
Tadawul
Business Continuity Lead Specialist
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
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Job expiry date: 28/08/2025
Job overview
Date posted
14/07/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR Undisclosed per month
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
28/08/2025
Job description
Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of disaster recovery, crisis management, and business continuity plans for critical assets and business functions. Monitor compliance with government regulations, assess risks and impacts, and drive awareness, testing, and reporting to ensure organizational resilience and sound decision-making.
Required skills
Disaster recovery planning
Business impact analysis
Crisis management planning
Business continuity planning
Risk analysis
Regulatory compliance
Corporate intelligence monitoring
Report writing
IT infrastructure knowledge
Emergency management
Data analysis
Key responsibilities
- Handle the development of disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers in order to support the continuity program.
- Analyze impact on and risk to essential business functions or information systems in order to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Lead the development of emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Monitor and review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans for continuous improvement purposes.
- Interpret government regulations to ensure the Business Continuity setup are compliant with government regulations.
- Monitor and review corporate intelligence data in order to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to people safety, assets, information, or infrastructure.
- Assess and develop products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
- Prepare reports summarizing operational results and accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans to support management to make sound business decisions.
- Assess and develop business continuity (BC) Minimum requirements for members & DV and monitor compliance reports.
- Conduct business continuity awareness and testing of BC plans, disaster recovery, and crisis management.
- Carry out daily operations assigned for the department to comply with the companyâs standards.
- Prepare timely and accurate department reports to meet the requirements, objectives, and standards of the company and the department.
- Ensure the satisfaction of internal and external customers to address their needs in a courteous and timely manner.
- Follow all relevant policies, procedures, and processes in order for the work to be carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and practices, work processes, cost effectiveness, and productivity enhancement.
- Promote to other employees within the organization the implementation and adherence to policies, procedures, processes, and instructions.
- Maintain a good and respectful relationship with other colleagues and represent the company in a good image.
Experience & skills
- Bachelorâs degree in Computer Science, Information Security or equivalent
- Professional qualification in Certified Business Continuity Professional or equivalent preferred
- 3+ years of relevant business continuity experience at a large organization or consulting
- IT background
- Problem solving skills