Global Crisis Management, Vice President

State Street

Vice President leading global crisis management initiatives at State Street. Overseeing crisis simulation exercises to ensure operational and technological resilience.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeKrakow • 🇵🇱 PolandLead💰 PLN 282,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Spearhead comprehensive end-to-end planning, design, execution, and evaluation of crisis resiliency exercises, ensuring alignment to State Street’s operational resilience standards, impact tolerances, and global regulatory frameworks.
Collaborate with key stakeholders throughout the bank to create customized, detailed, crisis exercises that meet specific objectives for all-hazards incident and crisis response, with a focus on severe but plausible threats that impact business, technology, and cyber resilience.
Conduct thorough post-exercise analysis, synthesize corrective actions, manage tracking and monitoring of progress, and plan future simulations to confirm the efficacy of implemented improvements.
Manage all aspects of crisis exercise project management across the engagement lifecycle, including scheduling exercises, booking venues, leading discussions with executive leadership, and updating senior leaders on project progress.
Serve as a crisis manager when required, facilitating crisis management calls, publishing situation reports, and conducting after incident reviews.
Maintain departmental policies, standards, procedures, and control portfolio.
Execute incident management and regulatory reporting activities under the DORA regime.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Business continuity certifications such as CBCP, MBCP, or MBCI are preferred
Exceptional expertise and substantial experience (10+ years) in planning, designing, and leading crisis exercises for an executive audience at large corporate, multinational financial institutions with a focus on severe but plausible scenarios, including: loss of vendor/counterparty, IT disaster recovery events, cyber incidents, geopolitical tensions, and pandemics, ensuring crisis response strategy and procedures become “muscle memory”, and are seamlessly integrated across the bank.
Good knowledge of DORA requirements in the area of incident management and reporting.
Executive presence - comfortable, confident and effective in interacting with all levels of senior and executive leadership, as well as industry regulators.
Extensive knowledge around the operation of key international financial systems, an understanding of the current threat landscape, operational resilience and international regulatory considerations, and systemic risk scenarios.
Outstanding organizational skills required to manage multiple, complex projects collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders, subject matter experts, and senior leaders, effectively building requirements and executing against objectives and key results.
Exceptional writing skills, communication abilities, and expert-level proficiency in producing exercise decks in PowerPoint, and writing detailed after-action reviews.
A background in metrics development, risk analysis & visualization is a plus.
Hands-on experience leading crisis response calls at the executive level, business continuity, disaster recovery, and playbook creation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Permanent contract from day one
Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)
Gold Medical Package for employees and their families (partner and children)
Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs
Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
Variety of well-being programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

crisis managementbusiness continuity planningdisaster recoveryincident managementrisk analysisproject managementexercise designpost-exercise analysismetrics developmentcyber resilience

Soft Skills

organizational skillscommunication abilitiesexecutive presencecollaborationleadershipwriting skillsstakeholder managementanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingadaptability

Certifications

CBCPMBCPMBCI