Senior Associate Business Continuation Planning

Company Description
Resources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world's third-largest communications group. Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Re:Sources has grown to 5,000+ people servicing a global network of prestigious advertising, public relations, media, healthcare, and digital marketing agencies. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury, and risk management to help Publicis Groupe agencies do their best: create and innovate for their clients.

In addition to providing essential, everyday services to our agencies, Re:Sources develops and implements platforms, applications, and tools to enhance productivity, encourage collaboration, and enable professional and personal development. We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. With our support, Publicis Groupe agencies continue to create and deliver award-winning campaigns for their clients.

Overview
JOB SUMMARY:
The Senior Associate BCP must demonstrate hands on experience in managing business continuity program that addresses disaster recovery, business continuity and emergency response management.

The Responsibilities/deliverables Associated With The Position Are As Follows

• Help project and support teams to document their BCP plan, DR plan & emergency response plan.
• Perform BC/DR risk assessments to identify SPOFs and potential threats to business.
• Perform Business Impact Analysis to identify critical Business Processes, Applications, Maximum Acceptable Outage, Recovery Time Objective, and Recovery Point Objective etc.
• Develop Business Continuity Recovery Plans to address failure scenarios and recovery strategies.
• Works closely with technology teams to understand and develop the appropriate disaster recovery strategies across IT infrastructure, critical business applications and additional technology service.
• Execute recovery and restoration of critical applications using relevant tools.
• Develop, produce and update BCP/DR materials and documentation (e.g., recovery plans, call trees, test results, etc.)
• Execute Simulation tests, tabletop exercises and DR/technology recovery tests.
• To monitor and report compliance to BCM processes.
• Assist during client audits and visits.
• Ensure quality deliverables and client satisfaction.
• Serves as a point of contact for project and support teams for BCP/DR.
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement both locally and globally.
• Cultivates relationships across internal teams and works towards building professional networks.
• Builds a positive, transparent, collaborative working environment for the team.
• Time management to ensure project or non-project related deliverables are completed in a timely fashion.

Competencies

• Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery, Server Operations, Virtualization, Backup & Restore, Emergency Response, Crisis Communication, Project Management, People Management, Communications and Teamwork.
• Must have ISO 22301 implementation or auditing experience.
• Demonstrable abilities to liaise with various business units, internal teams, and external teams to understand business requirements, goals and provide reasonable business continuity, disaster recovery mitigations to reduce risk.
• Strong oral communications and writing skills are a must.
• Experience in managing projects independently.
• Must be a self-starter with strong organizational skills to enable navigation of the company to identify sponsors, stakeholders and interested parties.
• Ability to identify security risk management opportunities with clients and propose solutions that meet the clients' needs.
• A 'can do' attitude team player who works well under pressure and with dispersed groups, worldwide.

Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Bachelors or Master's degree in IT, science, math, engineering, computers, security or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in managing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
• Technical certifications such as CBCP, DRM is a plus.
• Working knowledge of any off the shelf BCP/DR product will be an advantage.
• Solid understanding of business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency response methodologies and framework.
• Use of computer, speaking on telephone, writing, occasional lifting of files or light boxes
• Some business travel, primarily in the geography the role is based out of
• May be required to work late hours sometime for coordination with other geographies. Not required regularly, only on a need basis.