Senior Business Continuity Planner
Senior Business Continuity Planners tend to own the actual planning artifacts of a continuity program — recovery plans, exercise scenarios, response playbooks, and the maintenance cycle that keeps them usable. The work is documentation-heavy, cross-functional, and high-trust.
What it's like to be a Senior Business Continuity Planner
Days tend to involve plan development and review, exercise design and facilitation, dependency mapping, and the steady work of keeping continuity documentation current. You might be revising a critical recovery procedure Monday, designing a tabletop scenario Tuesday, and updating dependency diagrams Thursday. The work tends to live in planning templates, exercise materials, and the conversations with business unit leaders who own the underlying processes.
The harder part is often how easily plans go stale. Processes evolve, technology changes, people leave; documentation falls behind quietly. Driving the maintenance cycle is a steady, sometimes thankless skill. Variance across employers is real — regulated industries run formal review cadences; others depend on planner initiative. Exercise quality can shape whether plans are actually trusted.
People who tend to thrive here are documentation-disciplined, cross-functionally curious, and steady in the slow rhythm of plan refinement. They tend to enjoy the rare moment when a plan actually gets used and works. The trade-off can be the invisibility of well-maintained plans — the work tends to get noticed only when something fails.
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