Readiness, Testing and Exercise Specialist

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Sky Group Full time

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As a Readiness, Testing and Exercise Specialist, you will play a critical role in ensuring the preparedness and effectiveness of Sky in facing various challenges and crises. You will be responsible for designing, planning, executing, and evaluating a range of tests and exercises aimed at assessing and improving the resilience of our systems, processes, and personnel. This role demands a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across different departments and senior leadership.



What you'll do:
  • Own, manage and support the delivery of the Emergency Readiness and Response exercise programme.
  • Support with the implementation of the readiness and response strategy by helping to shape and deliver key strategic documentation
  • Be part of the on-call rota for responding to serious incidents and emergencies.
  • Design realistic and challenging tabletop, functional, and full-scale exercises that simulate various crisis situations.


What you'll bring:
  • You have excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels; confident, capable and credible in front of senior partners.
  • You have an excellent understanding of how to run a successful exercise and can demonstrate the value it adds.
  • Strong problem solver, able to analyse and understand issues, problems or challenges and develop solutions to them.
  • Has the proven ability to think outside of the box, challenge industry norms and adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
  • Strong stakeholder management, relationship building, influencing, facilitating, and presenting skills at every level of business.
  • Works iteratively, at a high tempo, delivering quickly and frequently to produce high quality documents and outputs which require little to no rework.
  • Is calm under pressure and can execute clear command & control measures in stressful situations.


The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

A generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences



How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

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