Senior Manager – Operational Resilience Consulting

Company: Hays
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this Senior Manager role, you steer complex operational resilience initiatives for major Financial Services clients from London. You’ll work closely with C-suite and boards to shape resilience strategy, regulatory response, and investment priorities while leading cross‑functional delivery. Your impact spans transforming resilience programs, crisis readiness, and third‑party risk management, with a focus on client impact and account growth. This is a high‑visibility, client‑facing role within a top resilience practice that values strategic influence and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex operational resilience and crisis management engagements across Financial Services
  • Advise senior executives and boards on resilience strategy, regulation and investment
  • Design and deliver large-scale resilience transformation programmes
  • Lead scenario testing, simulations and crisis exercises
  • Assess technology, cloud, third-party and operational resilience
  • Support clients with crisis and incident management frameworks
  • Manage engagement scope, budgets, contracts, delivery risk and project teams
  • Build trusted relationships across a portfolio of major Financial Services clients
  • Identify opportunities to expand accounts and develop new client relationships
  • Lead proposals, business development and go-to-market activity
  • Develop new services and propositions, including technology and AI-enabled solutions
  • Coach and develop consultants across the wider practice

Key requirements

  • Significant operational resilience and business continuity experience within Financial Services
  • Strong background in consulting, advisory or professional services
  • Experience leading complex client engagements and multidisciplinary delivery teams
  • Strong knowledge of Financial Services regulation and evolving resilience expectations
  • Credibility to advise and influence C-suite executives, boards and senior risk leaders
  • Commercial experience growing accounts, developing client relationships and securing new work
  • Experience managing engagement budgets, contracts, resources and delivery risk
  • Ability to understand complex operating models and dependencies across people, processes, technology and third parties
  • Strong communication, presentation and business writing skills
  • Strategic thinking
  • Executive communication
  • Client relationship management
  • Operational resilience
  • Business continuity
  • Technology and digital resilience

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Posted: October 17th, 2026