Director, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
IQVIA · Durham, North Carolina, US
The Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery provides enterprise leadership for organizational resilience, ensuring the company can anticipate,...
Job description
The Director of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery provides enterprise leadership for organizational resilience, ensuring the company can anticipate, withstand, and recover from disruptive events. This role is critical to protecting people, operations, and customer commitments, and requires strong stakeholder management across business units, IT, facilities, legal, HR, risk, and executive leadership to drive alignment, sponsorship, and timely decision-making. The Director will be expected to evolve the current set of Business Continuity processes, procedures and practices into a scalable program framework, including a clear policy, standards, roles and responsibilities, lifecycle management, and reporting. The role drives consistent processes for business impact analysis, risk assessment, continuity strategy selection, plan development, training, and exercising—while enabling business ownership and accountability. Success requires demonstrated experience operating in large, complex, and federated environments, partnering across diverse functions and geographies to implement common requirements without disrupting business agility. The Director will also lead the development a...