Business Continuity Lead

Pontoon; North Warwickshire; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Business Continuity Lead to support the Business Continuity Management System. You will coordinate deliverables, assist in Business Impact Analyses, and engage with leadership while ensuring quality content and overall adequacy in BCM elements. The ideal candidate should be comfortable with risk management terms and demonstrate strong communication skills. This role is hybrid and mainly focused on working collaboratively with senior leaders and IT teams.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder engagement is required across all organizational levels.
• Attention to detail is essential, particularly in report production.
• Understanding of the energy sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate business continuity management deliverables.
• Assist in updating the Business Impact Analysis.
• Engage leadership in BIA assessments.
• Report progress and complete the BCM cycle.
• Facilitate workshops/exercises with plan owners.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Attention to detail

Business Continuity terminology

Risk management frameworks

Communication

Job description

Job title: Business Continuity Lead

Location: Warwick/Hybrid

Duration: 6 months initially

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

The role

This position is within our centralised assurance team, reporting to the Enterprise Risk Manager. The primary aim of this temporary role is to support the successful implementation of a planned programme or works, with clear deliverables. The output of the work will be reported directly to the board.

In this role, working alongside our existing BC Lead Co-ordinator, you will play a key part in supporting the Business Continuity Management System and should be comfortable collaborating with senior leaders. Flexibility, adaptability, and a collaborative approach are essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordination of business continuity management (BCM) deliverables.
• Assist with updating the Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Engage leadership in BIA assessments.
• Respond to tracking and monitoring requests reporting on progress and BCM cycle completing from 2nd line assurance sources.
• Ensure content quality and overall adequacy of BCM elements.
• May be asked to participate or observe management and/or other Business Area exercises.
• Provide advice to enable the business to conduct Business Impact Analysis, review, update and exercise Business Continuity Plans.
• Facilitate workshops/ exercises with Plan owners/ deputies and those who have a role within the plan.
• Ensure all teams/ activities have Business Impact Analysis and Business Continuity Plans
• Work collaboratively with IT teams to improve the Disaster Recovery Process for the organisation.

Requirements

• Comfortable with Business Continuity and risk management terminology and standard risk frameworks. Coupled with the ability to break these down, so that those who are not Business Continuity/ risk and control specialists can comfortably contribute.
• Ability to communicate findings across a breadth of stakeholders.
• Attention to detail, evident in observations and in the production of targeted reports.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement. Able to work effectively across all levels of the organisation.
• An understanding of the energy sector is desirable

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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