Service Continuity & Disaster Recovery Manager

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Every day, we see the impact that our treatments offer and the potential they have to provide a world beyond cancer and other debilitating conditions. We continue to push boundaries and reach new heights in everything we do, supported by significant investment into new technologies and therapies.

Summary of Position

The Service Continuity & Disaster Recovery Manager owns and leads the global IT service continuity and disaster recovery framework. The role ensures that business-critical applications and supporting technology services have documented, risk-based and testable recovery arrangements aligned with business requirements, regulatory expectations and operational priorities.

Working closely with Business Application Owners, infrastructure and operations teams, cybersecurity, quality, risk and third-party providers, the position establishes the recovery governance, application-level continuity status, testing roadmap and evidence required to demonstrate readiness and drive continuous improvement.

Essential Functions

- Service Continuity and DR Governance

Define, maintain and continuously improve the IT Service Continuity and Disaster Recovery policy, framework, standards, governance model and operating procedures.

- Establish clear roles for application and technical owners, infrastructure teams, vendors and test participants, ensuring recovery documentation and evidence remain controlled, current, auditable and aligned with quality, security, risk and GxP requirements.

Application Continuity Inventory and Status

- Identify all in-scope business applications and technology services requiring continuity and disaster recovery coverage, and maintain a consolidated register of ownership, criticality, dependencies, recovery requirements and capability, test status, gaps, remediation actions and readiness.

- Facilitate reviews with Business Application Owners to validate business impact, recovery priorities, RTO, RPO, minimum service levels and recovery sequencing, and provide transparent status reporting, risk escalation and decision support to IT and business leadership.

DR Documentation and Templates

- Own the standard Disaster Recovery plan template and guidance, ensuring each application or service has an approved, usable plan covering prerequisites, dependencies, contacts, recovery and validation steps, fallback arrangements, communications and evidence retention.

- Define standard templates for test scenarios, objectives, schedules, execution records, issue logs, results, lessons learned and remediation tracking.

DR Test Strategy, Scenarios and Objectives

- Design realistic, risk-based Disaster Recovery test scenarios for applications, platforms, infrastructure, locations and third-party services.

- Coordinate with Business Application Owners and technical teams to define scope, assumptions, success criteria, responsibilities, recovery sequence and evidence requirements, ensuring tests validate technical recovery and business service restoration.

Testing Roadmap and Schedule

- Define and manage a multi-year roadmap and annual schedules for risk-based DR and service continuity testing, prioritising critical services, overdue tests, major changes, new applications, significant incidents and regulatory commitments.

- Coordinate resources, environments, maintenance windows, vendors, communications and approvals; monitor delivery against plans, resolve conflicts and escalate delays or unmitigated risks.

Test Execution, Results and Improvement

- Lead or coordinate tabletop, technical recovery, application recovery and end-to-end business service continuity exercises, documenting recovery times, data recovery, deviations, failures, control gaps, operational observations and business validation evidence.

- Issue formal test reports covering conclusions, readiness, lessons learned and corrective actions with owners and target dates; track remediation to closure, verify improvements and update plans, scenarios and future test objectives.

Stakeholder, Audit and Supplier Management

- Build effective relationships with Business Application Owners and communicate continuity risks, requirements and decisions clearly, while providing training, awareness and practical guidance to owners, technical teams and test participants.

- Support audits, inspections and risk reviews with accurate plans, schedules, results, status and remediation evidence, and assess third-party continuity capabilities, contractual commitments, test participation and evidence quality.

Requirements

Must-have Experience/Skills:

- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT service continuity, disaster recovery, business continuity, infrastructure resilience or a comparable position, including ownership of enterprise DR programmes and testing.

- Demonstrated experience creating DR frameworks, recovery plan templates, test scenarios, test objectives, test schedules, test reports and remediation roadmaps.

- Experience managing an application and service continuity inventory, assessing readiness and reporting status and risks to senior stakeholders.

- Strong understanding of business impact analysis, application criticality, technology dependencies, RTO, RPO, recovery sequencing and continuity risk management.

- General working knowledge of operating systems, server and storage platforms, virtualisation, cloud services, databases, networks, backup and recovery technologies, and common enterprise application architectures.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with Business Application Owners, technical specialists, vendors, auditors and senior leadership.

- Strong facilitation, planning, documentation, analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management capabilities.

- Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers during complex exercises and high-pressure recovery situations.

- Fluent professional English.

- Ability and willingness to travel internationally when required.

Nice-to-have Experience/Skills:

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Risk Management or a related field.

- Professional certification in business continuity, disaster recovery, IT service management, risk or project management.

- Experience in a regulated environment, particularly pharmaceuticals, life sciences or another GxP-controlled industry.

- Experience with hybrid infrastructure environments spanning on-premises data centres and public cloud platforms.

- Experience assessing third-party continuity capabilities and supporting internal or external audits.

Travel

- This position may require domestic and international travel to Curium sites, recovery locations, data centres, supplier facilities and test events, depending on business and programme needs.

Benefits

- 200 hours of vacation (equivalent to 25 days)

- 5 sick days per year

- Annual Bonus

- Spot Bonus

- Equal gender pay

- Cafeteria Benefit (online benefit portal) - 1930 CZK net/month

- Cafeteria Compensation Bonus (after trial period) - 4750 CZK gross/quarter

- Flexible start and end of working hours

- Home office - max 3 days/week

- Meal card contribution of 107 CZK/day worked (100% paid by Curium)

- Multisport card (optional benefit through the cafeteria system)

- Contributions to pension (3% from salary)

- Employee referral bonus program

- Contributions to ACCA/CIMA/ICU qualification

- Financial support for upskilling qualifications

- Contributions to accident and life insurance (100% paid by Curium)

- Company events and activities (social events, volunteering, and team building)

- Coffee, a variety of tea, fruit and vegetables daily at the workplace

- Friendly international environment

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Curium is an equal opportunity employer and believes everyone deserves respect, dignity and equality. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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