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What are we looking for?

The Assistant Manager, Business Continuity Management supports the implementation, maintenance, and execution of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Programme. The role focuses on coordination, documentation, monitoring, and reporting, ensuring departments comply with BCM requirements and are prepared to respond effectively to disruptions, under the guidance of the BCM Manager.

What are we expecting from this role?

• Coordinate with business units to collect, compile, and maintain BCM artefacts, including Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Business Continuity Plans (BCP), call trees, Tabletop Exercise, IT Disaster Recovery and related records.

• Provide security input for business travel by assessing destinations, routes, checkpoints, transport methods, local restrictions, recent incidents, and traveler-specific considerations. The role provides advice only and does not approve or prohibit travel.

• Monitor emerging threats, assess employee impacts, escalate material concerns, support HR and CMT response actions, and coordinate CMT activation and meeting.

• Provide operational and coordination support to the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Programme, ensuring BCM activities, documentation, and timelines are properly tracked and maintained.

• Guide departments on the use of BCM templates and required information and perform initial completeness and consistency checks before submission to the BCM Manager.

• Monitor BCM deliverables and review cycles, follow up on outstanding or overdue items, and escalate gaps, risks, or delays to the BCM Manager.

• Support the planning, coordination, and documentation of BCM tests, exercises, and awareness activities, including attendance tracking and post‑exercise records.

• Maintain accurate BCM documentation, trackers, and repositories to support regional office including audit, and due‑diligence requests, under the direction of the BCM Manager.

• Prepare status updates, summaries, and reports on BCM activities for management review.

• Support continuous improvement of BCM practices through administrative follow‑up, documentation updates, and action tracking.

Who are we looking for?

• Minimum 2 to 3 years of relevant experience in business continuity, operational resilience, crisis management, operational risk, or related control function, including practical responsibility for BIAs, continuity plans, and exercises.

• Experience working in a regulated or structured corporate environment is an advantage.

• Strong understanding of Myanmar’s local operating environment, including security, political, travel, infrastructure, regulatory, and business continuity conditions that may affect employees and operations.

• Familiarity with security advisory tools such as EXERA is a plus.

• Degree in Business Management, Information Technology, or a related degree.

• Experience with BCM or resilience certification is a plus

• Good coordination and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong documentation and organizational skills.

• Ability to work calmly under pressure during incidents.

• Attention to detail and strong follow‑up discipline.

• Business Continuity Management concepts

• Practical knowledge of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), call trees, and IT Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Basic understanding of BIA, RTO, and RPO

• BCM testing and exercise coordination

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.