Senior Business Continuity Specialist (Interim) – BCM4CITO

Rabobank is looking for a Senior Business Continuity Specialist (Interim) to develop high-quality Business Continuity Plans and risk-based exercises for complex IT domains, delivering practical recovery strategies and supporting documentation within short timelines.

Key responsibilities

• Create new, high-quality Business Continuity Plans for highly complex IT domains.
• Develop practical continuity solutions, including recovery strategies, workarounds, response priorities, dependencies, and roles & responsibilities.
• Prepare strategic choices for impactful recovery strategies with analysis and outline short- and long-term implementation actions.
• Work with operational teams to gather input, validate assumptions and understand practical constraints.
• Prepare and facilitate risk-based BCM exercises that go beyond basic walkthroughs or call tree tests.
• Update Business Impact Analyses and risk assessments and increase their maturity.
• Document exercise outcomes, lessons learned and improvement actions; support management reporting on BCM lifecycle progress.
• Share knowledge with the team and stakeholders to enable reuse of approach, choices and quality standards after the assignment.

Collaboration

Collaboration is central: you will work with a wide variety of teams for direct input and translate outcomes into clear, practical material for stakeholders and committees. You will operate with a high degree of independence while maintaining close stakeholder engagement.

Candidate profile

• Experience: At least 7 years in Business Continuity Management.
• Expertise: Proven, hands-on experience creating Business Continuity Plans and defining continuity strategies for complex environments and multiple scenarios, including third-party losses.
• Exercises: Experience preparing and facilitating BCM exercises that test more than basic procedures.
• Regulation: Ability to interpret requirements and regulation and translate them into practical implementation, or in-depth experience with DORA.
• Environment: Experience in an IT environment.
• Delivery: Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and deliver high-quality work within short timelines.
• Coaching & communication: Able to coach others practically, explain your BCM approach clearly and raise maturity while delivering concrete outputs.
• Language: Professionally fluent in English and able to produce clear, high-quality documentation.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in vital sectors such as financial services, oil & gas, telecom, or similarly regulated environments.
• Experience with Archer or comparable BCM, risk or control tooling.
• BCM-related certification such as MBCI/FBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, or equivalent.

Practical information

• Number of positions: 2
• Assignment duration: 12–15 months
• Contract type: Temporary contract / interim professional arrangement
• Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the office
• Language: English mandatory

Why this assignment matters

The BCPs and exercises in scope are critical deliverables that must help stakeholders understand realistic disruption scenarios, make continuity choices explicit, and test whether recovery arrangements are workable in practice. The workload is substantial and timelines are short, requiring structure, momentum and high-quality delivery.

If you have strong BCM experience and enjoy combining analysis, facilitation and high-quality delivery, we would like to hear from you.

Eisen

• Archer
• Business Continuity Management 7 jaar
• DORA