2,139 Business Continuity Director jobs in the United States

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Corporate - Risk

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology and Operations (GTO) team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you'll unlock an exciting and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Director, Enterprise Business Continuity Management in the Chief Operations Office, team you will collaborate with GTO's various functional areas, individual business units/corporate functions, and other control functions to evolve our Business Continuity strategy toward Operational Resilience.

This team is responsible for maintaining a governance structure and associated policies and standards to enable enterprise-level oversight of business continuation risk. This team is also responsible for building out our Business Service framework that aligns to industry standard Operational Resilience concepts. The team ensures the organization is well-prepared to respond to, recover from and adapt to business disruptions-whether from technology failures, third-party risk, natural disasters, or other crisis- while safeguarding critical business services, protecting stakeholders, and maintaining regulatory compliance. In this role, you will assist in the development of resilience strategies, policies, and framework that reflect changes to the environment and business operations.

The ideal candidate will combine deep expertise in business continuity, disaster recovery, risk assessment with a forward-thinking mindset to embed resilience across all business units, technology, and corporate functions.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Lead the enterprise-wide business continuity program, ensuring business units have robust, actionable plans that protect critical operations and enable timely recovery during disruptions.
• Oversee the execution of business impact assessments, continuity planning/testing, and recovery strategy development across all business lines.
• Help lead the organization's shift toward an integrated Operational Resilience model, embedding resilience thinking across services, processes, and systems.
• Partner with the BC community to assess and refine recovery strategies based on changes in business operations, technology, and risk environment.
• Establish and manage governance structures to oversee business continuity and resilience program performance and continuous improvement.
• Oversee resilience testing, scenario analysis, and lessons-learned frameworks that complement business continuity planning.
• Collaborate with all business units, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Technology and Third-Party risk teams to ensure cross-functional integration and resilience.
• Champion a resilience-driven culture by providing training, awareness, and engagement programs across all levels of the organization.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, Operational Resilience, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, or Operational Resilience
• Proven experience building and leading mature enterprise business continuity programs
• Demonstrated ability to evolve continuity programs toward holistic operational resilience models
• Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Experience using Open Pages, Fusion Risk Management and ServiceNow
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
• Ability to rapidly find, assimilate and correlate information correctly.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills and solution oriented
• Demonstrated ability to influence with comfort and ability working between organizational structures to effect significant change, self-starter comfortable working independently and within a team environment
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to connect, build relationships and influence business leaders, across all levels
• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to benefit of the organization.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level .
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave .
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to 1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

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Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology and Operations (GTO) team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role

As a Director, Enterprise Business Continuity Management in the Chief Operations Office, team you will collaborate with GTOs various functional areas, individual business units/corporate functions, and other control functions to evolve our Business Continuity strategy toward Operational Resilience.

This team is responsible for maintaining a governance structure and associated policies and standards to enable enterprise-level oversight of business continuation risk. This team is also responsible for building out our Business Service framework that aligns to industry standard Operational Resilience concepts. The team ensures the organization is well-prepared to respond to, recover from and adapt to business disruptions-whether from technology failures, third-party risk, natural disasters, or other crisis- while safeguarding critical business services, protecting stakeholders, and maintaining regulatory compliance. In this role, you will assist in the development of resilience strategies, policies, and framework that reflect changes to the environment and business operations.

The ideal candidate will combine deep expertise in business continuity, disaster recovery, risk assessment with a forward-thinking mindset to embed resilience across all business units, technology, and corporate functions.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Lead the enterprise-wide business continuity program, ensuring business units have robust, actionable plans that protect critical operations and enable timely recovery during disruptions.

• Oversee the execution of business impact assessments, continuity planning/testing, and recovery strategy development across all business lines.

• Help lead the organizations shift toward an integrated Operational Resilience model, embedding resilience thinking across services, processes, and systems.

• Partner with the BC community to assess and refine recovery strategies based on changes in business operations, technology, and risk environment.

• Establish and manage governance structures to oversee business continuity and resilience program performance and continuous improvement.

• Oversee resilience testing, scenario analysis, and lessons-learned frameworks that complement business continuity planning.

• Collaborate with all business units, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Technology and Third-Party risk teams to ensure cross-functional integration and resilience.

• Champion a resilience-driven culture by providing training, awareness, and engagement programs across all levels of the organization.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelors degree in Business, Risk Management, Operational Resilience, or related field.

• 10+ years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, or Operational Resilience

• Proven experience building and leading mature enterprise business continuity programs

• Demonstrated ability to evolve continuity programs toward holistic operational resilience models

• Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization

• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.

• Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

• Experience using Open Pages, Fusion Risk Management and ServiceNow

• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.

• Ability to rapidly find, assimilate and correlate information correctly.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills and solution oriented

• Demonstrated ability to influence with comfort and ability working between organizational structures to effect significant change, self-starter comfortable working independently and within a team environment

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to connect, build relationships and influence business leaders, across all levels

• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to benefit of the organization.

Youll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level .

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave .

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

• Company-funded pension plan.

• Wellness Programs including up to 1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.

• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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About the job Disaster Recovery Specialist In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position will serve as an IT Resiliency SME on the management of business continuity assets and processes for IT, resiliency business systems planning, financial and contracts management, audit, compliance, methods, processes and quality assurance functions by leading risk, hazard, vulnerability and business impact assessments on IT people and technology disruptions; develop mitigation strategies, business continuity and crisis response plans; and lead testing, emergency response, and recovery. This position will also provide insight, expertise, and consultation on the selection of operating and recovery strategies for the continuation of IT people, processes, and services within defined recovery time objectives.Essential Responsibilities: * Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.Develops requirements, or leads a team of IT consultants in the development of requirements for complex or specialized process or system solutions which may span multiple business domains by partnering with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture).Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) across the enterprise.Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of complex solution proposals.Provides insight, guidance, and recommendations throughout the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining and leveraging a comprehensive understanding of how current processes impact business operations across the enterprise.Maps current state against future state processes.Defines the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.Provides insight and influence to senior management and business leaders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across the enterprise.Reviews, evaluates, and prioritizes value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.Influences solution design by providing insight and consultation at design sessions with IT teams to help translate requirements into workable business solutions.Recommends and advocates for additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.Participates in evaluating third-party vendors as directed.Drives continuous process improvement by leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across the enterprise.Recommends and advocates for regional and national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.Minimum Qualifications:Minimum Six (6) years experience in IT business recovery, crisis management, disaster recovery, or information security, including minimum four (4) years in business continuity.Education and/or Experience Related to IT ConsultingPreferred Qualifications:Three (3) years experience in the area of business, IT, organizational, or risk resiliency.Four (4) years experience working for an IT organization.Four (4) years in a leadership role working with project or technical teams.Three (3) years experience working on cross-functional project teams.Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)DRII Certified Business Continuity Professional certification.Must be authorized to work in the US. We cannot sponsor visas at this time. No resumes from staffing agencies or third parties will be accepted.