Business Resilience Specialist
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Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
This role will support the business and technology teams in complying with organizational and regulatory guidelines and best practices towards enhancing the resilience of business processes and technology systems. Activities will support the continuity of critical business operations.
The role will also participate in key projects and initiatives ensuring information and operations risk is always considered and managed and will work with other teams including Information Security Information Protection and Vendor Risk Management to provide comprehensive Information Risk Management to the company.
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide support for business resilience continuity and system recovery efforts aligning with Manulifes new resiliency model.
- Participate in key projects and initiatives ensuring that resiliency risk is consistently considered and handled.
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to achieve business resilience goals while safeguarding our ability to deliver business operations during disruptions.
- Support continuity test planning execution and reporting with business and technology partners
- Support L2 and L3 reviews of resilience program practices
Required Qualifications:
- Up to 2 years of experience in business resilience/ continuity or Project Management from a large complex organization.
- Strong personal computing skills (MS Office) and familiarity with business resilience planning tools and/or relational databases (e.g. Fusion Risk Management Archer PowerBI).
- Broad understanding of Business Resilience methodologies and techniques.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to develop and deliver effective user education sessions and presentations.
- Demonstrable ability to build relationships engage and influence others.
- Knowledge of OSFI resilience requirements is an advantage.
- Willingness to learn from more senior members of the team
Preferred Qualifications:
- University Degree preferred
- Professional certification in BCM/DR (ABCP CBCP MBCI or MBCP) is a plus or working towards acquiring certification.
- Financial Services industry experience preferred.
When you join our team:
- Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
- Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
- As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Manulife/John Hancock we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment retention advancement and compensation and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race ancestry place of origin colour ethnic origin citizenship religion or religious beliefs creed sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions) sexual orientation genetic characteristics veteran status gender identity gender expression age marital status family status disability or any other ground protected by applicable law.
It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process contact .
Referenced Salary Location
Toronto OntarioWorking Arrangement
Salary range is expected to be between
$60900.00 CAD - $113100.00 CADIf you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Sales Experience
- B2B Sales
- Presentation Skills
- Time Management
- Marketing
- Cold Calling
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Salesforce
- Organization Design
- Public Speaking
- Lead Generation
About Company
Manulife is a leading financial services group. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions.
