Organisational Resilience Lead in Birmingham

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We are looking for an experienced resilience professional who loves owning end‑to‑end business continuity and wants real autonomy to raise the bar across a fast‑moving tech organisation.

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain a unified organisational resilience framework aligned with ISO 22301 and ISO 22361.
• Champion best practice across the business, ensuring teams understand their role during incidents and recovery.
• Create, update, and govern continuity and disaster recovery plans across multiple departments, products and global sites.
• Maintain a full schedule of testing, reviews and validation activities with clear documentation and follow‑through.
• Advise leaders on continuity, disaster recovery and crisis readiness.
• Stay ahead of emerging standards, risks and industry developments.
• Partner with sales to ensure SLAs are realistic, contractually sound and aligned with resilience commitments.
• Collaborate with service and infrastructure teams to define and test RTOs and RPOs, translate technical detail into business impact, and evaluate RTO/RPO rationale for systems.
• Lead risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and prioritise recovery activities.
• Coordinate post‑incident reviews and embed lessons learned.
• Act as deputy scribe during crisis events.
• Produce clear, insightful reporting for senior leadership and external audit requirements.

What You Will Have

• Strong experience in resilience / business continuity, ideally having led frameworks, testing cycles and recovery plans end‑to‑end.
• Comfortable discussing technical failovers (architecture, infrastructure, databases) with service teams.
• Confident engaging with stakeholders from help‑desk to exec level.
• Experience in SaaS or tech environments preferred; financial services experience is a bonus.
• Professional certifications (MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor) are desirable.
• Able to work globally with sites in India and Australia; occasional travel expected.
• Proactive, organised and happy working autonomously in a role where you set the standard.

What We Do For You

• Wellbeing focused – Annual leave 26 days, public holidays, ability to buy additional days.
• Employee Assistance Programme – Free advice, support and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Care First.
• Personal Growth – Development programmes, performance bonus, online learning platform (SkillsHub), external training opportunities.
• Financial wellbeing – Pension scheme with 5% matched contribution by the company; income protection insurance.
• Recognition – Performance & Talent platform for real‑time feedback, conversations and goals.
• Making a Difference – MatchIt! – fundraise matching; volunteering leave scheme; Pennies from Heaven donation option.

Who We Are

OneAdvanced is one of the UK\’s largest providers of business software and services, serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330 M. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and more. Our mission is to power the world of work and empower the growth, ambitions and talents of our people.