Operational Resilience Director
Job description
We are partnering with a leading regional organisation in the financial sector to hire an Operational Resilience Director to strengthen enterprise-wide resilience, continuity planning, and disruption response capabilities. This is a senior leadership role focused on reducing operational disruption, improving preparedness, and ensuring the organisation can respond effectively to incidents while meeting regulatory and governance expectations.
If you are an experienced resilience, business continuity, or risk leader who enjoys building enterprise frameworks, engaging senior stakeholders, and improving organisational readiness, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. This is a permanent role based in the Philippines.
Responsibilities
Leading the organisation’s operational resilience and continuity agenda, ensuring resilience priorities are aligned with broader business objectives and risk considerations.
Overseeing enterprise-wide resilience assessments and planning activities, helping business units identify vulnerabilities and improve readiness for disruption scenarios.
Directing continuity planning, simulation exercises, and response preparedness activities so that critical services and processes can recover effectively during major incidents.
Driving awareness, training, and stakeholder engagement initiatives to embed resilience practices across the organisation and strengthen response capability.
Monitoring governance, regulatory, and audit expectations, providing clear management reporting, and leading ongoing enhancement initiatives based on lessons learned and emerging practices.
Requirements
Significant experience in operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, enterprise risk, or related disciplines within large, complex organisations.
Proven ability to lead enterprise-wide resilience or continuity programmes, including planning, testing, and cross-functional incident response coordination.
Strong understanding of governance, regulatory, and control expectations relevant to resilience and operational risk management.
Experience engaging senior stakeholders, committees, and business leaders, with the ability to communicate clearly and influence decision-making across the organisation.
Strong leadership, programme management, and continuous improvement capabilities, with a track record of building practical frameworks and driving adoption across diverse teams.
If you are an experienced resilience or business continuity leader who wants to shape enterprise-wide preparedness in a complex, regulated environment, please apply with your CV or reach out to april@tenten-partners.com in confidence to explore this opportunity further.
Equal Opportunity Statement
TENTEN Partners is an equal opportunity firm and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws.