Business Continuity Lead

Assurance, Testing and Continuous Improvement

● Validation: Design and execute testing, simulations, and tabletop exercises to validate continuity arrangements. ● Continuous Improvement: Coordinate post-incident reviews, capture lessons learned, and drive actionable improvements. ● Reporting: Monitor BCM maturity and performance metrics, providing regular assurance reports to senior management.

Awareness and Training

● Education: Develop and deliver BCM training and awareness programs to embed resilience across the project. ● Expert Guidance: Act as a subject matter expert, advising project leaders on embedding continuity into strategic decision-making.

Governance and Compliance

● Standards & Compliance: Ensure ongoing alignment with ISO 22301 and all relevant regulatory, legal, and contractual obligations. ● Audit Support: Manage and support internal/external audits, certifications, and governance reporting for BCM activities.

Minimum Skills & Competencies

● Proven expertise in business continuity management, operational resilience, and emergency planning. ● Strong stakeholder management, relationship-building, and cross-functional leadership skills. ● Exceptional written, verbal, and crisis communication capabilities. ● Demonstrated ability to influence, advise, and engage senior leadership. ● Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with high attention to detail. ● Strong program and project management capabilities, capable of balancing multiple priorities. ● Decisive, calm, and effective leadership under high-pressure scenarios.

Qualifications & Experience

Educational Requirements/Qualifications

● Professional certification in Business Continuity, Risk, Security, or Resilience (e.g., CBCI, MBCI, ISO 22301, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor).

Essential Experience

● Minimum of 5 years of experience in Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, Risk Management, Corporate Security, or a related discipline. ● Proven track record in developing, implementing, and embedding comprehensive Business Continuity Management frameworks and programmes. ● Demonstrated experience conducting Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and establishing key recovery objectives and strategies (RTOs/RPOs/MBCOs). ● Hands-on experience creating, maintaining, and testing robust Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) across business units. ● Strong background supporting or leading ISO 22301 alignment, audit readiness, certification, and ongoing compliance. ● Experience designing and facilitating continuity exercises, simulations, and crisis management testing programs.

Desirable

● Experience working within highly regulated, high-risk, or critical national infrastructure (CNI) environments. ● Experience supporting major capital projects, large-scale infrastructure programmes, or complex multi-site operations.

Personal Qualities

● The successful candidate should have and be able to commit to: ● The highest levels of integrity, respectfulness and professionalism ● Open, trusting and in the spirit of mutual support approach, especially when dealing with conflicts of interests ● An engaging and proactive ‘can do’ attitude where successes and failures are shared ● Do what we say we are going to do and only commit to what can be done ● Listen and communicate effectively ● Ability to work as an individual or as part of a team

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.