Manager, Business Continuity

NRF United Kingdom; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) and profit-sharing plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP seeks a seasoned Business Continuity Manager to lead the continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience program. You will connect planning with critical IT components, review vendor resiliency, and guide executives through recovery priorities.

In this role you will maintain plans, coordinate exercises, and drive readiness across cloud and SaaS services, ensuring documentation remains accurate and actionable for senior leadership and client commitments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, or operational resilience.
• CBCP or comparable certification preferred.
• Ability to operate with credibility and independence in senior-level discussions, influencing stakeholders and driving alignment without direct supervisory authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and clear thinking under pressure.
• Familiarity with resilience expectations in regulated or client-sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Business Continuity Program resources, including planning documents, procedures, contacts, and supporting artifacts.
• Conduct business impact, risk, and dependency analysis to identify continuity gaps and mitigation opportunities.
• Engage senior Firm leaders to map critical functions, IT dependencies, recovery priorities, and continuity risks.
• Develop and maintain business continuity, crisis management, and response plans.
• Assess critical cloud and SaaS services against continuity requirements and document risks.
• Administer the emergency notification platform, train staff, and support alerts during exercises or actual events.
• Plan and document business continuity and disaster recovery exercises for weather, disruption, technology outage, pandemic, or similar scenarios.
• Preserve continuity of knowledge through handoff documentation and lessons learned.
• Incorporate client expectations, regulatory considerations, and industry practices into continuity planning.

Skills

BCP experience

CBCP certification

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Education

No formal degree requirement

Job description

Job Description

At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors. The Business Continuity Manager supports the Firm’s business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience program. It maintains business continuity plans, emergency notification capabilities, and program documentation. This role reports to the Director, IT Infrastructure Services and works directly with Firm Leadership, Chiefs, Directors, and senior functional stakeholders to connect Business Continuity planning with critical business processes and supporting IT components. The position works to reduce continuity risk and improve readiness through exercises, lessons learned, and industry practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Business Continuity Program resources, including planning documents, procedures, contacts, and supporting artifacts.
• Conduct business impact, risk, and dependency analysis to identify continuity gaps, hidden assumptions, and mitigation opportunities.
• Engage senior Firm leaders, Chiefs, Directors, and key functional stakeholders to map critical functions, IT dependencies, recovery priorities, and continuity risks.
• Develop, update, and maintain business continuity, crisis management, and response plan so documentation remains accurate and actionable.
• Assess critical cloud and SaaS services against business continuity requirements, documenting recovery assumptions, vendor service commitments, resiliency capabilities, and associated continuity risks.
• Administer the emergency notification platform, maintain user data, train staff, and support alerts during exercises or actual events.
• Plan, facilitate, and document business continuity and disaster recovery exercises for weather, office disruption, technology outage, pandemic, or similar scenarios.
• Preserve continuity of knowledge through clear handoff documentation, lessons learned, and repeatable processes for critical program activities.
• Incorporate applicable client expectations, regulatory considerations, and industry practices into continuity planning recommendations.
• Coordinate remediation tracking and stakeholder communications to strengthen program readiness and continuous improvement.

Other duties Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the colleague for this job.

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications and job-related skills

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, or operational resilience.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and exercising continuity plans, crisis plans, emergency notifications, and supporting documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with credibility and independence in senior-level discussions, influencing stakeholders and driving alignment without direct supervisory authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail, sound judgment, and clear thinking under pressure.
• Familiarity with resilience expectations in regulated or client-sensitive environments.
• DRII Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or comparable certification preferred.

Benefits

• Benefit packages include access to three medical insurance plans, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible.
• Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.
• Employees may also access commuter benefits where applicable and student loan assistance refinancing options.
• In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm.
• The firm offers a generous paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave (parental leave) benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn or adopted child(ren).
• Employees may also access child care support through a back-up care program.
• Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.

Equal Opportunity and Disability Accommodation

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact [e-mail]. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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About the Firm

Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. The global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. With its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized for its client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.