Business Continuity Manager

🔎 We're Hiring: Business Continuity Manager

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

Alverix is a growing international organization focused on business operations, risk management, resilience, and operational excellence. Our teams collaborate across Business Continuity, Risk, IT, Security, Operations, HR, Compliance, and Management to strengthen organizational resilience and ensure critical business activities can continue during unexpected disruptions.

The Role

We are seeking a proactive and analytical Business Continuity Manager to lead business continuity planning, risk assessments, preparedness activities, and organizational resilience initiatives.

The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify critical business processes, develop continuity strategies, coordinate exercises, maintain response plans, and support effective recovery from operational disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve business continuity policies, plans, procedures, and frameworks.
• Coordinate business continuity management activities across departments.
• Conduct business impact assessments to identify critical processes, systems, resources, and dependencies.
• Support operational risk assessments and identify potential business disruption scenarios.
• Develop business continuity strategies and recovery plans for critical business functions.
• Coordinate business continuity exercises, simulations, tabletop exercises, and testing activities.
• Maintain business continuity documentation, contact lists, recovery procedures, and escalation plans.
• Work closely with IT, Security, Operations, HR, Facilities, Compliance, and Management teams.
• Support disaster recovery planning and coordinate with relevant technology teams.
• Monitor emerging risks and assess their potential impact on business operations.
• Support incident and crisis management activities when business continuity plans are activated.
• Track continuity-related actions, risks, findings, and remediation activities.
• Prepare business continuity reports, risk summaries, dashboards, and management updates.
• Review lessons learned from exercises, incidents, and business disruptions.
• Coordinate corrective actions and monitor the implementation of resilience improvements.
• Provide awareness sessions and guidance to employees on business continuity procedures.
• Maintain business continuity registers, process documentation, and recovery requirements.
• Support internal and external audits, assessments, and compliance reviews.
• Coordinate with external consultants, service providers, and business continuity partners when required.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen organizational resilience, recovery capabilities, and operational preparedness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Continuity, Risk Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Information Technology, Security, or a related field is preferred.
• Previous experience in business continuity, risk management, disaster recovery, crisis management, operations, or a related role.
• Experience developing continuity plans, business impact assessments, risk assessments, or recovery procedures is an advantage.
• Good understanding of business continuity, operational resilience, risk management, and disaster recovery principles.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to assess business risks and identify practical continuity solutions.
• Strong documentation and report-writing abilities.
• Familiarity with business continuity frameworks or standards such as ISO 22301 is an advantage.
• Good understanding of critical business processes, dependencies, recovery requirements, and escalation procedures.
• Strong stakeholder-management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and continuity initiatives.
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, presentations, risk registers, and business continuity tools.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working independently and collaborating with international teams.
• Good written and verbal English communication skills.
• UAE or GCC experience is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Candidates with relevant business continuity, risk, crisis management, disaster recovery, security, or operations experience are encouraged to apply.

What We Offer

• 🌍 Fully Remote Work Arrangement
• 💼 Full-Time Business Continuity Management Position
• 📈 Career Growth & Professional Development
• 🛡️ Hands-On Business Continuity & Risk Management Experience
• 🤝 International & Collaborative Working Environment
• 🎯 Opportunity to Develop Organizational Resilience Skills
• 🌐 Exposure to Regional & International Business Operations