Director, Business Continuity

Job Summary

The Director of Business Continuity (BC) will lead Cardinal Health’s enterprise-wide business continuity efforts working collaboratively across the organization to define business continuity and document business impacts and recovery strategies. The focus of the Director will be both strategic, designing required programs and practices, as well as tactical, working on the ground implementation. The Director will be responsible to drive and deliver Business Continuity commitment, support, ownership, accountability and results. The Director will also provide assistance to Security, Enterprise Risk Management, Environmental Health & Safety and other duties as assigned by the Vice President of Global Risk Management.

What Risk Management contributes to Cardinal Health

Finance oversees the accounting, tax, financial plans and policies of the organization, establishes and maintains fiscal controls, prepares and interprets financial reports, oversees financial systems and safeguards the organization's assets.

Risk Management identifies property, casualty and executive risks, recommends risk transfer solutions and administers risk transfer programs. This family mitigates retained risk via loss prevention and loss control programs. This family also analyzes strategic, operational, economic, regulatory and compliance risks and facilitates mitigation strategies (e.g., business continuity) to address those risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a coordinated business continuity program in alignment with continuity best practices. Establish a framework and methodology for completion of continuity plans and continuous cycle of update, validation, and corrective action. Remain well-informed of and implement best practices and industry wide standards wherever practical to support and improve the program.

• Identify key components that serve as the basis for continuity plans and programs. Implement standard Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, and other Business Continuity tools and capabilities. Collaborate with Information Technology to ensure consensus on critical functions and how they will be supported during a disruption.

• Drive and deliver effective Business Continuity strategies to support and, in time of disaster, recover Cardinal Health’s critical business functions.

• Coordinate with and support the Business Resiliency Organization with preparation for crises and support crisis response efforts.

• Create, assist, maintain, monitor, and validate Business Continuity Plans within the business continuity tracking tool; coordinate with units/oversee writing of Business Continuity Plans across Cardinal Health.

• Develop programs and procedures regarding business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency protocol for all areas of the organization and educate employees on Business Continuity and Emergency Management.

• Establish a coordinated program for training, communication, testing and exercising of plans, using a building block approach to build employee knowledge and confidence. Direct the continuous and regular validation and testing of documented Business Continuity plans; create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.

• In collaboration with Global Security and Communications, develop effective and efficient procedures for emergency communication.

• Conduct significant internal and external coordination with key partners, across business units, and with key external partners ensuring plans are updated and available to management teams in the event of a disruption.

• Attend professional meetings and participate in training or other educational offerings to update professional knowledge regarding new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience preferred

• Ability to work with senior management seeking buy-in for changes in procedures and recommend spending necessary for continuity in the event of interruption.

• Extensive knowledge of business continuity planning, information technology, business interruption and business operations best practices, principles, and strategies.

• Extensive know-how in developing and maintaining business continuity plans, conducting business impact analyses, and organizing and overseeing business continuity exercises.

• Proven Project Management capabilities.

• Demonstrated facilitation and collaboration skills.

• Ability to communicate and interface with diverse groups (both internal and external); strong interpersonal and commu