Business Continuity Manager

Business Continuity Manager

Department: Engineering and Sustainability

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: HQ London

Compensation: £67,210 / year

Purpose of the Job

The role is to manage business continuity which includes business resilience & contingency within c2c. The role is designed to help improve the operational resilience of c2c, ensuring we can minimise disruption, maintain operability and help prevent disaster. This is a cross-functional role, covering all operations/functions of the business. The role will be expected to help implement and maintain ISO 22301 and contribute to Business Continuity strategy and horizon scanning.

Key Accountabilities

• Developing the strategy for business continuity, business resilience & contingency, ensuring ISO
  22301 compliance.
• Create, implement, and periodically review a Business Continuity Management System and associated documentation, inclusive of a Business Continuity Plan, Business Impact Analysis, and Business Continuity Strategies.
• Advise on the approach to Business Continuity, Organisational Resilience and Incident Response.
• Design, plan and deliver Business Continuity exercises – both Desktop and Simulation.
• Create Business Continuity strategies for identified risks, ensuring they are safety validated, cost effective and risk assessed to ensure the approach is fit for purpose.
• Design and implement a periodic horizon scanning risk approach and keep up to date with external risk benchmarks and new trends in risk management.
• Manage a programme of Business Continuity assurance and continuous improvement review.
• Manage the investigation of Business Continuity incidents to enable lessons learnt to be identified.
• Collaborate with all functions within c2c, Trenitalia, Network Rail, DfT, BTP, and ORR.
• Establish an accountability driven implementation plan to deliver the strategy against, and benchmark progress to ensure the ability to respond to present and emerging risks.
• Engage with all directorates to ensure alignment of business-critical dependencies and ensure availability of resource when necessary.
• Maintain oversight of c2c’s emergency planning and incident response provisions and facilitate the alignment of training and delivery requirements in line with the wider industry structure.
• Delivery of contingency arrangement plans and assurance that plans factor in necessary training and competence management requirements where applicable.

Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications Required

• The post holder must hold the appropriate professional membership of the Business Continuity Institute.
• Hold or be working towards a Business Continuity diploma.
• Hold or be working towards a NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent).
• Good standard of general education.
• Attention to detail.
• Well organised and ability to prioritise workloads.
• Understanding of ISO certificated systems.