Business Continuity Manager
CESCO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Des Moines • Illinois • Iowa • United States
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About the role
- Collaborate with business partners to establish, maintain, and mature a business continuity program
- Build, socialize, and enforce policies related to business continuity planning
- Collaborate with business partners to conduct and periodically review business impact analyses (BIA)
- Establish realistic risk thresholds and recovery objectives through BIA
- Assess the need for and implement vendor and cloud resilience programs as it pertains to business continuity
- Develop business continuity plans based on business impact analyses
- Plan and conduct business continuity plan tests with business partners
- Educate and advise business partners on continuity program processes and requirements
- Find opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption
- Partner with IT to catalog, test, and measure Disaster Recovery capabilities
- Manage the crisis response planning, management, and communication
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience preferred
- 7+ years of experience conducting Business Continuity Planning and Business Impact Analysis processes across organizational business lines
- Demonstrated experience managing complex projects as well as working with security professionals, information technology partners, and business associates
- Relevant experience operating within a fast-paced, complex organization that requires interacting with and influencing a wide range of business and technology partners
- CISSP, CBCP, and/or ABCP certifications preferred
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Detail-oriented with ability to work quickly and accurately under time constraints
- Excellent collaborator with the ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to multi-task and work optimally to meet frequent deadlines
- Willingness to focus and drive toward finding the best solution for the business partner
- Fluent people skills with a strong ability to empathize, convince, and influence
- Adept at process and project facilitation
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility beyond expected work schedule to assist in response to disruptions and scheduled tests
- Overnight travel required up to 3 times per month
Benefits
- Eligibility for health, and dental, vision coverage
- 401(k) plan and flexible spending accounts, subject to plan terms
- Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, short-term disability, long-term care, and Employee Assistance Program, subject to applicable waiting periods
- Excused Absence time off and Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Company-paid holidays
- Supplemental life insurance, hospital indemnity, and accident and critical illness benefits with cancer coverage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Business Continuity PlanningBusiness Impact AnalysisDisaster RecoveryRisk AssessmentCrisis Response PlanningProject ManagementVendor Resilience ProgramsCloud Resilience ProgramsPolicy EnforcementBusiness Continuity Plan Testing
Soft Skills
Interpersonal SkillsOrganizational SkillsCollaborationDetail-orientedMulti-taskingFlexibilityEmpathyInfluencingCommunicationStrategic Improvement
Certifications
CISSPCBCPABCP