Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery, SVP - Physical Security

Position Summary

Blackstone is seeking a senior enterprise resilience leader to oversee and evolve its global Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery program. This role is responsible for developing and governing an integrated resilience strategy across People, Facility, and Technology domains, ensuring the firm's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Blackstone's enterprise resilience strategy across: People Resilience, Facility Resilience, and Technology Resilience.

• Build the global Business Continuity Management (BCM) program, including governance, policies, standards, playbooks, training, testing, and crisis management frameworks.

• Lead Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), identify critical services and dependencies, and embed risk-based continuity planning throughout the organization.

• Career management, crisis management, executive communications, and recovery efforts.

• Oversee disaster recovery governance, testing, recovery preparedness, and regulatory resilience requirements in partnership with Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) and technology stakeholders.

• Provide executive reporting, metrics, and program updates to leadership, audit, regulatory stakeholders, and clients.

Qualifications

• 15+ years leading enterprise resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, operational resilience, security, or related programs within complex global organizations.

• Demonstrated experience leading resilience programs across People, Facility, and/or Technology domains, with deep expertise in at least two of the three areas and the ability to effectively coordinate and integrate all three pillars into a cohesive enterprise-wide resilience program.

• Proven success in building and scaling enterprise resilience programs.

• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional execution.

• Experience leading crisis management and incident response efforts.