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“This role is currently work-from-home and will move to the office environment after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.”

Job Description: The Disaster Recovery (DR) IT Planner works within a cross-functional team to govern risk, policy, and compliance for the Enterprise Services IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) program.

• Manage the Disaster Recovery Program – Member of the cross-functional ITSCM team responsible for managing a DR portfolio of over 100 critical business applications and infrastructure.
• Maintain five DR plans and hundreds of Technical Recovery Guides globally.
• Manage small and large scope walk-through and simulation-type disaster recovery exercises leading multi-discipline groups of employees, consultants and vendors to ensure resiliency against disasters and drive continuous improvement.
• Drive global standardization across US, UK and Asia Client ITSCM teams.
• Oversee service providers to maintain accountability and quality of deliverables.
• Network with Enterprise Services internal and external teams.
• Manage project implementations through collaboration with business partners and service delivery teams.
• Provide oversight of DR design projects
• Provide formal and regular communications and escalation to management and executive briefings as needed
• Identify issues, devise solutions and present to governance teams for resolution.
• Manage prioritization and demand management of existing capabilities
• Ensure the retirement of DR capabilities at end of service.
• Increase visibility of strategic IT capabilities and service offerings and advance the appreciation of continuity topics through speaking engagements, training sessions and walk-through exercises.
• Review contracts for externally hosted applications for DR risk management.
• Approve DR project spend for appropriate risk vs. cost.
• Develop and maintain operational policies and SOPs for the ITSCM program.
• Prepare and provide responses to audits.
• Counsel business units on contracts, statements of work and BC/DR plans for outsourced services and systems to ensure cohesiveness and contractual compliance.
• Provide technical consulting for complex disaster recovery solutions.
• Maintain the Enterprise Services section of the BCM SharePoint to ensure stakeholders are informed.
• Support Enterprise Services IT (ES IT) teams developing and maintaining Business Impact Assessments, Risk Assessments, Disaster Recovery Plans, Business Continuity Plans and other related plans.
• Responsible to ensure ES IT correctly interprets and complies with the Corporate Directive on Business Continuity.

Strong skills in building and maintaining successful networks and relationships with key leaders across a single functional area to ensure IT projects are supported and successfully delivered.
• Organizes and presents ideas in a convincing and compelling manner.
• Persuades and influences others with effective verbal and written communication.
• Understands the value of process-centric approach to business analysis and capability development.
• Command of project management techniques and tools.
• Develops or modifies moderately complex information systems documentation and conveys this information to technical team for translation into programming languages or implements into COTS technologies.
• Identifies process, technology and organizational role changes necessary to support business goals and objectives.
• Experience in leading business process re-engineering efforts for at least one medium-to-large software project.
• Min 3 years of project management experiences, i.e. understanding the business need, defining a creative and useful software solution, and promoting the product to the user community and management.
• Understanding of business strategy development techniques.

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