Associate Director Business Resilience and Crisis Response

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The Enterprise Business Resilience Team (BR Team) is responsible for driving BMS’s operational resilience from a Business Continuity Management (BCM), Crisis Response, and proactive risk identification and mitigation perspective. 

This role will support the BCM Lifecycle, ensuring BR Team and stakeholder compliance with all BCM program requirements. Also, this role will support the BR Team and key stakeholders as needed to respond and recover from a crisis. In addition to supporting crisis response, this role will help prepare the organization for potential crises by supporting cross-functional, global BCM exercises including tabletops, simulations and lessons learned. Additionally, this role will aid in the development, programming, and continuous improvement of critical business resilience initiatives and tools, including those that drive our BCM planning and proactive risk management capabilities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive partnership with business owners and team members to ensure all BCM lifecycle requirements are met

• Serve as a member of a crisis management team during periods of activationDrive the development of fit-for-purpose real-world exercises at enterprise, regional, multi-site, and cross-functional levels

• Engage other key risk functions, including Enterprise Risk Management, Third Party Risk Management, Quality Risk Management, and Global Security Risk Intelligence on joint initiatives and to drive alignment and business outcomes

• Lead engagement with external partners to benchmark resilience programs and share best practices

• Actively engage users of Fusion Risk Management, the enterprise tool for managing BCM. This includes providing user support and plan consultation

• Support the administration of Fusion Risk Management, including documentation, developing reports, and implementing enhancements and advanced capabilities

• Support development of proactive risk management capabilities (Emerging and Predictive Risk), including developing and maintaining analytics and visualizations using Power BI and Python

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors’ Degree required –computer science, engineering or programming disciplines preferred

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Knowledge of Risk Management practices and risk related controls •Effective at collaborating across a matrixed environment

• 2+ years hands on coding experience with Python and Domino; data visualization experience Power BI

• 7+ years crisis management/crisis response experience

• 5+ years experience with Fusion Risk Management

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the biopharmaceutical operating model and requirements preferred

• Knowledge of business continuity management applications

• Fusion Framework System Certified Administrator

• BCM Certification (DRI, BCI, ISO)•Experience coding in Conga

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