Business Continuity Planner

Business Continuity Planner

Location: Farnborough with flexibility to work from home dependent on business demands

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact

The Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Business Continuity Planner to lead and mature our Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) in alignment withISO 22301standards. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring operational resilience internally and across our vast portfolio of programmes safeguarding mission-critical services and infrastructure.

What will you be doing

• Lead the development implementation maintenance and continuous improvementof the BCMS in accordance with ISO 22301
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIAs)and risk assessments across all functions programmes and bids ensuring alignment with contractualrequirements.
• Design and maintain continuity and recovery strategies including crisis management business continuity disaster recovery and emergency response procedures.
• Coordinate and facilitate exercises and simulations including tabletop and live scenario testing to validate continuity plans.
• Monitor compliance and readiness ensuring all plans meet internal audit standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Engage with internal stakeholders and external partners including customers regulatory bodies and special interest groups to ensure continuity expectations are met.
• Report on BCMS performance including metrics gaps and improvement actions to senior leadership and governance boards.
• Stay current with evolving threats technologies and regulatory changes affecting business continuity throughout our business area

What do we need from you

• Proven experience inbusiness continuity planningwithin adefence government or critical infrastructure environment.
• In-depth knowledge and practical application ofISO 22301and related standards (e.g. ISO 27001).
• Strong understanding ofIT systems cybersecurity and disaster recoveryprinciples.
• Experience conductingBIAs risk assessments and continuity exercises.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills including experience presenting to senior leadership.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant certification such asCertified Business Continuity Professional orISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor
• Member of the Business Continuity Institute
• Experience ofgovernance risk and compliance platformsand continuity planning tools.
• Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2 PMP).

Security Clearance:

Due to the nature of the role candidates must be eligible forDeveloped VettingSecurity Clearance

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration innovation diversity trust caring management communication transparency work-life balance and overall job satisfaction.

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers a collaborative culture and support for your career goals all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance health schemes gym memberships annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging welcoming all perspectives and contributions and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the worldsaferhealthier andmore efficient through technology engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence healthcare government safety and security and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning AI cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home the office or on customer sites we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos we invest in technical academies career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

Were the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We dont wear capes (theyre a safety hazard) but we do solve high-stakes problems with code caffeine and a healthy disregard for how its always been done.

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