Business Continuity & Resilience Manager

Business Continuity & Resilience Manager

Permanent | Leicestershire (Hybrid) | £45,000 – £65,000 DOE

The Organisation

A well-established, commercially significant organisation headquartered in Leicestershire with excellent motorway access. Despite a lean headcount, the business operates at a scale that belies its size, with significant reach across the UK. The culture is collaborative and purposeful, with real access to senior leadership for those who earn it.

The Opportunity

A newly created role with real scope to make a difference. As Business Continuity & Resilience Manager, you will play a lead role in strengthening the organisation’s IT security and operational resilience — working hands-on to design and improve frameworks, run exercises, coordinate assurance and support incident response. This is a delivery role, not a figurehead; the expectation is that you will personally write the plans, lead the exercises and carry out the assurance work.

You will report into the senior IT leadership team and have visibility at Board level through management reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Business Continuity & Resilience

• Own and continually improve the Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework
• Design and run disaster recovery simulations and resilience exercises
• Lead crisis management planning and incident response
• Coordinate resilience assurance across third-party suppliers
• Ensure IT risks are appropriately mitigated with sufficient monitoring in place

Technology resilience

• Define and maintain technology resilience standards, including DR, backup and RTO/RPO frameworks
• Provide independent assurance that critical systems are protected and recovery plans are tested
• Support access controls, credentials management and authentication reviews for critical platforms

Third party risk

• Build and manage a supplier and partner risk framework
• Ensure due diligence and ongoing monitoring is in place for suppliers supporting critical services

What we need

Essential

• Practical, hands-on experience in business continuity and operational resilience
• Good grounding in IT and technology risk
• Proven experience managing supplier and third-party risk
• Comfortable reporting to senior management and Board level

Desirable

• Professional certifications or working towards them — ISO 22301, CISM or ICA
• Familiarity with operational and technology resilience frameworks

Key Skills

• Sound judgement and the ability to cut through ambiguity
• Strong stakeholder communication — comfortable at both Board and operational level
• Clear-headed under pressure; decisive when it matters
• Analytical approach to risk assessment and control design

If this sounds like the kind of role you have been looking for, we would like to hear from you.