Business Continuity Manager

Location: London / Portsmouth (Hybrid 1 day a week)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Are you an experienced Business Continuity professional looking to take ownership of an organisation‑wide resilience programme?

We're seeking a Business Continuity Manager to lead and evolve a mature Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), ensuring critical business services, technology platforms, and operational processes remain resilient in the face of disruption. This is a highly visible role working across technology, operations, risk, security, and executive leadership teams.

• Own and continuously improve the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) aligned to ISO 22301
• Lead Business Impact Assessments (BIAs), recovery planning, and resilience governance activities
• Define and review Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and critical dependencies
• Design and run continuity exercises, crisis simulations, tabletop tests, and disaster recovery scenarios
• Assess organisational resilience against cyber incidents, technology outages, data breaches, and operational disruptions
• Deliver executive reporting on continuity readiness, maturity, risks, and remediation activities
• Support regulatory compliance across ISO 22301, ISO 27001, GDPR, and broader risk frameworks
• Partner with technology, security, service delivery, and business stakeholders to embed resilience across the organisation
• Drive supplier and third‑party continuity assurance activities

• 5+ years' experience in Business Continuity, Resilience, Disaster Recovery, Risk, or Operational Resilience
• Strong knowledge of ISO 22301 and Business Continuity best practices
• Proven experience leading Business Impact Assessments and continuity testing programmes
• Experience running crisis management exercises, incident simulations, and recovery planning activities
• Understanding of cyber resilience, operational risk, and technology recovery strategies
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at senior leadership level
• Experience with in a technology‑led, professional services, regulated, or complex operational environment

• ISO
  22301 is absolutely essential, need training with it, lead implementor or lead auditor. You need to know ISO
  22301 inside out.
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is essential.

• Lead a business‑critical resilience programme
• Work closely with senior leadership and decision‑makers
• Flexible hybrid working
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package including pension, healthcare, life assurance, wellbeing support, and additional holiday options

If you're passionate about resilience, crisis preparedness, operational continuity, and helping organisations navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape, we'd love to hear from you.