Senior Operational Resilience Specialist

About the role

The Global Operational Resilience team at Allianz Commercial delivers a wide range of first line defense elements to protect the company's business processes, IT assets, employees, and physical locations against threats. This includes Information Security, Business Continuity Management, Crisis Management, Global Incident Management, External Fraud, and Physical Security.

Responsibilities

• Design and continuously improve first-line defense frameworks for information security, business continuity, crisis management, incident management, external fraud prevention, and physical security to ensure critical operations can withstand and recover from disruptions.
• Maintain regulatory compliance and governance by monitoring adherence to regulatory requirements, conducting risk assessments and audits, and maintaining clear documentation, reporting, and control frameworks across all resilience activities.
• Lead resilience planning and testing by delivering activities such as business impact analyses, developing and maintaining continuity and crisis plans, leading regular crisis simulations and business continuity tests to validate preparedness and identify improvement areas.
• Manage incidents and coordinate response by acting as a key contact during operational disruptions, supporting incident and crisis response, coordinating regulatory notifications, and ensuring timely escalation and resolution when needed.
• Drive governance, reporting, and risk insights by maintaining resilience registers, delivering regular reporting to senior stakeholders, and monitoring regulatory developments to keep frameworks up to date.
• Engage, train, and influence stakeholders by providing expert guidance to leaders and teams, translating complex regulatory requirements into practical actions, and delivering training and awareness initiatives to build a strong operational resilience culture across the region.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in one or several safeguarding functions such as incident management, business continuity, data protection, compliance, information security, or physical security. A project management-related working style, ability to influence without authority, and the ability to remain calm and effective in high-intensity periods are essential. A bachelor's degree in business, technology, or political science fields is preferred. Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship is required.

Qualifications

Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial.

Skills

Ability to influence without authority, steering resilience topics across local teams in North America; ability to remain calm and effective in high-intensity periods; confidence to drive own topics independently; willingness to work with teams across time zones; experience in managing incidents and coordinating response; driving governance, reporting, and risk insights; engaging, training, and influencing stakeholders; providing expert guidance to leaders and teams; translating complex regulatory requirements into practical actions; delivering training and awareness initiatives to build a strong operational resilience culture.

Benefits

Annualized base pay range for this role in O’Fallon is $120,000 - $140,000. Annualized base pay range for this role in Alpharetta is $125,000 - $150,000. The annual base salary range represents a nationwide market range. The actual salary for this position may be above and will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate.

Pay

The annualized base pay range for this role in O’Fallon is $120,000 - $140,000. The annualized base pay range for this role in Alpharetta is $125,000 - $150,000.

Schedule

This role is full-time.

Application Instructions

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not contact managers directly.