Manager Business Continuity

Responsible to plan, develop, implement and manage the business continuity department. Manage all aspects of business continuity planning that have divisional and/or corporate impact and support; schedule and publish the review schedule for all business continuity plans; assist in plan development across all business areas; provide effective and efficient solutions to business problems.

- Develop and implement corporate business continuity processes and procedures.

- Coordination of enterprise business continuity plan creation, maintenance and testing.

- Provide training and education on business continuity planning software to maintain plans for all areas within Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

- Act as liaison between corporate business areas and participates in group or committee discussions.

- Prepare executive level presentations and conduct executive steering committee meetings.

- Identify and resolve challenges to fulfill key business continuity objectives and respond to the demand of change management across the organization.

- Initiate actions needed to plan, organize and control business continuity planning activities.

- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Computer Science or related field is required.

- Seven (7) years of experience in business continuity methodologies and techniques, risk assessments, crisis management, corporate contingency planning and business impact analysis is required.

- Four (4) years of previous leadership experience is required.

- Knowledge of HiTrust security requirements for compliance and audits.

- Ability to perform system administrator duties which support the enterprise business continuity software.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills required to build continued support for continuity objectives and tests.

- Ability to appropriately delegate work across the organization and perform appropriate follow up to ensure ongoing organizational resiliency.

- Ability to design and implement processes, creating templates and repeatable processes.