Business Continuity and IT Resilience Manager

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an  experienced Business Continuity and IT Resilience Manager looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) to give strategic guidance and best practice recommendations to ensure robust recovery planning, system resilience, and rapid restoration of critical IT services. Advise on the implementation of advanced recovery protocols to safeguard organisational operations.
• Oversee the execution of all activities outlined in the Business Continuity Programme to maintain and uphold the Bank’s ISO 22301 certification.
• Partner with Business and IT teams to ensure disaster recovery, crisis management, and business continuity plans effectively support and drive the overall DR strategy and procedures.
• Design, implement, and maintain a comprehensive testing programme covering Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, and Crisis/Incident Management, including assurance for key third-party providers.
• Promote IT DR and Business Continuity awareness across IT and business units and provide guidance, support, and training where needed.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Proven experience in a similar or comparable business role.
• Good technical, analytical and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Proven experience in developing IT DR plans and co-ordinating IT DR testing activities or similar experience in other Business and IT related planning activities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Proven experience in implementing and maintaining a crisis management framework
• Highly self-motivated and adaptable team player with a positive, can-do attitude. Able to take initiative and work effectively with others in a fast-paced environment.

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours

Two days in the office each week - (definitely Wednesday)  

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone.  If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
•  Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
•  Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
•  Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
•  Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
•  Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
•  Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
•  Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.