Manager Business Continuity Planning

Job Description

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

- Global Business Services (GBS) has been created to provide globally unified services based on standardized and automated solutions across different functions and markets.
- This will enable us to drive operational efficiency, quality services, improved agility, and better decision-making whilst reducing complexity and workload.
- In adidas GBS we leverage state-of-the-art technology and cultivate a human-centric and innovative mindset to continually raise the bar of the user experience.
- The Business Continuity Planning (BCP) senior manager's key responsibility is driving the execution of the BCP strategy.
- The responsibility includes developing, deploying, and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) strategies & solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, and strategy selection.
- The role requires creating/validating BCP-DR procedures, alongside planning, and conducting regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies.
- Facilitate debriefing sessions, and update procedures and plans based on lessons learned.
- Be the champion for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
- Additional responsibilities include risk, controls, and compliance management, supporting BCP-DR audit and examination activities.
- Support development & maintenance of policies, standards & procedures that are aligned with the industry best practices (NIST, FFIEC BCP handbook).

Key Responsibilities

- Setting a clear direction for BCP with the right balance between global-local needs and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities with the participating teams.
- Continuously assess the BCP community performance and develop necessary skills by coaching individual members.
- Lead the BIA, ensure that plans and strategies are appropriate, cohesive, and viable, and could be used to recover key functions within required time frames.
- Design, coordinate, and execute BCP-DR annual test exercises for critical business processes, and produce test reports including lessons learned.
- Coordinate follow-up on lessons as required.
- Develop recovery priorities, timelines, and strategies for the sequence of recovery components.
- Support review and maintenance of business continuity policy, standards, and processes.
- Support reporting and tracking of business continuity-related issues and remediation activities.
- Support the identification of Business Continuity related risks (internal/external), the assessment of their likelihood, as well as potential impacts and risk mitigation plans.
- Train BCP POC in the implementation of BC-DR processes, and standards and impart training to ensure recoverability of business processes and supporting services.
- Proactively identify and implement BCP program and process improvements.
- Provide ongoing SME guidance and assistance on business continuity matters.
- Guide management in self-assessing their control environment.
- Assist Crisis Management / Incident Management teams during service disruption events, and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

Key Relationships

- Operations Center Leads
- Functional GBS Operations teams
- Global process owner
- GBS Delivery Excellence Global team

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with an overall experience of 15 years.
- Hands-on experience in the area of process improvement, standardization, and Automation.
- Comprehensive understanding of E2E processes in Global Business Services.
- Ability to synthesize complex situations and develop solutions within a changing environment.
- Experience in providing clear guidance and instructions to operational teams and coaching.
- Complete familiarity with Microsoft Office or equivalent tools.
- Strong data analysis and RCA capability.
- Virtual team management skill.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

- University degree or equivalent experience, preferably in business administration.
- Relevant Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk, or Audit certifications are preferred.(One or more certifications MBCP, CBCP, ABCP, CRISC, CISA).
- adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace.
- We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.
- We are an equal opportunity employer.

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