Risk Management & Business Continuity Specialist

Location: Weybridge UK

Sony Europe are on the hunt for a talented driven data-obsessed and laser-focused Risk Management & Business Continuity professional to join our team.

In this role youll create a unified approach to managing risks handling crises and ensuring business continuity across all the countries we operate in. Youll work with various different teams to make sure our plans are solid our response processes are clear and our employees feel secure especially when theyre traveling.

In this role youll be responsible for:

• Developing a Pan-EU Risk Management Framework: Further develop implement and maintain a consistent approach to risk management crisis response and business continuity across all the countries we operate in.
• Managing Travel Risks: Identify and manage potential threats to our employees especially when theyre traveling. Youll oversee the approval process for business travel based on country risk levels and ensure that our team is safe during major incidents.
• Crisis Management: Coordinate our 54 EU crisis response teams keeping plans and contact details up to date. Youll provide training and reminders on crisis roles and responsibilities ensuring everyone knows what to do when it matters most.
• Business Continuity Planning: Run our Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Business Continuity (BC) program. Youll work closely with business unit leaders to ensure that our BC plans are current and effective and youll design and report on BC plan tests to keep our strategies sharp.
• Third-Party Risk Assessment: Evaluate the business continuity plans of our critical suppliers to minimize risks and ensure they can recover quickly from disruptions.

Your focus will be on designing maintaining and enforcing the systems that keep our people safe and our business functioning across Europe. Youll be part of a supportive & passionate team all working toward the same goal!

If youre ready to make a significant impact and help us create a safer more resilient workplace wed love to hear from you!

What skills do you need to thrive

Essential

• Extensive experience in a risk & crisis management/business continuity position within a European organisation
• Excellent Microsoft Excel ability
• Planned & executed testing experience
• A date-first mentality with a passion for creating insight-based reporting dashboards
• A resilient nature with an ability to remain calm and composed when faced with pressure

Desirable

• Travel risk exposure/experience (this is an ever-increasing element of the role)
• Knowledge and/or experience of working with an Emergency Notification System (ENS)

Our Recruitment Process

Your initial application (made via our official portal) will be carefully reviewed by one of our experienced Talent Acquisition Partners. If your presented profile meets the requirements above wed not hesitate to schedule an initial call with you to learn more about your interest skills and experience.

Next youll get to meet your future line manager. Youll present a case study that well share with you beforehand (to give you plenty of preparation time) which we believe helps us understand how you would handle similar situations at work as well as giving you a good idea of the kind of work youll be doing.

Finally we would be delighted to invite you to our European HQ in Weybridge to meet with the wider team. This visit will allow you to meet your future colleagues experience the commute and get a sense of your future work environment.

Your new office

Weybridge

Based at the Weybridge office you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator with classes on set days in the mornings at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if youve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme) or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together respect each other and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys respect their suggestions then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles in a wide range of countries with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sonys purpose to fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries Sony Europe caters to consumer professional semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now and lets create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race colour religion gender citizenship ancestry age physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity medical condition or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests please contact us by email at or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited Human Resources Department the Heights Brooklands Surrey KT13 0XW UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for and the accommodation required.