Business Continuity Manager

Key Accountabilities or Duties

• To manage the continual development and delivery of Business Continuity other aligned organisational resilience work streams
• To support in the delivery, awareness and alignment with appropriate international standards e.g ISO 22301 & ISO 22313 & ISO 22316
• Delivery of and compliance with all statutory, regulatory and licence requirements relating to Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation
• Provide Business Continuity awareness training and promotion of the Business Continuity Management system to relevant stakeholders
• Proactively support in the development, implementation, assessment, monitoring and communications of all BCMS risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plans and processes for the company.
• Development of Business Continuity testing and Crisis Management exercise scenarios
• Host and facilitate a variety of scenario based and live exercises to test organisational readiness, and response team capabilities via an annual program, regular maintenance, and internal and independent review
• Maintain Crisis management plans

Skills & Experience

• Knowledge and experience in either the field of Business continuity back-up by a professional qualification such as CBCI or equivalent
• Experience in the coordination and management relationship for Business continuity
• Experience and an appreciation of risk and incident management, business impact analysis and recovery plans
• An understanding and appreciation of International standards ISO 22301, ISO 22313, 22316, ITIL and CoBIT frameworks
• Comfortably deals with concepts and complexity in a dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with confidence to both support and challenge at all levels
• Builds constructive and effective relationships across all levels of the organisation
• Manages themselves effectively to get things done, and can work on multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives
• Personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve themselves
• Excellent communication both in writing and face to face
• Uses time effectively and efficiently to manage a broad range of activities
• Ability communicate cross functionally at all levels of the business's internally and with external relationships
• Ability to identify issues, propose solutions and solve problems
• Manages and motivate themselves effectively to get things done, and can work on multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives