Job Description

Crisis Manager

Responsible for supporting the enhancement, preparedness, and execution of the enterprise crisis management program, ensuring executive readiness and effective response to wide scale incidents affecting colleagues, customers, and the Citizens brand. This role owns administration of the crisis management program, leads development of crisis plans and playbooks, and designs and facilitates leadership tabletop exercises. Partners closely across technology, operations, risk, compliance, and business lines to strengthen enterprise resilience for events impacting customers, funds movement, confidentiality, and brand trust. This role also leads full implementation and ongoing management of an automated crisis microsimulation platform used enterprise wide.

Support and enhance the enterprise crisis management program, including governance, defined roles such as Crisis Management Team and Major Incident Management, escalation paths, and executive decision cadence

Develop, maintain, and socialize crisis management plans, playbooks, call trees, and communications templates for high impact incidents including digital banking outages, payments disruptions, branch and ATM impacts, cyber and fraud events, non technology incidents, and severe weather

Coordinate and lead crisis response activities including activation, situational assessment, customer and financial impact analysis, prioritization, and executive briefings

Facilitate crisis bridge calls and leadership updates, document decisions, risks, and action items, and ensure timely and auditable communications

Partner with Business Continuity, Operational Resilience, IT, Information Security, Fraud, Payments, Branch Operations, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Corporate Communications to align response strategies and customer messaging

Design, plan, and deliver tabletop exercises and simulations to validate readiness for banking specific scenarios such as cyber events, third party disruptions, liquidity related operational impacts, fraud events, and facility or branch closures

Create exercise materials including objectives aligned to control testing, scenarios and injects, controller guides, participant materials, evaluation criteria, and after action templates suitable for audit and regulatory review

Maintain crisis tools including mass notification platforms and collaboration channels, ensuring distribution lists and on call rosters are accurate and regularly tested

Deliver training for crisis leaders and responders covering decision making, customer communications, and regulatory notification considerations

Support audits and regulatory examinations by providing crisis and exercise evidence and documentation aligned to expectations

Lead implementation, ongoing management, and enterprise adoption of the automated crisis management platform iluminr, serving as primary vendor point of contact and ensuring training and effective use across the enterprise

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent relevant experience

At least 3 years of experience in crisis management, major incident management, business continuity, operational resilience, security, cyber, IT service management, or risk management, preferably within banking or other regulated financial services

Working knowledge of banking risk and compliance considerations including customer data protection, third party risk, and audit and exam preparedness

Demonstrated experience facilitating tabletop exercises and leading structured after action reviews

Proven ability to lead under pressure, synthesize incomplete information, and drive timely executive decisions

Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience briefing senior leaders

Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally and influence without direct authority

Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion

Experience coordinating customer and stakeholder communications during incidents impacting banking service availability, including contact center, branch, and digital channel messaging

Experience supporting audit and regulatory exam requests and producing defensible evidence packages within financial services

Familiarity with incident command concepts or major incident management practices

Experience designing complex, multi threaded crisis scenarios spanning cyber, operational disruption, safety, supply chain, and reputational events

Understanding of payments and core banking dependencies such as card networks, ACH, wires, and online banking platforms and how outages translate to customer impact

Experience with mass notification and incident or crisis tooling such as Everbridge, ServiceNow, Jira, Teams, or Zoom

Facilitation skills to guide diverse groups through structured discussions and keep exercises aligned to objectives

Scenario design expertise with ability to build realistic narratives tied to business processes and decision points

Program management capability including planning, stakeholder coordination, action tracking, and continuous improvement

Analytical thinking to identify gaps, root causes, and systemic improvements emerging from incidents and exercises

Clear and concise communication for status updates, executive briefings, and written deliverables

Strong risk and regulatory mindset with ability to translate incidents into operational risk, customer harm considerations, and compliance requirements

Leadership under pressure with ability to prioritize effectively and enable execution

Strong documentation discipline with version control for plans, playbooks, and evidence artifacts

The salary range for this position is $145,000 - $170,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to work location, relevant skills, and experience.

We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity and paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs, and more. Citizens' paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory paid sick or paid time away requirements of local and state jurisdictions within the United States.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

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