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Tesco • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City, UK

Business Resilience Manager

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

This is a new and exciting role that will strengthen Tesco�s overall resilience by setting clear business resilience standards, coordinating delivery across the group, and supporting our global network of resilience teams. You will play a key part in ensuring our critical business activities can continue during disruption, with a particular focus on enhancing Tesco�s resilience to disruptive cyber events.

Working collaboratively across Group Security, Technology, and the wider business, you�ll help shape our approach to business continuity, incident response, and crisis management. You�ll drive continuous improvement through structured planning, effective governance, and innovative use of our Business Resilience Management System. This role is central to embedding strong resilience capability across the organisation and ensuring Tesco can continue to serve customers, no matter what challenges arise.

  • Identifying the risks to our critical business activities and essential processes.

  • Developing solutions to increase Tesco�s resilience to disruptive cyber and other events, working across the business to develop business impact assessments, continuity plans and incident response plans.

  • Developing incident response exercises to test these continuity plans and incident response plans, and working with all business teams to learn from these exercises to strengthen our business processes and crisis readiness. I ensure all resilience documentation is appropriately recorded in our central systems.

  • Working closely with our Business Resilience Programme Manager to ensure all aspects of our cyber resilience and other planning are aligned to the company�s strategy, and supporting the development of project plans, progress updates and governance documentation.

  • Working closely with our network of Business Resilience Champions, groupwide, to support their professional development.

  • Providing support to our Incident and Crisis Management Teams across the group as required.

  • Driving technical innovation to maximise efficiencies and opportunities in the use of our Business Resilience Management System, and building proficiency across the Business Resilience community through system training.

  • Proficient in workflowbased technology systems�
  • A strong operational track record in Business Continuity and Crisis Management.
  • Project management experience.
  • Experience creating operational and strategic documentation related to business continuity processes.
  • Strong and confident presentation skills.
  • Analytical skills, and the ability to interpret complex information to support effective decisionmaking.

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we�re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone�s welcome. That�s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Additional voluntary pension contribution
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bike parking
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
Company car
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Dental coverage
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts – 10% off and 15% on pay day weekends
Employee phone programme
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced paternity leave – 6 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced pension match/contribution – up to 7.5% matching
Equity packages
Ergonomic workstations
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Fertility treatment leave
Financial advice
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Gym membership
Health assessment
Health insurance
In house training
L&D budget
Learning platform
Legal consults
Life assurance – Five times your pay
Life insurance
Learning license
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Modern office
On-site barista
On-site catering
On-site gym
On-site personal trainer
On-site shower
On-site wellness room
On-site wellness services
On-site workout classes
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave
Personal development budgets
Personal development days
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Referral bonus
Religious celebration leave
Relocation packages
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary advance
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Share options
Skilled worker visas
Sports teams
Study support
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Tree planting
Volunteer days
Wellbeing incentive programme
Open to compressed hours

Working at Tesco

Company employees:

330,000+

Gender diversity (m:f):

49:51

Hiring in countries

Ireland

United Kingdom

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