Role purpose

Owns end-to-end delivery of the BCM programme, from mobilization through business impact analysis, strategy definition, plan development, exercising and embedding into business-as-usual. Accountable for scope, schedule, quality, commercials and client relationship, and is the single point of ownership the client holds responsible for the engagement.

Key responsibilities

Delivery ownership

• Own the delivery plan, milestones, dependencies and critical path against the signed Statement of Work

• Run governance: weekly status reporting, steering committee updates, RAID log, change control

• Manage deliverable production, internal quality review and formal client acceptance

• Track commercials — budget, burn rate, milestone invoicing and revenue recognition

• Identify and manage scope creep; raise change requests before work is undertaken

BCM technical scope

• Define BCM scope, policy and governance structure aligned to ISO 22301 and applicable regulatory frameworks

• Direct the Business Impact Analysis: critical activities, dependencies, MTPD, RTO, RPO and MBCO

• Oversee threat and risk assessment and the resulting continuity strategy options

• Govern development of business continuity plans, crisis management structure, incident response protocols and communication trees

• Ensure IT disaster recovery capability is mapped against business recovery objectives and gaps are surfaced

• Design and run the exercise programme — walkthrough, tabletop, simulation and live failover — and drive remediation from findings

• Build the awareness, training and continual improvement cycle so the capability survives handover

Stakeholder and team management

• Serve as primary interface to the client sponsor, BCM function, risk, IT and business unit leads

• Secure client-side inputs, approvals and participation, and escalate dependency slippage early

• Lead and develop the delivery team; allocate work, review output, manage utilization

• Run knowledge transfer so the client can operate the capability independently

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