AVP - Business Continuity Management

Job Description :

Job Title : Associate Vice President - Business Continuity Management

Location : Bangalore

Grade : L4B

About the Function :

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our busines s. W ith a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you'll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the role

Diageo's Global Business Operations (GBO) aims to demonstrate the Finance Operating Model by supporting standard processes and systems with effective and efficient shared services across Diageo, by internal services, through Business Operations centres across Diageo. GBO has an employee base of approx. 2500 FTEs providing business support for migrated markets across Diageo. GBO plays a central role in governance and compliance for Diageo.

This role, reporting to the Vice President - Risk, Controls and Compliance, is an individual contributor position responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining comprehensive business continuity strategies that ensure operational stability and service continuity across all Global Business Operations (GBO) functions.

The individual in this role will serve as a strategic liaison between global and local teams, driving preparedness, coordinating response efforts, and ensuring compliance with enterprise-wide resilience frameworks and applicable regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities Include

• . Strategic Leadership :

Refine and implement the BCP strategy for Global Business Operations, ensuring alignment with global enterprise resilience standards and governance frameworks.

Work with the GBO SPOCs to design, implement, and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery plans for all key operational areas, ensuring readiness and compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.

Lead Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and risk assessments to identify critical business processes, dependencies, and potential vulnerabilities.

Act as the BCP lead during business disruptions, coordinating incident response, recovery, and partner communication to minimize downtime and ensure service continuity.

Partner with functional heads across Finance, HR, IT, Security team, etc and other enabling functions to embed continuity principles into day-to-day operations and major transformation initiatives.

Plan and conduct regular BCP drills, simulations, and awareness sessions to ensure readiness across teams and continuous improvement of response capabilities.

Maintain all documentation, metrics, dashboards, and reports related to BCP and resilience present updates to senior leadership and for audit or compliance reviews.

Stay abreast of emerging risks, standard processes, and regulatory changes to enhance the organization's resilience maturity.

Qualifications & Experience

Key Competencies

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Worker Type : Regular

Primary Location :

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-06

Skills Required

Operational Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning