Senior Manager, Business Continuity Planning

Description

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee the conduct of exercises aimed at validating emergency and business continuity plans.
• Lead and monitor emergency response and business continuity plans across CAG’s operational domains.
• Manage and mentor a team to achieve the team’s objectives and ensure alignment with CAG’s Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) framework and strategic objectives.
• Champion a crisis-ready mindset, fostering a culture of resilience and preparedness throughout the organization.
• Develop and maintain a structured framework to train and familiarize staff with emergency response and business continuity plans.
• Ensure competency development through structured training, rotation, and external engagement for team members.
• Provide strategic direction and operational oversight to the BCP team.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that business continuity strategies are embedded across departments.
• Represent CAG at emergency exercises, ensuring CAG’s interests and protocols are well-articulated.
• Work closely with airport stakeholders and government agencies to collaborate in times of crisis and disruptions.
• Oversee and maintain crisis management facilities, ensuring readiness and operational integrity.
• Collaborate with airport stakeholders to identify risk areas, propose mitigations to minimise any disruption to critical airport operations.
• Lead performance evaluations, after-action reviews, and improvement planning for the BCMS programme.
• Lead evaluations of the airport’s critical systems, to adopt a resilience by design mindset.

Requirements

• Proven leadership skills with experience in managing and developing cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree, with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in crisis management and/or business continuity planning within a large organisation.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively manage relationships with key stakeholders, including regulators and government agencies.
• Proven leadership capabilities in managing cross-functional teams and driving enterprise-wide resilience initiatives.
• Extensive knowledge or working experience in business continuity, crisis management, and emergency planning.
• Experience in team leadership and people management is essential.
• Extensive knowledge or working experience in business continuity, crisis management, and emergency planning within a large organization.
• Self-motivated and independent, with a demonstrated ability to multi-task and perform in high-pressure environments.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance