Business Continuity & Resilience Lead

Columbia Bank; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Mental health resources

Paid vacation

Job summary

Columbia Bank is seeking a Business Resilience professional to lead regulatory and operational risk management across the bank. You will collaborate with stakeholders to implement mitigation strategies, monitor risk, and support incident and crisis management.

This role drives business continuity, disaster recovery, training, and awareness to ensure readiness and compliance with bank regulations across the organization.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of risk management, emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and/or safety experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or related discipline preferred.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong ability to independently manage multiple complex work efforts.
• Strong organizational, decision making and analytical skills; ability to work independently or in a team.
• Experience in training and presenting to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Resilience programs through consultation, analysis, strategy recommendations, and resilience applications.
• Support full life-cycle business continuity management and disaster recovery planning, response and recovery activities.
• Identify critical processes with business units to ensure readiness during disruptions.
• Collaborate with experts to reduce risk and select recovery strategies.
• Monitor program milestones including training, analyses, planning and testing.
• Assist with emergency management, crisis response and disaster recovery planning.
• Lead cross-functional risk initiatives affecting multiple units and risk disciplines.
• Deliver threat and vulnerability awareness with current internal/external threats.
• Promote a culture of preparedness through training and awareness materials.
• Analyze complex risk assessments and dependency mapping to boost resiliency.

Skills

Risk management

Emergency management

Business continuity

Disaster recovery

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

GRC

Job description

Columbia Bank is seeking a Business Resilience professional to lead regulatory and operational risk management across the bank. You will collaborate with stakeholders to implement mitigation strategies, monitor risk, and support incident and crisis management.

This role drives business continuity, disaster recovery, training, and awareness to ensure readiness and compliance with bank regulations across the organization.