IT Continuity Plan Manager

Experience: 8–10 Years

Language: Trilingual (English + French + Dutch)

Mode: Hybrid (3 days/Week)

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Duration: 1 Year + Possible Extension

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The Mission

The IT Continuity Plan (ITCP) Manager is responsible for leading the project to define, document, and implement the IT Continuity Plan. The mission aims to ensure that IT continuity arrangements supporting critical business activities are identified, documented, and aligned with the existing Business Continuity Plan (BCP), regulatory requirements, and applicable corporate standards.

At its core, the ITCP Manager translates business continuity requirements into a structured IT continuity framework by identifying critical IT services, recovery objectives, key dependencies, recovery strategies, and associated recovery procedures. The role works closely with business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, application owners, cybersecurity experts, and external service providers to gather the required information and build a coherent IT Continuity Plan.

The ITCP Manager acts as a project lead and coordinator throughout the definition and implementation phases. The role facilitates collaboration between the different contributors involved in the IT continuity planning process to ensure that recovery scenarios, responsibilities, dependencies, and recovery objectives are consistently documented and aligned across the organization.

A significant part of the mission consists of consolidating recovery-related information into a single IT Continuity Plan, defining the required governance framework, documenting recovery procedures, aligning recovery strategies with Business Impact Analysis outputs, and ensuring that Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are clearly defined for critical IT services.

The ITCP Manager also coordinates the validation of the developed plan through workshops, walkthroughs, and testing activities where appropriate. Identified gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities are documented and discussed with the relevant stakeholders to support the successful implementation of the ITCP.

Strong governance and communication skills are critical to the success of this mission. The ITCP Manager ensures compliance with applicable requirements, including NIS2 obligations, internal audit recommendations and corporate frameworks. Regular reporting is provided to management regarding continuity readiness, recovery testing, identified risks, remediation actions and overall resilience of critical IT services.

Language skills are very important too. Dutch is spoken in Doel, French in Tihange, and collaboration with IT teams is typically in English, which is also the main written language. It’s essential that the IT Continuity Plan Manager can communicate in each and has a strong understanding of the others.

The Mission Covers

• Critical business applications and supporting platforms
• Server, storage and backup infrastructures
• Network and telecommunications services
• Identity and access management services
• Digital Workplace services
• Cybersecurity recovery and resilience capabilities
• Third-party IT service providers and dependencies
• IT disaster recovery testing and exercises
• IT continuity governance, documentation and compliance reporting

Profile Description

a. Activities

• He/she defines the approach, governance framework, methodology and deliverables required to establish the IT Continuity Plan (ITCP).
• He/she ensures alignment between the IT Continuity Plan, the Business Continuity Plan, regulatory requirements (e.g., NIS2) and corporate frameworks.
• He/she coordinates the concerned internal teams, strategic partners and other subcontractors contributing to IT recovery capabilities.
• He/she acts as the central coordination point between infrastructure, network, hosting, cybersecurity, application and support teams during the ITCP definition and implementation phases.
• He/she coordinates the identification of critical IT services, systems, dependencies and recovery requirements supporting business continuity objectives.
• He/she ensures that recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), recovery procedures and restoration priorities are defined, documented and maintained.
• He/she consolidates the contributions of the different IT domain owners into a coherent and integrated IT Continuity Plan.
• He/she organises and coordinates workshops and validation activities to confirm the completeness and consistency of the ITCP.
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