Business Continuity Third-Party Specialist
Control Risks, United States

Control Risks is searching for a Business Continuity Third-Party Resilience Specialist to support a Fortune 500 client. The Business Continuity Third-Party Resilience Specialist will be responsible for the implementation of business continuity principles and vendor oversight across the Client’s manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain vendors to anticipate and mitigate the effects of various business interruptions. The role will work across teams and geographies to influence key stakeholders and build resilience practices into the Client’s supply chain for manufactured goods.

Role tasks and responsibilities:

• Support Business Continuity Planning efforts.
• Partner with cross-functional partners for regional outsourced vendor security business continuity audits.
• Assist BC Corporate Leads and Business units with business continuity plan (BCP) development by directly working with regional business unit POCs.
• Assist in the development and conduct of business continuity training and exercises.
• Raise awareness of the Client’s business continuity Audit standards to key third parties through development and deployment of bi-annual regional roadshows and/or train-the-trainer summits.
• Steward and present periodic BC risk maturity reports to leadership.
• Assist in preparing the organization to meet external certification requirements related to BCP (e.g. ISO 22301, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.).

Requirements

• Relevant business continuity experience.
• Industry certifications such as ABCP, CBCP, MBCP, ISO22301.
• Familiarity with auditing Contact Center operations.
• Ability to work well in a complex, collaborative, and cross-functional global organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, critical thinking skills, effective interpersonal skills, strong formal presentation abilities, and strong project management experience.
• Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with strong business acumen and technical ability.
• Ability to be flexible and work effectively with ambiguity and change.

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.

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