Business Continuity Manager

Job Description:

GRC/Business Continuity Manager

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our three distinct business divisions. Huntsman offers unsurpassed opportunities to build a successful future. Our diverse portfolio creates a range of career fields including manufacturing, research and development, technical services, sales and marketing, customer service - and the list goes on.

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Huntsman is seeking a GRC/Business Continuity Manager supporting the IT Division located in The Woodlands, Texas. This position will report to the Chief Information Security Officer. This position is open in multiple locations: Poland, Costa Rica, The Woodlands (Texas, USA), and remote opportunities across the US.

Job Scope

The GRC / Business Continuity Manager drives the design, implementation, and communication of business continuance, governance, risk, and compliance processes to manage cybersecurity risk.

In summary, as the GRC / Business Continuity Manager, you will:

With limited supervision, significant decision-making, and guiding third party managed services:

• Maintain and enforce Information Security policies, standards, and control frameworks
• Manage the risks associated with exceptions to Information Security policy and standards
• Identify and prioritize enterprise level Information Security threats and risks with Information Security leadership
• Support the measurement and reporting of cyber risks across the organization including documentation updates, scoping, assessments, management reporting, and driving remediation of issues
• Establish, monitor, and report key performance indicators and key risk indicators for cyber risks
• Communicate and present key security risks at a variety of levels including business and technology leaders to ensure a clear understanding of these risks
• Accountable for ensuring that identified audit and assessment findings and actions are tracked to closure and reported to leadership
• Serve as subject matter expert to service delivery on cyber risk, compliance, control and information security during planning and throughout solution delivery lifecycle
• Guide third party risk assessments to review adherence to business identified requirements, Information Security policies, and standards
• Administer, maintain, develop, and implement enterprise policies, standards and procedures to ensure that all systems have business continuity plans (BCPs) in place and processes and procedures are available in a disaster situation
• Drive implementation of Business Continuity Management (BCM) across Information Technology as per the enterprise BCM policy and mandated process and templates
• Accountability for effective and efficient BCP maintenance of Global IT BCP/DR as part of governance priorities
• Manage audits and tests related to the IT BCP and monitor compliance through ongoing audit and sample reviews
• Actively support the BCM incident management and monitor lessons learned implementation, including simulation exercises
• Provide required presence to essential functions in the workplace on a regular basis and work extra hours if needed. If applicable, ability to work overtime may be needed to ensure required staffing capacity to meet daily production objectives
• Work collaboratively with team members with different backgrounds and perspectives
• Assist other employees in pursuit of Huntsman company goals. Follow instructions and perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
• Participate in Environmental, Health, & Safety initiatives as set forth by the company. Participate in and complete company-required training programs

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States if applying for the role in the Americas.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor‘s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related discipline and 7+ years in IT and business/industry.
• Experience working in a global/multi-national organization in a shared services organization.
• Experience in working across large geographically distributed and diverse teams, matrixed into a larger overall IT organization.

Certifications, licenses, or registrations:

• ITSM (preferred, focused on ITIL or COBIT)
• GRCP, CRISC, or other IT risk and compliance certifications

Skills and knowledge

• Demonstrated experience managing business continuity within an organization, including overseeing service reliability engineering for systems and ensuring systems are equipped with business continuity plans
• Demonstrated experience in managing information security organizations, including incident response, data security and privacy, and data loss prevention
• Knowledge of current information security and experience in compliance and resolution
• Experience with hardware and software asset management as it relates to business continuity
• Experience leading a combination of global internal and third-party managed services resources
• Demonstrated skills with managing IT vendor service level agreements, risk and controls, contracts, and resources
• Demonstrated project and program management knowledge specific to business continuity, governance, risk, and compliance
• Experience with managing and enabling lean delivery and governance models
• Ability to understand and assess enterprise architecture blueprints to design business continuity plans
• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Demonstrated ability to engage and perform in outsourced and managed services environment
• Excellent consulting, communication and organization skills

Huntsman is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation and/or expression or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have facilities national or local.

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