Business Continuity Manager

Resilience Forward; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

East Midlands Airport is seeking an experienced business continuity professional to embed a culture of resilience across the airport. The role focuses on developing and maintaining a robust BCMS aligned with ISO 22301, and on delivering dynamic, risk-based continuity plans for all critical operations.

You will work with multiple stakeholdersfrom frontline staff to directors, ensuring effective testing, audits, and management information. CBCI qualification is the minimum requirement.

Qualifications

• CBCI qualification (minimum).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to engage with audiences from operational staff to directors.

Responsibilities

• Embedding a culture of business continuity and resilience across the airport, engaging all relevant stakeholders to take ownership of business continuity in their area.
• Ensuring that a robust and effective business continuity management system (BCMS) is in place which is aligned with ISO 22301 requirements.
• Developing, maintaining, and delivering dynamic, risk-based plans for business continuity at EMA, ensuring that all risks identified on the airport’s risk register have continuity plans in place in the event of the risk transpiring.
• Supporting all departments to develop effective business impact analyses and continuity plans which are trained, documented, and embedded.
• Implementing an effective testing and validation programme which ensures the effectiveness of business continuity plans.
• Developing and maintaining an audit programme for business continuity at EMA which is aligned with internal, group, and external audit programmes.
• Developing tools to support the timely and accurate provision of management information on business continuity, using technological solutions where possible to make the process as efficient as possible.

Skills

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Presentation skills

Education

CBCI qualification

Job description

This is a rare opportunity to join the resilience team at East Midlands Airport, taking a key role in strengthening how the airport prepares for, responds to, and recovers from business disruption. Working across a complex and fast-paced operational environment, you’ll collaborate with colleagues at every level of the organization as well as a wide range of external partners. You’ll help shape and embed the organization’s approach to business continuity, ensuring the organization has robust, practical, and well-tested plans in place to protect its critical operations.

The organization is looking for an experienced business continuity professional who is CBCI qualified as a minimum, with excellent communication and influencing skills and the confidence to engage and present effectively with audiences ranging from operational colleagues to director level.

Job role:

• Embedding a culture of business continuity and resilience across the airport, engaging all relevant stakeholders to take ownership of business continuity in their area.
• Ensuring that a robust and effective business continuity management system (BCMS) is in place which is aligned with ISO 22301 requirements.
• Developing, maintaining, and delivering dynamic, risk-based plans for business continuity at EMA, ensuring that all risks identified on the airport’s risk register have continuity plans in place in the event of the risk transpiring.
• Supporting all departments to develop effective business impact analyses and continuity plans which are trained, documented, and embedded.
• Implementing an effective testing and validation programme which ensures the effectiveness of business continuity plans.
• Developing and maintaining an audit programme for business continuity at EMA which is aligned with internal, group, and external audit programmes.
• Developing tools to support the timely and accurate provision of management information on business continuity, using technological solutions where possible to make the process as efficient as possible.