Manager Risk & Business Continuity

About the Role

Catrion Group is seeking a Manager, Risk & Business Continuity to join their team in Jeddah. This full-time role involves collaborating with department heads and the executive team to develop and implement strategies for anticipating, addressing, and mitigating the effects of business interruptions. The manager will also oversee the organization's enterprise risk management program, identifying and assessing risks that could impact the company's reputation, safety, security, or financial success.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments by collecting and analyzing documentation, statistics, reports, market trends, and potential impacts from business disruptions.
• Establish and maintain enterprise risk management and business continuity policies, procedures, risk registers, mitigation plans, business impact analyses, and crisis response and recovery playbooks.
• Review risk management policies and protocols, recommending and implementing improvements.
• Review and validate risk mitigation plans, assessing their effectiveness.
• Recommend and implement appropriate risk treatments, including insurance, safety and security measures, business continuity arrangements, and recovery measures.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish risk appetite and tolerance thresholds that support risk-based decision-making.
• Provide risk management advice and assessment support across the organization.
• Prepare and present risk reports, recommendations, and proposals to executive leadership.
• Develop, maintain, review, and enhance business continuity and recovery plans and procedures.
• Maintain the organization's risk management system, whether manual or software-based.
• Conduct business impact analyses for departments and critical functions to identify dependencies, recovery priorities, and disruption impacts.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee business continuity and crisis management exercises involving all organizational levels and critical functions.
• Collaborate with IT to establish practices for protecting and restoring data and systems following disasters, cyber incidents, or other disruptions.
• Define and implement recovery strategies that enable the organization to operate at an acceptable level when infrastructure is partially or fully unavailable.
• Document exercise scenarios, objectives, results, lessons learned, and corrective actions.
• Develop and deliver training and awareness programs on enterprise risk management, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
• Coordinate with Quality, Health, Safety and Security functions and relevant authorities to align emergency management plans with applicable standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Engage risk champions to maintain accurate and current risk registers.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual enterprise risk management reports.
• Monitor agreed-upon risk and business continuity actions, escalate overdue items, and report implementation status.
• Promote risk ownership and process adherence across the organization through guidance and ongoing engagement.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 6-10 years of experience in risk management and business continuity.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement comprehensive risk and business continuity plans.
• Strong analytical skills for conducting risk assessments and business impact analyses.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Jeddah, requiring collaboration with various departments and executive leadership to ensure organizational resilience and risk mitigation.