Business Continuity Manager

Job description / Role

Our Client
Large scale real state development company

Your Responsibilities
• Assist in developing, documenting, implementing, validating, and maintaining Resilience and Business Continuity Plans and provide clerical duties and logistical support to the Resilience and Business Continuity team.
• Gather and links BC data. Conduct reviews for non-conformity and gather further information in response to routine problems.
• Identify direct cause and effect connections. Break down tasks and problems into manageable components.
• Solicit guidance as needed to assess importance and urgency.
• Escalates issues of a non-routine nature as required.
• Provide expertise on all Resilience departments policies and processes
• Expand working knowledge and its BU’s and products to include key processes and operational aspects that impact the successful execution of business functions
• Share information in relation to procedures and routine activities.
• Be commercially astute- have confidence to raise questions that heighten relevant BC awareness and demonstrate insight.
• Appling company values, Resilience Standard and BC Management Framework, make timely decisions and provide real time guidance.
• Seeks instructions or escalate matters that require senior input or involve questions of judgment.
• Seek information on both formal and informal processes.
• Uses appropriate tools, techniques, and sources to gather, update, and monitor information.
• Checks for accuracy of interpretation.
• Seeks out the appropriate people for guidance when needed depending on the type of issue.
• Perform all tasks according to quality and output standards.
• Takes initiative to ensure that outcomes meet internal and external customer requirements.
• Solicits feedback on performance in new tasks.
• Measures accuracy using performance metrics.
• Sets improvement standards to reduce errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Coordinates routine updates to the information supporting the Business Continuity Procedures (e.g., contact lists, personnel assignments, vital records management, inventory lists, off-site backup schedules, etc. ). +
• Coordinates electronic access to, and hard copy distribution of, the Business Continuity Plans and Procedures.
• Administers contracts and service agreements with Business Continuity service providers.
• Assists in developing the training and awareness plan and material and all the administrative aspects of executing the plans
• Assists in developing the testing and exercising procedures and plan as well as all logistical and administrative activities to facilitate execution of the plan

Requirements

Your Qualifications
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Corporate Business continuity planning;
• Knowledge of ISO22301
• Ability to understand and document workflows and business processes;
• Must have the ability to plan work assignments, prioritize tasks and deliver deadlines accurately;
• Should demonstrate the ability to identify and respond to risk areas;
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must have high standards of integrity and ethical practice;
• Autonomous and proactive;
• Having a background in IT and business continuity/risk management is an advantage
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Halian Group
With over 20 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.
Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.

About the Company

Founded in 1996, Halian is an IT services company with a strong track record of delivering value for our customers across the UK, Europe, The Middle East and Africa.

The experience we have gained means that we can help our clients reduce information technology costs, increase IT systems performance, and free up valuable internal resource to focus on core business activities. Our knowledge base covers a variety of industry sectors including Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals, as well as a specialist Financial markets capability in our Luxembourg office.

We operate with a culture of openness and trust that helps us to develop strong working relationships with our clients and with our core technology partners Dell, Oracle, Red Hat and Symantec.

Our three key service offerings of Managed Services, Resourcing Services and Professional Services can be used independently or integrated to provide a truly comprehensive service.