Head of Business Continuity

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Position Overview

The Head of Business Continuity is a strategic leadership role responsible for ensuring the organization can maintain essential business functions during and after disruptions of any scale. This leader owns the complete BC planning lifecyclefrom Business Impact Analysis through plan development exercising and continuous improvement. The role pioneers a shift from static document-centric planning to dynamic operationally integrated continuity capabilities that enable the business to adapt and respond in real-time. With oversight responsibilities spanning workforce resilience and operational resilience domains this position ensures that people processes and operational capabilities are seamlessly integrated into a cohesive continuity framework that protects critical business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• BC strategy and methodology: Define and maintain enterprise business continuity strategy standards and methodologies aligned with industry best practices and regulatory expectations.
• Business Impact Analysis program: Own the enterprise-wide BIA program ensuring comprehensive identification of critical business processes dependencies and recovery priorities across all business units.
• BC plan coverage: Ensure complete BC plan coverage for all critical business processes with documented strategies procedures and resources required to maintain operations during disruptions.
• Exercise program design: Design and execute a comprehensive BC exercise program including tabletop walkthroughs functional exercises and full-scale simulations that validate plan effectiveness.
• RTO/RPO establishment: Establish and validate RTO/RPO requirements in partnership with business units ensuring recovery objectives align with business criticality and risk tolerance.
• BC technology management: Manage BC planning software tools and platforms that enable efficient plan development maintenance and activation across the enterprise.
• Awareness and training: Drive BC awareness and training programs across the organization building a culture where continuity thinking is embedded in daily operations.
• Technology coordination: Coordinate with IT and Technology Resilience teams to ensure business recovery requirements are translated into appropriate technology recovery capabilities.
• Regulatory alignment: Ensure BC plans address all applicable regulatory requirements industry standards and contractual obligations across jurisdictions.
• Program reporting: Report on BC program health coverage metrics exercise results and improvement initiatives to executive leadership and governance bodies.
• Workforce resilience oversight: Provide dotted-line oversight of Workforce Resilience domain ensuring people-related continuity strategies are integrated into enterprise BC plans.
• Operational resilience oversight: Provide dotted-line oversight of Operational Resilience domain coordinating with business units to ensure process-level continuity capabilities.
• Cross-domain integration: Integrate workforce requirements operational dependencies and business process documentation into cohesive actionable BC plans.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Business continuity expertise: 12 years of progressive experience in business continuity operational resilience or related disciplines within complex enterprise environments.
• Leadership experience: 7 years of leadership experience managing BC teams with demonstrated ability to build programs and develop high-performing continuity professionals.
• Multi-site implementation: Proven experience implementing and maturing BC programs in complex multi-site and geographically distributed organizations.
• Standards expertise: Strong understanding of BC standards and frameworks including ISO 22301 BCI Good Practice Guidelines DRII Professional Practices and ASIS OR standards.
• BC technology proficiency: Experience with BC planning software and platforms such as Archer Fusion Risk Management ServiceNow Castellan or equivalent solutions.
• BIA methodology: Deep expertise in Business Impact Analysis methodologies including quantitative and qualitative assessment techniques.
• Exercise design: Experience designing and facilitating BC exercises across the full spectrum from tabletop discussions to complex functional simulations.
• Executive communication: Ability to translate complex continuity concepts into business-relevant narratives for executive and board-level audiences.
• Education: Bachelors degree required; Masters degree in business administration risk management or related field preferred.
• Certifications: CBCP MBCI or equivalent professional certification required; CBCLA MBCO or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer certifications highly desirable.

Desired Attributes

• Business-focused strategist who understands that continuity planning exists to protect business outcomes not create compliance artifacts.
• Relationship builder who earns trust and partnership across business units making BC planning a collaborative rather than compliance-driven activity.
• Practical problem-solver who designs continuity solutions that are actionable maintainable and realistic for the teams who must execute them.
• Engaging facilitator who designs exercises that challenge participants and generate meaningful insights rather than scripted validations.
• Continuous learner who stays current with evolving BC methodologies operational resilience frameworks and industry disruption trends.

Future Vision (35 Years)

• Dynamic planning: Transition from static annual BC plans to dynamic continuously updated continuity documentation that reflects real-time organizational changes.
• AI-augmented BIA: Leverage AI and machine learning to automate Business Impact Analysis identifying dependencies and predicting disruption impacts across complex value chains.
• Immersive exercises: Deploy simulation technologies that create realistic immersive exercise experiences testing decision-making under pressure without operational risk.
• Operational resilience integration: Evolve traditional BC into operational resilience focusing on end-to-end business service delivery rather than individual process recovery.
• Predictive continuity: Implement predictive analytics that identify emerging threats to business continuity enabling proactive plan adjustments before disruptions occur.
• Embedded resilience culture: Achieve a state where continuity thinking is embedded in business operations with plans maintained as living documents by the teams who own the processes.

Impact of the Role

This role serves as the foundation of enterprise resilience ensuring that business operations can continue when disruptions inevitably occur. As the architect of business continuity strategy and planning the Head of Business Continuity directly impacts the organizations ability to maintain customer commitments preserve revenue streams and protect employee welfare during crises. Through comprehensive BIA programs rigorous exercise strategies and integration with workforce and operational resilience domains this leader transforms continuity from a compliance checkbox into an operational capability that enables confident decision-making when it matters mostpositioning the enterprise as an organization that doesnt just survive disruptions but maintains excellence through them.

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