Looking for a role that will have a meaningful impact on Business Resilience?
We are looking for an individual to work with our business to ensure all parts of Markel have robust resilience plans in place.
What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Join us and play your part in something special!
The opportunity:
In an increasingly volatile world, ensuring our operations are resilient against all forms of disruption is a priority for management, customers and regulators. The business resilience team are responsible for ensuring Markel’s international operations, including where we rely on third parties, are resilient against all forms of operational disruption.
This role will work with business leaders across all parts of Markel to ensure that we have robust resilience plans in place and regularly test these both to protect the business and meet relevant regulatory requirements. They will be a champion of business resilience and drive engagement and awareness across the business, resulting in an embedded ‘resilience by design’ culture.
What you’ll be doing:
- Support the implementation of Markel International’s business resilience framework, ensuring alignment with the Markel Corporation framework as well as all relevant regulatory requirements including UK Operational Resilience and the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act.
- Work with relevant stakeholders including those in IT, Workplace, Wholesale, National Markets and various shared service functions to ensure resilience plans are in place covering technology, data, facilities, people, processes, and third parties.
- Support the programme of testing against resilience plans, including designing and supporting scenario stress testing activities.
- Provide input on the design and review of Business Continuity plans across the business.
- Support the annual review activities for Operational Resilience including reviewing important business services, setting impact tolerances and updating the self-assessment documents for all legal entities.
- Support the delivery of Markel’s material outsourcing framework, working with third party providers to ensure they have sufficient resilience plans in place and contingencies exist for stressed and non-stressed exits.
- Promote operational resilience by design, acting as an advisor on best practice for operational resilience across new initiatives.
- Support the running of relevant internal forums, providing materials and tracking actions as appropriate.
- Deputise for the Business Resilience Lead where appropriate to support the business area.
- Monitor industry developments and best practice to ensure the Markel’s operations remain resilient against emerging threats.
Our must-haves:
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience of delivering business resilience frameworks within the financial services sector, with a good working knowledge across facilities, technology, people, process, data and third parties.
- Experience of designing and facilitating scenario stress testing exercises.
- Strong organisation skills and a track record of delivering against business deadlines.
- A good knowledge of relevant regulation including the PRA and FCA requirements for Operational Resilience, Material Outsourcing, and the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
- A good understanding of project management practices, including planning, reporting and being able to work independently where required.
- The ability to stay ahead of external trends and promote best practice.
Who we are:
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s in it for you?
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
- There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!
Are you ready to play your part?
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.
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