Location: US, IL, Chicago (hybrid)
Company: CommonSpirit
CommonSpirit is seeking a dynamic, highly experienced business continuity and resilience manager with healthcare expertise to join the organization’s enterprise resilience team and play a key leadership role in advancing its enterprise-wide business continuity program.
This high-impact position is essential to strengthening the organization’s ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions, ensuring the continuity of critical healthcare services, protecting patient safety, and sustaining essential operations across the ministry.
You will lead the implementation of the organization’s enterprise-wide business and operational continuity strategy by establishing strong program governance, driving disciplined program management, and ensuring consistent, high-quality program delivery across the organization.
This role requires a skilled program manager who can collaborate across clinical, operational, and technology teams, simplify complex challenges, strengthen business continuity and recovery capabilities, and deliver measurable results in a fast-paced healthcare environment. Through effective business continuity planning, risk assessment, advisory services, training, and exercises, you will help build a scalable, enterprise-wide business continuity program that strengthens organizational readiness, minimizes operational disruptions, and ensures the continuity of critical healthcare services and patient care when it matters most.
Job role:
- Enterprise business continuity program management: lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise-wide business continuity programs, including business impact analyses, risk assessments, continuity planning, advisory services, training, and exercises.
- Strategic alignment and performance: advance enterprise resilience’s strategic priorities by establishing clear objectives, coordinating business continuity program implementation, measuring performance, and driving continuous improvement to ensure alignment with organizational goals, patient safety, quality of care, and regulatory requirements.
- Communications and stakeholder management: develop and implement a comprehensive communication strategy to keep key stakeholders informed about enterprise business continuity initiatives, progress, and impact.
- Executive reporting: develop high-quality reports, presentations, and executive briefings for senior leadership, clearly communicating enterprise business continuity and resilience strategies, program performance, key risks, and opportunities for improvement.