Director – Enterprise Business Continuity Management

Director – Enterprise Business Continuity Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Risk Management, Operational Resilience, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, or Operational Resilience
• Proven experience building and leading mature enterprise business continuity programs
• Demonstrated ability to evolve continuity programs toward holistic operational resilience models
• Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company’s business
• Experience using Open Pages, Fusion Risk Management and ServiceNow
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
• Ability to rapidly find, assimilate and correlate information correctly.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills and solution oriented
• Demonstrated ability to influence with comfort and ability working between organizational structures to effect significant change, self-starter comfortable working independently and within a team environment
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to connect, build relationships and influence business leaders, across all levels
• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to benefit of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise-wide business continuity program, ensuring business units have robust, actionable plans that protect critical operations and enable timely recovery during disruptions.
• Oversee the execution of business impact assessments, continuity planning/testing, and recovery strategy development across all business lines.
• Help lead the organization’s shift toward an integrated Operational Resilience model, embedding resilience thinking across services, processes, and systems.
• Partner with the BC community to assess and refine recovery strategies based on changes in business operations, technology, and risk environment.
• Establish and manage governance structures to oversee business continuity and resilience program performance and continuous improvement.
• Oversee resilience testing, scenario analysis, and lessons-learned frameworks that complement business continuity planning.
• Collaborate with all business units, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Technology and Third-Party risk teams to ensure cross-functional integration and resilience.
• Champion a resilience-driven culture by providing training, awareness, and engagement programs across all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.