Location: UK, Bradford
Company: Liberty Blume
As the organization’s business continuity manager, you’ll play a key role in strengthening Liberty Blume’s resilience and ensuring the organization is ready to respond when disruption occurs. Sitting within the organization’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance function, you’ll lead the development and continuous improvement of Liberty Blume’s business continuity and operational resilience framework, covering everything from impact analysis and continuity planning to testing and improvement.
You’ll work across critical services, technology, suppliers, facilities, and support functions, embedding ISO 22301-aligned best practice, identifying and mitigating continuity risks, and providing practical advice and assurance to senior stakeholders.
Job role:
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of Liberty Blume’s business continuity management system (BCMS), framework, policies, and standards, aligned to ISO 22301 and operational resilience best practice.
- Embed business continuity into the organization’s wider ISO management system, working alongside frameworks including ISO 45001 for health and safety and ISO 27001 for information security.
- Lead business impact analyses (BIAs) across the organization, identifying critical activities, dependencies, minimum service levels, recovery objectives, and priorities.
- Develop and maintain practical business continuity and recovery plans covering critical services, technology, locations, people, and third-party suppliers.
- Design and lead testing and exercising programmes, including tabletop exercises and scenario simulations, turning lessons learned into clear improvement actions.
- Work closely with teams across incident management, cyber response, disaster recovery, crisis communications, supplier assurance, and enterprise risk to ensure a joined-up approach to resilience.
- Monitor and manage business continuity risks, issues, actions, and key risk indicators, ensuring these are appropriately reflected within risk registers.
- Assess supplier and technology resilience, ensuring third-party recovery capabilities and disaster recovery commitments support the organization’s operational needs.
- Build resilience awareness across the business through engaging training, guidance, and support, helping teams understand their responsibilities and confidently apply continuity plans when needed.
- Keep the organization’s approach current by monitoring changes across business operations, emerging risks, client requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practice.