Business Continuity Specialist

Description:

Reporting to the Assurance and Risk Manager this role is responsible for the development, coordination and delivery of the Business Continuity Management System across SPR (onshore).

The post holder will be responsible and accountable for: -

• Developing, planning and delivering the Business Continuity strategy across offices, windfarms and other sites used by SPR, including the Renewables Control Centre (RCC)

• Providing governance around the local BCMS arrangements throughout SPR

• Assessing, managing and escalating risk, with a view to determining and documenting relevant mitigation and management measures

• Responding, managing and recovering business critical activities following a BC incident (i.e. fire, protests, national emergency etc) in conjunction with other relevant teams across SPR/ScottishPower

• Representing ScottishPower at Government and Industry resilience groups

• Supporting wider activities of the Assurance & Risk team as required, including tasks relating to quality management and document control.

What you’ll be doing

You will support the maintenance of Business Continuity Management systems with an objective to achieve ISO 22301 accreditation and develop, maintain, and continually improve the business continuity management system across ScottishPower Renewables.

We will look to you to ensure all required BCMS activities are completed within the timescales of the annual operating plan and provide expert advice relating to all business continuity risk and compliance matters across ScottishPower Renewables. Externally, this will include supporting the procurements process for large contracts or responding to continuity related questions when ScottishPower tender for contracts.

In addition to this, you will report, monitor and maintain critical KPI measures to ensure our performance targets are delivered and contribute to the development, maintenance and delivery of all emergency planning, security needs and health & safety plans or initiative in line with the ScottishPower group.

What you’ll bring

To join, you must have a working knowledge of business continuity management and ISO 22301 with experience in risk management processes and policy formation. You will possess strong management skills with a proven ability to manage 3rd party suppliers, vendors, and agents to agreed commercial & contracted service levels with a track record for delivery of excellent internal and external customer service.

We are looking for a leader who can motivate and inspire teams to deliver goals and objectives and use our leadership model and methods of working to help us deliver strategies that will achieve our financial, quality and regulatory targets.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave

• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes

• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments

• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.