Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Manager

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At Regions, the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Manager is responsible for the hands-on management of the Business Resiliency program. This position requires a proven subject matter expert with demonstrated competency in the planning, development, program execution, maintenance and testing of Enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis/Incident Management programs. This position requires communication and coordination across the organization and must demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures that plans are properly rated for all business process areas, contains all required sections, and reflects current conditions
• Develops plans and strategies that are appropriate, cohesive, and viable, while recovering key functions within required time frames
• Provides training on the correct implementation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC & DR) processes, standards and impart training to ensure recoverability of business processes and supporting services across organizations
• Supports review and maintenance of business continuity policy, standards, and processes
• Coordinates internal reporting and tracking of business continuity related issues and remediation activities
• Supports assigned oversight areas with the creation, maintenance and testing of their various business continuity plans
• Identifies Business Continuity related risks (internal / external), the assessment of their likelihood, as well as potential impacts and risk mitigation plans
• Proactively identifies and implements BC & DR program and process improvements
• Provides ongoing subject matter expert (SME) guidance and assistance on business continuity matters
• Ensures that Technology Disaster Recovery applications have fully documented, tested, executable plans
• Designs, coordinates, and executes BC & DR annual test exercises for critical business processes and produce test reports including lessons learned
• Partners with infrastructure and application areas to develop and maintain recovery procedures for Tier 1 business applications
• Develops recovery priorities, timelines, and strategy for proper sequence of recovery components
• Educates technology partners in practices of technology risk disaster recovery planning
• Reviews existing and proposed plans for recoverability effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement
• Provides guidance to management in self-assessing their control environment
• Develops and reviews third party contracts for hardware and telecom services for Disaster Recovery hardware equipment and location resources
• Partners across Technology, Operations,…