Manager, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Hybrid

What you’ll need to succeed as a Manager, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery at XPO

At a minimum, you’ll need:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• 5 years of experience with IT Principals, Functions and BCDR requirements
• 5 years planning and executing of IT Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity exercises
• Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement
• Experience working with enterprise tools like (Salesforce or Fusion Risk Management)
• Facilitation of large groups to meet program objectives

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in an information technology, computer science, or engineering related field
• Experience in assisting in planning events, systems and/or people
• Experience working within an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework/IT Service Management Framework
• Experience developing and delivering metrics and reporting
• Experience working with third party IT vendors and/or software/hardware suppliers
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) as issued by the Disaster Recovery Institute International or Certified Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) as issued by the Business Continuity Institute
• Ability to work additional hours, which may include mornings, evenings and weekends if needed; ability to travel 10% of the time

 

About the Manager, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery job

Pay, benefits and more:

• Competitive compensation package
• Full health insurance benefits available on day one
• Life and disability insurance
• Earn up to 15 days of PTO over your first year
• 9 paid company holidays
• 401(k) option with company match
• Education assistance

 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Be responsible for maintaining, implementing and continually improving the BCDR processes and tools.
• Work with the Business and IT partners to maintain the program for the enterprise that ensures the critical processes will always be readily available to meet the needs of customers and employees.
• Create, implement and administrate the necessary program, policies, procedures, and standards for the Business Continuity Program
• Create, update, and maintain the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process for the enterprise
• Evaluate BIA results for appropriateness, collect resource requirements and align with resource recovery planning
• Create, update, and maintain Business Recovery Plans
• Lead Business Continuity Planning efforts to identify & address business risks & resource gaps
• Govern Vendor, Subsidiary and Independent BC programs directly affiliated with XPO to ensure alignment with XPO enterprise BCP policies and procedures 
• Plan, perform and post review Business Continuity plan exercises with critical Business units
• Collaborate with Information Technology (IT) to ensure IT’s Technology Disaster Recovery plans support the company’s recovery requirements as defined by BIA
• Coordinate Businesses involvement in IT DR exercises
• Work with IT Teams to ensure critical applications recovery, testing readiness, remediate recovery gaps