Operational Resilience, Readiness and Response Manager (12 months FTC/Secondment) (EXPIRED)
Annual
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work." This role is an exciting opportunity to join us as a manager in our operational resilience team. Operational Resilience at Sky is more than just Business Continuity. We're a source of expert advice and support for the organisation. Working closely with senior internal and external stakeholders, we provide analysis, insight and solutions that help to keep people, assets and sites safe across the Sky family. The excitement is in the challenge; from strategy development to incident response, we work across the business to support, challenge and upskill the teams that help keep all our people What you'll do:
- Help shape and lead elements of a best-in-class operational resilience function. Provide clear strategic / tactical level subject matter expertise to meet the wider strategic objectives of the team and the wider Group Resilience function.
- Own the performance of the Operational Resilience delivery at Sky, maintaining industry leading performance on key metrics such as (but not limited to) incidents; continuity planning; finances and meet agreed SLAs as outlined in resilience strategy.
- Be a business continuity expert and trusted business partner to senior leaders in the business. Be up to date with and able to implement the most cutting-edge developments in this field.
- Own and be accountable for maintaining a strong, robust and well-designed, Group-wide control environment, working with Market resilience leads to ensure compliance.
- Test and improve resilience capabilities through the design and delivery of exercises, stress-tests, reverse stress-tests etc.
- Liaise with Market resilience leads, ensuring good working relationships, clear and firm governance, support, guidance and collaboration on resilience across the Group.
- Maintain up to date metrics on Group-wide resilience capability and be able to present in detail up to Executive level at any time.
- Liaise with a wide network of Stakeholders, ensuring that they are provided with relevant, timely and accurate information which informs and directs business decisions.
- Manage the delivery of resilience projects, ensuring high standards and efficient project management in all deliverables.
- Work with key Group stakeholders like commercial and technology teams to ensure full tie-in of resilience principles and ways-of-working.
- Support senior leadership in the live response to major incidents or crises.
- Be the first point of contact for both internal and external audit assignments covering crisis, continuity and emergency response.
- Collaborate with other teams within Group Resilience to contribute towards continuous improvement across the function.
- Be able to deputise for the Head of Op Resilience when appropriate.
- You have an excellent understanding of how resilience enables an organisation and are able to demonstrate the value it adds.
- Strong leadership qualities and the ability to communicate at the strategic through to the operational levels of the business.
- Strong problem solver, able to analyse and understand issues, problems or challenges and develop solutions to them.
- Has the proven ability to think outside of the box, challenge industry norms and adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
- Proven ability to innovate in the design of processes and solutions to deliver specific outcomes across all areas of operational resilience.
- Strong stakeholder management, relationship building, influencing, facilitating and presenting skills at every level of business.
- Solutions focused - measures their output on whether issues, problems or challenges are resolved as a criteria for success.
- Works iteratively, at a high tempo, delivering quickly and frequently to produce high quality documents and outputs which require little to no rework.
- Calm under pressure and can execute clear command and control measures in stressful situations.
- CBCI Qualification
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences