturity self-assessments
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, promoting awareness of resilience obligations, embedding good practice, and supporting capability uplift across the organisation

We support the government scheme "Access to Work" please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

Desirable Skills

• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.

• Self-motivated and achievement orientated
• Willingness to learn and develop through self-driven personal development
• CBCI Certification or equivalent

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.

Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust

At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in…