Manager - Business Continuity Planning (6-8 yrs)

Roles & Responsibilities :The Business Continuity Manager will work with the Head of Corporate Security & Business Resilience to:

- Develop and maintain the organization's Business Continuity Management programme and ensure links to wider resilience functions.

- Support all business planning activities necessary to enable the organization to manage a crisis event as well as meet compliance requirements for BCP planning.

- Work with all businesses/depts to develop/maintain and improve the corporate wide BCP program that addresses business recovery and emergency response management.

- Liaise with key infrastructure teams to identify gaps, set recovery time objectives and convey business needs/expectations.

- Undertake, document and maintain Business Impact Analysis and Recovery Plans.

- Ensure all relevant documents and arrangements are reviewed and validated on a regular basis including testing and exercising.

- Debrief validation activities and incident responses to ensure notable practice and lessons identified are captured, recommendations are made and implemented, ensuring continuous improvement.

- Identify and make recommendations for change and adaptation to meet the needs of the business

- Identify and make recommendations for solutions to infrastructure and business challenges

- Develop and maintain an effective validation programme to ensure that arrangements are tested and exercised on a regular basis.

- Communicate Business Continuity and Resilience related information to key stakeholders.

- Provide visibility and reporting to the Board/Executive Committee on resilience activities, critical functions, infrastructure and incidents

Years of experience: 6-8 years of experience

Knowledge and experience:

- CBCI/CBCP (or equivalent).

- Understanding the Business Continuity best practices.

- Knowledge of technology and business concepts, life cycles and processes.

- Experience in using BCM tools

- Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills.

Key competencies/behaviors:

- Self-starter with the ability to work with a great degree of autonomy.

- Good team-working and excellent facilitation skills.

- The ability to lead, by example to ensure a resilience culture is promoted throughout the organization;

- Ability to work nights and weekends during a crisis event.