Head of Business Continuity and Resilience - Toronto, Canada - Manulife

Manulife
Manulife
Verified Company
Toronto, Canada

3 days ago

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_Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you. _

Working Arrangement
Hybrid


The leader of our
Business Resilience, Continuity/Recovery & Crisis Management efforts is responsible for the overall delivery of the enterprise resilience practice, approach, and program governance across Manulife.

The incumbent will serve as a Subject Matter Expert on matters of Resilience, Continuity, Recovery and Response, and must be a principle driving force to mature those capabilities across Manulife.

This leader will be the content owner for Manulife enterprise BC & DR Standards, will craft the approach and roadmap to evolve Manulife's business resilience capabilities and will serve as the enterprise Crisis response coordinator.

This leader oversees the enterprise BC/DR/ Crisis team ensuring work is managed, prioritized, and completed in alignment with business goals, drivers and commitments.


Key Accountabilities:


  • Delivering information risk expertise and advice to the business users and IT users enabling them to manage their Resilience / BC / DR & Crisis response risks efficiently and effectively.
  • Managing the Resilience / BC / DR & Crisis risk team and function with direct reports in multiple locations with responsibility for all staffing decisions related to this team.
  • Adjusting and setting risk commitments within the team. In a changing environment, constantly reviewing and balancing the team's businessasusual commitments with shortterm/immediate priorities and longterm strategic initiatives. Completing shortterm planning and creating longterm strategy that will mature information risk capabilities ensuring the practices keep pace with both internal drivers (company strategy and goals) and external drivers (technology, regulations, threats, vulnerabilities, etc.).
  • Fostering and maintaining a talent pipeline to ensure staff openings and hiring are managed proactively; devising training paths and development plans to ensure skills within the team are fostered and strengthened to meet both the current and anticipated demand; maintaining and if appropriate attaining new certifications. Anticipating the needs of skills, knowledge, and tools for their team.
  • Being responsible and accountable for team budget and spending.
  • Promoting a strong information risk management culture.
  • Staying abreast of new regulations, laws, and requirements for relevant risks across jurisdictions and overseeing compliance with same as required. Ensuring staff are properly trained and keep current with information risk and resilience developments, and technology (both in use at Manulife and across the industry).
  • Interacting with and cooperating with information risk teams globally ensuring uniform processes and compliance with Global Information Risk Management processes, procedures, policies, standards, templates, and guidelines.
  • Maintaining and fostering enduring relationships with internal customers namely:
  • executives and other staff within business lines
- project managers, developers, and others
- executives and peers within the wider Information Risk Management community
- executives and others within other second
- and third-line of defense teams (Audit Services, Operational Risk, Compliance, Investigative Services, Enterprise Risk, etc.)


Job Requirements:


  • Minimum 10 years progressive leadership in the area of Business Resiliency/BC/DR/Crisis management, principles, processes and deliverables within a large enterprise.
  • University degree
  • Expertise in best practices of various aspects of information risk management and prior experience as a leader in Information Risk
  • Strong communication skills and ability to distill highly technical information for nontechnologists including executives
  • Strong competencies in collaboration, problem solving and influence
  • Knowledge of the regulatory environments in Canada and the US

Competencies:


  • Strong leadership, communication, consulting, decisionmaking and influencing skills
  • Superior presentation and facilitation skills to all levels and audiences
  • Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships
  • Strong team player (collaborative)
  • Problem solving, innovative and strategic thinker
  • Empowers others
  • Influences others to think strategically
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of the industry, strategic direction of the Company and operational challenges
  • Strong time management and organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities
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Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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