Hybrid Business Continuity Manager

at CESCO

• Job title: Business Continuity Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Des Moines, United States

About the role

• Business Continuity Manager responsible for establishing and managing continuity processes and policies across the company. Collaborating with partners to ensure resilience and effective responses to disruptions.

Responsibilities

• 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