Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Manager

Join the Elite Team at Sopra Steria as a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Manager!

Sopra Steria is at the forefront of growth and innovation within the Aerospace, Defence, and National Security sectors. With an ever-increasing demand for enhanced support, we are growing our team to take on new challenges. Our mission is to craft, run, and transform critical services, meeting the evolving needs of our clients through innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Manager to own the development and execution of an end-to-end Service Continuity approach across our ADS sector.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the Charge on Resilience: Design and drive robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.
• Forge Strong Partnerships: Collaborate closely with customers and delivery teams across ADS.
• Deliver High-Impact Reporting: Keep partners fully advised on BCDR readiness.
• Power Pre-Sales Success: Bring your BC and IT DR expertise to our pre-sales activities, helping shape winning proposals.
• Drive Meticulous Testing: Set up and lead all aspects of testing regimes for BCDR plans, analyse the results, and continuously improve our resilience capabilities.
• Lead with Compliance and Confidence: Support internal and external audits, ensuring we meet standards and proactively address potential risks.
• Steer the Risk Management Process: Track, raise, and address BCDR risks with strategic foresight.

What you will bring:

• In-depth Experience in Sophisticated Environments, delivering critical services with a keen eye for resilience.
• A strong leader who guides, supports, and communicates effectively to cultivate business growth and resilience.
• Strong Communicator: You know how to make sophisticated information clear and impactful—whether in writing or speaking.

It would be great if you had:

• Prior work within Defence would be highly valuable.
• Professional Certification in Business Continuity: Recognition through membership or certification (e.g., MBCI, MICOR, BCS - Practitioner in Business Continuity Management) will set you apart.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.Location: Bristol.Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for SC Clearance.Internal Recruiter: Stina.Salary: £50,000 - £60,000.Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other.

We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.