AVP, Third Party BCM Resilience Manager

About the role

The AVP, Third Party BCM Resilience Manager supports the implementation and enhancement of the Group's Third-Party Resilience programme, ensuring that critical third-party dependencies underpinning the Bank's Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Critical Business Services (CBS) are assessed, governed and monitored. The role strengthens Third Party BCM execution, improves dependency and concentration risk insights and supports readiness for emerging risks such as GenAI, cloud and evolving regulatory expectations. It is based at the DBS Asia Hub, on a regular schedule, full time.

Key responsibilities

• Support delivery of Third Party BCM requirements, governance, attestations, resilience assessments, assurance activities and regulatory commitments across OSPs and relevant NOAs.
• Improve dependency mapping, concentration risk assessment, resilience analytics, dashboards and process automation.
• Support capability development for GenAI, cloud, digital ecosystems, systemic third-party dependencies and evolving resilience expectations.
• Work with BUs, SUs, SDMs, Contract Owners, Third Party Managers, Procurement, Technology, Operational Risk and Information Security to embed Third Party Resilience across the third-party lifecycle.
• Prepare management updates, governance materials and regulatory inputs on third-party resilience risks, issues and remediation.
• Coordinate annual attestations, assurance reviews, resilience assessments and follow-up actions across locations.
• Review Extended Disruption Plans, recovery strategies, remediation plans and continuity evidence for completeness and consistency.
• Maintain visibility of critical third-party dependencies supporting CBS, including key suppliers, subcontractors, technologies, locations and recovery arrangements.
• Develop dashboards and management insights on concentration risks, control gaps and remediation progress.
• Assess third-party resilience implications from GenAI, cloud providers, digital ecosystems and shared industry infrastructure.
• Support regulatory horizon scanning and implementation planning for MAS and industry developments on BCM, operational resilience and third-party risk.

Required profile

• Minimum 7 years of experience in BCM, Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management, Outsourcing Governance, technology risk or operational risk.
• Knowledge of third-party resilience activities, including attestations, resilience assessments, Extended Disruption Plans, recovery strategies and assurance reviews.
• Working knowledge of MAS requirements on outsourcing, technology risk, business continuity, operational resilience and third-party risk.
• Experience in dashboarding, data analytics or process automation.
• Exposure to GenAI, cloud, digital ecosystems or emerging technology resilience topics is advantageous.