AddressWe are looking for a Business Resilience Specialist within the European Resilience & Governance function. We are seeking a strong resilience/ continuity specialist to partner with leaders across the European business to promote the strategic direction and plans to ensure business continuity and effective emergency management.
Core Responsibilities
- The role requires business continuity experience, and the key responsibility will be to create and implement an enhanced business continuity framework for the European business.
- Assists with the development, maintenance, exercising and testing of crisis management and business continuity plans.
- Maintain governance and oversight of the IT Disaster Recovery Plan and scenario playbooks.
- Provides direction on the operating strategies for the continuation of business within a recovery time objective.
- Identifies and quantifies the potential impact of various disruptions and disaster scenarios and make recommendations and elevates to management.
- Monitors and reports on the compliance of business continuity processes, readiness, events and exercise results to senior management and key stakeholders.
- Provides training, maintenance, and support for approved contingency planning tools and plans. Shares information on enterprise continuity processes, standards, and initiatives.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships to support the business continuity framework. Assists business partners and business units in defining, implementing, and improving local efforts to ensure the European business is resilient.
- Maintains awareness of regulatory risk and control topics. Seeks to understand broad industry and Vanguard trends regarding risk and control.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
- Carry out crisis management tabletop exercises for senior management.
- Monitor and report on the status of business continuity readiness
- Maintain governance and oversight of the IT Disaster Recovery Plan and exercise.
- Review, audit, and update BC plans, with the business, regularly to reflect changing organisational needs or external threats.
What it takes
- Minimum of five years related work experience. Business continuity and/or disaster recovery experience is essential and operational resilience experience is preferred.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Experience of working in the financial sector is desirable.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills will be key as this role will face off to a variety of stakeholders across the business.
- Relevant Business Continuity qualifications are preferred; Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) (CBCP) or Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP).
- Able to work independently and across different teams.
Special Factors
- Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
- This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office location Tuesday-Thursday.
About Vanguard
Vanguard is an investment company unlike any other. It was founded by Jack Bogle in the US in 1975 on a simple but ground-breaking idea: that an investment company should handle its funds solely in the interests of its clients. Jack helped bring investing to the masses with the index fund. Index funds do not pick individual shares or bonds to beat the market. They supervise the performance of the entire market. Or as Jack put it, "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”. We have stood for low-cost, uncomplicated investing ever since. Over the last 45 years people have come round to our way of thinking and more than 30 million investors worldwide now trust us with their money.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued dedication to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
