Business Continuity Specialist

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Senior Business Continuity Specialist — Rabobank Utrecht

Role overview

As a Senior Business Continuity Specialist you will ensure that critical IT domains have robust, practical Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and meaningful BCM exercises. You will deliver high-quality, time-sensitive BCM outputs in a complex IT environment, focusing on continuity, recovery and response during disruption.

Key responsibilities

• Create and maintain BCPs: Develop new, high-quality Business Continuity Plans for highly complex IT domains.
• Design continuity solutions: Define recovery strategies, workarounds, response priorities, dependencies, roles and responsibilities.
• Strategic analysis: Prepare strategic choices for recovery strategies, outline short- and long-term implementation actions.
• Operational collaboration: Work with operational teams to gather input, validate assumptions and understand practical constraints.
• BCM exercises: Prepare and facilitate risk-based exercises that test beyond basic walkthroughs.
• Assessments and maturity: Update Business Impact Analyses and risk assessments and increase their maturity.
• Knowledge sharing & reporting: Share approach and standards, document exercise outcomes and lessons learned, and support management reporting on BCM lifecycle progress.

Who you are (required)

• Experience: Minimum 7 years in Business Continuity Management with hands-on experience creating BCPs and defining continuity strategies for complex environments and multiple scenarios (including third-party loss).
• Exercises: Proven experience preparing and facilitating BCM exercises beyond basic procedures.
• Regulation & standards: Able to interpret requirements/regulation and translate into practical implementation, or have in-depth experience with DORA.
• IT environment: Experience working in an IT environment.
• Delivery & independence: Able to work independently, prioritise effectively and deliver high-quality outputs within short timelines.
• Coaching & communication: Able to coach others practically, explain BCM approach clearly and produce clear, high-quality documentation.
• Language: Professional fluency in English (mandatory).

Preferred experience

• Experience in vital/regulated sectors (financial services, oil & gas, telecom) with strict availability requirements.
• Familiarity with Archer or comparable BCM/risk/control tooling.
• BCM-related certification (e.g. MBCI/FBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer) or equivalent.

Assignment details & practical requirements

• Number of positions: 2 FTE
• Duration: 12–15 months (no current outlook on extension)
• Employment type: Self-employed contractors (ZZP) not allowed
• Availability: Candidate must be available for the entire duration of the assignment
• Identification: Candidate must possess a valid passport or ID card
• Pre-employment screening: Start is contingent on successful completion of required pre-employment screening

Eisen

• Language: English mandatory
• Assignment duration: 12-15 months
• You have at least 7 years of experience in Business Continuity Management
• You have hands-on and proven experience creating Business Continuity Plans
  and defining continuity strategies for complex environments and a variety
  of scenarios, including at least losses of third parties
• You have experience preparing and facilitating a range of BCM exercises
  that test more than basic procedures
• You can easily interpret requirements and regulation and translate them
  into practical implementation or you have in-depth experience with DORA
• You have experience in an IT environment
• You are professionally fluent in English and able to create clear,
  high-quality documentation
• Due to the congestion at the parking lot Rabobank location Croeselaan in
  Utrecht, external staff will no longer be able to park at the Croeselaan
  from Monday through Thursday
• Midlance constructions are not allowed according to Rabobank policy
• Suppliers must be aware of the laws and regulations regarding employment
  conditions and Rabobank’s Collective Labour Agreement
• This assignment is placed in scale 10
• Candidate should be submitted exclusively to Magnit – Rabobank during the
  exclusivity period of 4 business days on one request
• Furthermore, the candidate has to be available throughout the entire
  duration of the assignment
• All submitted candidates must be in possession of a valid Passport or ID
  card, which must be taken along to the interview and at the start of the
  assignment
• If the candidate is selected to start, a pre-employment screening will be
  executed
• Your candidate is only allowed to start after the pre-employment screening
  has been completed successfully
• Complete all candidate details correctly. Enter the candidate’s contact
  details under ‘email address and telephone number’. The same applies to the
  address

Gunningscriteria

• Het volgende ervaring is preferred, maar niet alle elementen zijn vereist
• Ervaring in vitale sectoren, zoals financiële dienstverlening, olie en gas,
  telecom of vergelijkbare gereguleerde omgevingen met strikte
  beschikbaarheidseisen
• Ervaring met Archer of vergelijkbare BCM-, risicobeheer- of controletools
• BCM-gerelateerde certificering, zoals MBCI/FBCI, ISO 22301 Lead
  Implementer, of gelijkwaardig

Je sollicitatie dient uiterlijk 21 augustus 2026 om 10:00 uur door ons te zijn ingediend, voorzien van een motivatie (waarin wordt toegelicht hoe aan de eisen en gunningscriteria wordt voldaan) en twee referenties. Wij ontvangen je gegevens graag minimaal één werkdag vóór de sluitingsdatum.