Business Continuity Manager

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is seeking a Business Continuity Manager to lead efforts in managing service continuity and disaster recovery planning. This role is vital for ensuring business teams can operate effectively during incidents, with a focus on resilience and maintenance of services. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of business continuity management, relevant certifications, and experience working alongside non-technical business functions.

Benefits

Flexible working

Supportive and inclusive environment

Qualifications

• BCM Institute professional certification in business continuity management / disaster recovery at Specialist level.
• Expert understanding of industry standards for implementing BCM/DR such as ISO 22301/22313.
• Experience in translating business continuity needs into actionable plans.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Work with teams to identify service requirements for business continuity management.
• Maintain effective working during incidents and provide a swift recovery.

Skills

Business continuity management

Disaster recovery

IT systems analysis

Education

BCM Institute certification

Job description

Go back NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Business Continuity Manager

The closing date is 15 June 2025

Are you a passionate about managing live business services continuity and ensuring that end users, customers and IT teams understand how to plan for service disruption and recovery?If so we would love to hear from you!

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is going through an exciting period of change and rapid growth and there could not be a better time to join us.

As Business Continuity Manager you will play a pivotal role in supporting NICE achieve its ambitions to be an organisation as brilliant as the people in it by delivering stable, cloud first, secure by design, user focused services that improve employee effectiveness.

Interviews will be held on the 23rd June 2025.

Main duties of the job

Building on extensive experience in the area, you will play a critical role in preparing and protecting NICE from potential disruptions, ensuring that business teams can maintain effective working during incidents and swiftly recover afterwards.

You will work with teams across NICE to understand gaps and service requirements for business continuity management (BCM) and the IT/digital services and systems that support this.

The scope is the full DIT portfolio from c. 30 inhouse built services such as the NICE Website, to services enabling internal operational and productivity working like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics.

You will:o Drive the development and maturity of business continuity and disaster recovery plans to minimize the impact of unforeseen events such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks, or other emergencies that cause disruption to normal workingo Create a disaster recovery strategy for all employee enabling services eg M365 and ensure appropriate organisation communications and training is in placeo Work with the engineering teams within DIT to identify disaster recovery measures to meet organisation business continuity needs/service levels and implement theseo Analyse technical systems/services and infrastructure to identify areas for improvement relating to availability, capacity, resilience and data loss prevention within the business continuity context.

About us

The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) with analytics and insight to develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services. We play a key role in the implementation of NICE's digital transformation programme.

The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries and BNF which attract more than 2 million users a month. The Live Services Manager role sits within the Infrastructure and Operations function which manages cloud and on-premise infrastructure, networks and telephony for NICE as well as the Service Desk.

We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you should be able demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process.Please ensure that you demonstrate in your supporting statement how you meet each of the shortlisting requirements individually, providing real life examples of your work.

Please note that applications may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.

Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education

• BCM Institute professional certification in business continuity management / disaster recovery at Specialist level or similar industry standard

Experience

• Experience of working with non-technical business functions to analyse their business continuity needs and translate them into clear actionable recommendations and plans

Experience

• Experience of providing assurance to executive team level boards on BCM matters

Experience

• Experience of matrix management of IT/Digital professionals to achieve business outcomes

Skills

• Expert understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery in an IT/digital context including in depth knowledge of industry standards and frameworks for implementing BCM/DR eg ISO 22301/22313

Experience

• Knowledge of how to measure and monitor infrastructure performance, risks and dependencies to support effective identification of disaster recovery and resilience needs

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence