Head of Operational Resilience and Third Party Risk Management

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs – to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.  

Recruiter: Oliver England (oliver.england@landg.com) Internal Closing Date: 3/5/2024

We’re recruiting for a Head of Operational Resilience and Third Party Risk Management to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary a 12% car allowance, bonus, excellent pension, and a range of other flexible benefits.

We are seeking someone with a strong Operational Risk background (from either 1st or 2nd line) who also has a good understanding of Procurement and Third Party risk.

Experience in IT risk and resilience would also be highly valuable, as cyber risk plays a significant role when considering Operational Resilience.

Although this is a Head of role, we are looking for individuals who are happy to be hands-on and involved in the work of the wider team.

What you'll be doing:

• Providing oversight to the operational resilience program, attending committee meetings, identifying and rectifying any gaps, and ensuring L&G meets all its regulatory requirements
• Leading an annual review and oversight program related to the Group’s resilience capabilities
• Partnering with Third Party Risk Management teams to ensure the quality of their work aligns with company and regulatory standards
• Engaging with key stakeholders in procurement and provide risk oversight to their practices

Who we're looking for:

• A risk management or auditing/internal auditing qualification
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, procurement, and Third Party Supplier risk management
• Solid grasp of control design in IT and digital systems
• Experience in incident management, crisis, and recovery during significant events and major operational outages
• Development and testing of large-scale business recovery plans
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to build long-term relationships

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services organisation, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.  

We’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.  

We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.