Senior BCM Specialist

Role overview

Framework, planning and continuity

• Review organizational structure, critical services, existing emergency and continuity arrangements, policies, and risk information; identify applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and stakeholder requirements.
• Develop and maintain the BCM framework, governance, roles, scope, lifecycle, reporting, continual improvement arrangements, policy, objectives, responsibilities, and review requirements.
• Plan and facilitate BCM workshops and interviews with business units, process owners, support functions, and stakeholders.
• Lead BIA to identify critical activities, dependencies, impacts, recovery priorities, and recovery objectives; assess disruption scenarios, vulnerabilities, controls, and treatment actions.
• Develop continuity strategies covering recovery options, resources, dependencies, and recommendations; develop, review, and validate BCPs covering activation, escalation, communications, response, recovery, and return to normal.
• Develop BCM templates, tools, and documentation; present deliverables to management and incorporate stakeholder feedback.

Exercises, reporting and capability

• Develop an annual or periodic exercise and simulation programme based on organizational risks, critical activities, and BCPs; design and facilitate tabletop exercises and simulations.
• Prepare exercise reports covering observations, strengths, gaps, lessons learned, and corrective actions, and monitoring reports covering progress, BCP status, exercise results, and improvement priorities.
• Track corrective actions and support business owners updating BCPs and related documentation; maintain document control, version management, and records of BCM activities and decisions.
• Provide knowledge transfer and coaching to designated client personnel.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Continuity, Risk Management, Emergency Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant BCM experience, including developing and implementing frameworks, policies, and continuity plans.
• Hands-on experience with BIA, continuity risk assessments and strategy, BCPs, exercises and simulations, and awareness and stakeholder workshops.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports and presenting recommendations to senior management; experience in complex, multi-department organizations.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 22301:2019, ISO 22313, and the 2024 ISO 22301 amendment.
• Saudi Arabia or GCC experience is highly preferred. CBCI, MBCI, or equivalent BCM certification is preferred; ISO 22301 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification is an advantage.

Core competencies

• Excellent stakeholder management, interviewing, and workshop facilitation skills.
• Ability to translate business processes, critical activities, and dependencies into practical recovery requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication, report writing, and presentation skills; Arabic is an advantage.
• Strong planning, coordination, document-management, analytical, and problem-solving abilities; attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines.
• Ability to communicate BCM concepts effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key deliverables