Business Continuity Planner

Gold Group; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Gold Group is seeking a skilled Business Continuity Planner in Milton Keynes to review and enhance the Business Continuity Management System and risk analysis for hosting solutions. You will develop disaster recovery strategies, document threats and prepare response activities, and facilitate resilience exercises.

You will act as a SME for resilience, engage stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in processes to protect critical operations.

Qualifications

• Membership in relevant resilience institutes or equivalent preferred.
• Proven experience across business continuity, disaster recovery and related disciplines.
• Knowledge of resilience standards, legislation and best practice.
• Ability to apply risk analysis to hosting solutions and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Execute and monitor Resilience strategies and KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
• Advise leadership on risk awareness and resilience readiness.
• Develop and maintain business continuity and contingency plans and exercises.
• Coordinate external suppliers and report on resilience effectiveness.

Skills

Resilience disciplines

BC/DR knowledge

Incident management

Regulatory awareness

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Business Continuity Planner (BBBH74482) Milton Keynes, England

Job Title: Business Continuity Planner

Location: Milton Keynes

Description:

Review, revise and further develop the current Business Continuity Management System in use and further develop the risk analysis of the current and future hosting solution. Conduct application business impact analysis where required to ascertain the requirements of individual applications. Develop and define disaster recovery strategies and plans. Identify and document all probable threats and develop individual response activities for each that precede disaster recovery actions. Produce a completed Business continuity and disaster recovery plan. Prepare, plan and facilitate a number of Business continuity and disaster recovery plan training exercises. Provide expert advice and guidance in terms of designing, documenting, delivering and operating services and technologies relating to. Provide expert advice and guidance in terms of designing, documenting, delivering and operating services and technologies relating to Business continuity and disaster recovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Execution and monitoring of Resilience* strategies and processes, utilising KPIs to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of these and create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Subject Matter Specialist for the provision of advice to the functions leadership team to provide awareness and an ability to manage and respond to risks.
• Delivery of Resilience activities for the function including development, maintenance and continuous improvement of processes to manage Business Impact Analyses and Contingency Plans; to plan for the functions preparedness.
• Support in the creation and delivery of an Exercise Programme and delivery of assurance activities to the functions leadership teams, in order to provide confidence in the functions preparedness.

Review and articulate internal, external, regulatory and legal requirements and relationships for resilience that the function must adhere to, providing assurance on the functions position.

• Engage with external stakeholders, acting as the functions Resilience Specialist, to influence resilience with interested parties including those from the wider rail industry, regulators and government.
• Facilitate the promotion of Resilience within the function through the influencing of key stakeholders and driving a change in behaviours such that Resilience becomes embedded into business processes.
• Undertake detailed reviews of technical solutions and plans to ascertain their level of resilience and produce detailed reports, encompassing recommendations to the functions Leadership Team.
• Operational management of external suppliers to assess that their activities deliver against the needs of the organisation, identifying mitigation strategies for where critical activities are not protected.

* Resilience refers to Operational Resilience, Business Continuity and Crisis Management.

Qualifications

• Membership of a relevant professional institute (e.g. AMBCI)
  
• Proven experience in one or more resilience disciplines (e.g. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management and Emergency Planning)
• Knowledge and experience in a range of technologies/tools for Continuity planning and execution.
• Demonstrable knowledge of resilience standards, legislation and best practice