Business Continuity & Crisis Management Manager

About us
Tate and Lyle is a successful organisation with a clear purpose ambition strategy and strong expert talent solely focused on achieving its ambition as a world class ingredients solutions provider. We have expanded our plant-based footprint beyond corn into tapioca stevia leaf chickpea protein and soluble fibre to explore wider platforms for achieving our ambition. Achieving this ambition will require; development of new capabilities reallocation of resources and investment to become a leaner more agile company leveraging latest technology process insight and ways of working.

About the role

The Business Continuity & Crisis Management Manager plays a key role in supporting the Group Head of Internal Audit & Risk in developing maintaining and enhancing the Groups business continuity (BC) and crisis management (CM) frameworks. Working across all functions and geographies the role ensures the organisation is prepared for disruption capable of responding effectively and able to recover operations with minimal impact.

The role will coordinate continuity planning lead crisis management exercises ensure documentation is robust and up to date and support the business in understanding and fulfilling its resilience responsibilities. It plays a key part in strengthening organisational preparedness and protecting Tate & Lyles people operations and reputation.

Accountabilities:

Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

• Maintain and improve the Groups BCP framework methodologies and guidance ensuring plans remain aligned to best practice and reflect evolving business operations risk exposures and regulatory expectations.

• Coordinate the review of Business Impact Analysis (BIAs) BC and recovery plans across the Group.

Crisis Management (CM)

• Manage and maintain the Groups CM framework. Ensuring clear roles responsibilities escalation processes documentation and supporting materials and full framework alignment across Regions and Group.

• Facilitate crisis simulation exercises and training sessions

• Provide guidance during live incidents supporting mobilisation communication and postincident review.

Testing Training & Awareness

• Develop and deliver training sessions workshops and awareness programmes to strengthen business continuity and crisis readiness across the organisation.

• Capture lessons learned and embed improvements.

Reporting

• Prepare regular reporting and updates for senior stakeholders and Committees including; action tracking and monitoring overall maturity against industry standards updates on emerging threats resilience trends and evolving regulatory expectations.

• Identify opportunities to enhance resilience capability tools and processes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Support

• Build strong relationships with functional leads site managers and crisis response teams.

• Provide guidance and coaching to ensure BC and CM expectations are understood / met.

• Work closely with key business partners (IT Operations Supply Chain and HR) on resilience-related risks and dependencies.

About you

• Strong understanding of business unit / function policies objectives operations and related activities.

• Good specialist working knowledge of recognised standards such as ISO 22301 ISO 22313 or similar continuity and crisis management frameworks.

• Strong experience in business continuity crisis management or operational resilience

• Experience conducting Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) developing Business Continuity Frameworks and coordinating regular reviews.

• Solid experience in resolving issues that are complex or unusual requiring original thought research new approaches and analytical techniques provides advice and guidance through technical knowledge research and analysis which impact the performance of the team.

• Accountable for meeting own targets which may impact the discipline. May be accountable for a project delivery responsible for time cost and resource management of a project.

• Confidence facilitating crisis simulations tabletop exercises training sessions and workshops with crossfunctional teams.

• Excellent communication and coaching skills with the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders and embed strong continuity practices.

• Analytical thinking with the ability to identify risks dependencies vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities.

• A calm logical and structured approach to incident response with experience supporting or coordinating realtime events desirable.

• Experience working within a global or multisite organisation is an advantage.

• Comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels with the ability to influence and build relationships.

• A proactive selfstarting approach; comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively.

• Ability to adapt styles and interpret and explain information to differing audiences from inside and/or outside the organisation who are not familiar with the subject matter.

• Adaptable comfortable with ambiguity and culturally aware. Structured and motivated to strengthen organisational resilience.

• Enjoys helping teams prepare for disruption building capability and supporting people through uncertainty.

What Youll Get
As business operating in 50 countries worldwide we offer a global rewards package to all employees alongside a range of country-specific benefits. The global package includes a bonus scheme 16-week Equal Parental Leave and mental health & well-being support.

• Flexible working policy

• Competitive salary

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Excellent employer pension contribution

• Personal private medical insurance

• Life assurance

Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.