Business Continuity & Security Advisor

Linklaters; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybrid; PLN 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Free in-house fitness centre

Life insurance

Worldwide travel insurance

Multisport club card or travel card

Training opportunities

Job summary

Linklaters in Warsaw is recruiting for a Business Continuity and Security Advisor. The role sits in the global Operations team handling business continuity, resilience, crisis management, and physical security across offices.

You will coordinate training, tests and incident reviews while liaising with stakeholders to ensure preparedness. The position is hybrid (Warsaw) with two days in the office weekly, contract of employment, and a benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience with business continuity and security roles is required.
• Familiarity with ISO 22301 is preferred.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and offices.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Continuity Management System and ISO 22301 activities.
• Conduct business impact analyses, risk assessments and resilience reviews.
• Maintain continuity plans, crisis playbooks and response procedures.
• Coordinate training, exercises, simulations and call-tree tests.
• Support incident response, crisis escalation and post-incident reviews.
• Assist with physical and travel security and threat monitoring.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across the firm.

Skills

BCP planning

Crisis management

Data analysis

Regulatory compliance

Policy design

Policy development

Project management

Schedule management

Job description

For Linklaters Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Business Continuity and Security Advisor role.

About the Team

Join our global Operations team responsible for business continuity, operational resilience, crisis management and physical security across the office network. Collaborating with local offices, technology teams, suppliers, landlords and other business functions, our team helps protect critical services and improve preparedness.

You will be responsible for

• Supporting the Business Continuity Management System and ISO 22301 activities
• Conducting business impact analyses, risk assessments and resilience reviews
• Maintaining continuity plans, crisis playbooks and response procedures
• Coordinating training, exercises, simulations and call-tree tests
• Supporting incident response, crisis escalation and post-incident reviews
• Assisting with physical security, travel security and threat monitoring
• Building relationships with stakeholders across the firm

Location

Warsaw (hybrid model with 2 days in the office per week)

Contract

• Contract of employment

Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care
• Free in-house fitness centre
• Life insurance
• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel
• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card
• Wide range of training opportunities

About Linklaters

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity.

We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong.

This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set. We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

What sets us apart

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work.

Technical Skills:

• Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Cost Optimization, Data Analysis, Emergency Response and Crisis Management, Inspection Management, Policy Design, Policy Development, Project Management, Regulatory Compliance, Schedule Management

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.