IT Continuity & Disaster Recovery Specialist

This is a senior / expert-level contract assignment to establish and operationalise an enterprise-scale IT Continuity & Disaster Recovery capability within a large international organisation in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry.

• Extensive hands-on experience in establishing and operating IT Continuity & Disaster Recovery frameworks in large, complex IT environments.
• Proven experience building continuity and DR frameworks from the ground up.
• Strong practical knowledge of IT resilience, continuity and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Business Impact Assessment methodologies.
• Strong understanding of RTO / RPO definition, validation and governance.
• Experience designing and managing DR testing and exercising models.
• Strong understanding of relevant standards and control frameworks, including ISO 22301, ISO 27001, NIST and NIS2.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy, ownership and accountability.
• Ability to lead through expertise and influence.
• Fluent English, both spoken and written.

Nice to have:

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer / Lead Auditor or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer / Lead Auditor.
• Experience working in highly regulated or international enterprise environments.
• Experience covering both IT and OT environments.

• Designing and establishing the end-to-end IT Continuity & Disaster Recovery framework.
• Defining and authoring policies, standards, guiding principles and governance models.
• Creating templates and artefacts, including continuity plans, recovery strategies, playbooks and test reports.
• Building a clear, repeatable methodology for implementation, testing and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring alignment with recognised industry best practices, including ISO 22301 and ISO 27001.
• Leading Business Impact Assessments across IT/OT and critical business services.
• Defining and governing RTO and RPO tiering models.
• Designing system and service recovery strategies, including dependency mapping.
• Ensuring recovery strategies are realistic, achievable and aligned with business priorities.
• Embedding continuity and recovery considerations into architecture, solution design, delivery, change management and supplier governance.
• Establishing a structured DR testing and exercising programme.
• Defining success criteria, metrics, reporting and maturity assessment mechanisms.
• Engaging with senior IT, security and business stakeholders.
• Driving implementation across applications, platforms, IT/OT infrastructure and key third-party services.
• Ensuring alignment with relevant regulatory and compliance requirements, including NIS2 and GDPR where applicable.