Head - Enterprise Resilience, Security & Safety

Description

About this role

Team Overview

The Resilience, Safety and Security team (RSS) is part of the broader Enterprise Services team, which contributes to the continued success of BlackRock through strategic solutions and business services that provide each employee with an efficient, resilient, safe, and high-performance work experience. Enterprise Resilience, Safety and Security is comprised of four key functions - Business Continuity Management (BCM), Disaster Recovery (DR), Security and Safety. The team has the responsibility for ensuring a risk-based management approach to protect BlackRock staff and visitors, reputation, physical and information assets, and operations from disruptive events.

Position Purpose

This position will drive the Enterprise Resilience, Security & Safety program in BlackRock Staff and offices in Asia Pacific region and work to maintain a strong business resiliency, preparedness, and response environment in the event of a disaster. This role will be responsible for periodic BCM, Security & Safety risk analysis and coordinate with the functions for ongoing program enhancement. This role will report to the Global of Head of Enterprise Risk, Resilience & Response, who will provide oversight across implementation activities and strategies.

The Head of Resilience, Security and Safety team will be responsible to establish, cultivate, and maintain relationships with partners in the APAC region to be able to effectively understand and represent their interests. He’ll provide overall direction for the Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program to support and maintain a strong business resiliency, preparedness, and response environment in the event of a disaster. This role will be responsible for working with business leaders and Crisis Management Teams (comprised of both business and support groups) in the BlackRock Asia-Pacific Offices and implement the crisis management capability and BCM program.

Your key responsibilities:
Crisis Management
- Ensure ongoing monitoring of disruptive incidents across the region and coordinate with regional and country stakeholders to ensure appropriate response and communications.
- Coordinate with stakeholders during Crisis Management invocations and provide support during emergencies, incidents or crises that require the activation of business continuity plans.
- Drive Crisis Management invocations and provide support during emergencies, incidents or crises that require the activation of business continuity plans.
- Develop and implement Crisis Management training and tabletop exercises in the region.
- Ensure Crisis Team Memberships are appropriately maintained in-line with local regulatory requirement and firm’s policy and standards.
- Implement command, control, communication, and situational awareness processes during crisis management response.
- Deliver interactive, immersive and realistic briefings, training and exercising to develop, rehearse and test incidents to crisis response capability.
- Coordinate with the country leadership, enabling functions, Human Resource, L&C and Corporate Communications to manage Pandemic response in line with global BlackRock requirements and local government restrictions.

Business Continuity
- Ensure that team works with business stakeholders to develop, implement, and maintain business continuity planning in line with global standards and local regulations with business functions.
- Conduct periodic Risk Assessments, Impact Analysis and identify recovery requirements and work with the business to develop and implement recovery plans in the event of a business disruption.
- Ensure plans are completed qualitatively and in-line with BCM policy and standard requirements.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Ensure recovery strategies are aligned with business requirements and ‘fit for purpose.’
- Lead the planning and execution of resilience projects and initiatives in alignment with strategic priorities defined and agreed with global and regional stakeholders.
- Manage and support annual business recovery exercises, which may include Dedicated Recovery Sites (DRS), Remote Access, Alternate Office, and Work Transfer, depending on function and location.
- Identify areas to mature in the exercise program in order to increase confidence in our recovery capabilities.
- Ensure exercise remediation/gaps are acted upon and closed in a timely manner.
- Where needed, support the regional implementation or execution of initiatives for other workstreams within RRR.

Disaster Recovery:

- Support global planning and testing efforts around the resilience of BlackRock’s most critical technology.

Security:

- Lead the response to regional security incidents related to the safety of our employees and offices.
- Responsible for implementation