AMS PSR

On behalf of National Savings & Investments, we are looking for a Business Resilience Lead Inside IR35  for a 9 months contract based Hybrid 2 days a week in either London, Lytham, Durham or Glasgow

NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £218 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back more than 150 years to 1861.

A small company with a big reach. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively.

This role is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard and financial credit checks.

As a Business Resilience Lead, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead a comprehensive current-state assessment of NS&I’s business continuity and supply chain resilience capability
• Assess NS&I’s ability to manage and assure a multi-supplier ecosystem
• Identify capability gaps across governance, roles, processes, technology and assurance mechanisms
• Identify missing or underdeveloped functions (eg. Operational contract management, supplier assurance)
• Define required roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to strengthen resilience capability
• Design and document an effective operating model aligned to Civil Service best practice, Government frameworks and industry standards
• Develop scenario-based testing frameworks to assess operating model and resilience effectiveness under stress conditions

Essential:

• Demonstrable expertise in Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience and Supply Chain Resilience including experience in leading business continuity or operational resilience programmes in complex environments
• Experience conducting and producing evidence-based capability gap analyses within complex environments
• Experience and strong understanding of multi-supplier ecosystem governance and commercial operating models
• Experience designing and facilitating scenario-based testing and tabletop exercises including executive-level crisis simulations

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NS&I guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

National Savings & Investments guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".