Crisis & Business Continuity Analyst

About the role

The Crisis & Business Continuity Analyst position plays a crucial role in protecting Solventum's global operations. This hands-on role involves building, maintaining, and continuously improving Solventum's crisis management and business continuity capability. It requires collaboration with the Global Security team and other stakeholders to conduct business impact analyses, develop and maintain business continuity plans, design and facilitate crisis management exercises, and support the organization's response during actual disruptions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct business impact analyses across all business units annually, ensuring full enterprise coverage.
• Facilitate BIA workshops and structured interviews with process owners to identify critical business processes and their dependencies.
• Establish and document recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for critical processes and supporting applications; validate alignment between business requirements and IT recovery capabilities.
• Analyze BIA results to identify gaps, single points of failure, and unmitigated dependencies; present prioritized findings and recommendations to business and program leadership.
• Maintain BIA data as a current, authoritative record, refreshing it as the organization, its processes, and its technology change.
• Develop, write, and maintain business continuity plans for business units and departments across the organization, ensuring every critical business function has a current, actionable, and exercised plan.
• Translate BIA findings into documented recovery strategies and procedures, including manual workarounds, alternate work locations, work transfer, cross-training, and third-party contingencies.
• Drive the annual plan review and update cycle: track plan currency and ownership, coordinate updates with plan owners, and escalate overdue or deficient plans.
• Develop and deliver training for plan owners, recovery teams, and new employees on continuity roles and responsibilities.
• Build and sustain strong working relationships with functional leaders and process owners across the organization; using clear communication to drive engagement and accountability for continuity readiness.
• Build and manage an annual exercise calendar that validates plans, recovery strategies, and team readiness across the organization.
• Conduct continuity-focused risk assessments to identify threats to critical operations, facilities, technology, and supply chains.
• Coordinate with enterprise risk management, information security, and IT disaster recovery teams to ensure continuity risks are captured, rated, and addressed consistently.
• Support the crisis management team during activations and real-world events, including scribing, situation reporting, drafting emergency communications, and managing response documentation.
• Maintain crisis management playbooks, contact rosters, call trees, and the emergency notification system, ensuring accuracy through regular validation.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into plans and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher AND 7 years of experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, risk management, or a related field in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Professional certification in business continuity and/or emergency management, such as CBCI, CBCP, MBCI (previous or current).
• Experience with ISO 22301.
• Familiarity with other relevant standards, regulations, and frameworks, including ISO 22317 / ISO 22361 / NIST SP 800-34 / NFPA 1600.
• Experience in conducting business impact analyses and developing business continuity plans.
• Working knowledge of risk assessment techniques, BIA methodology, and recovery strategy development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to turn data and interviews into clear findings and recommendations.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams to target dates.
• High level of individual motivation and autonomy; able to drive work to completion with limited direction.
• Proficiency with business continuity software platforms (ServiceNow BCM) and emergency notification systems (e.g., Horizon, Everbridge).
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure, application recovery, and data protection principles sufficient to partner effectively with IT disaster recovery teams.
• Familiarity with relevant standards, regulations, and frameworks, including: ISO 22301 / ISO 22317 / ISO 22361 NIST SP 800-34 NFPA 1600 ASIS Business Continuity and Crisis Management Standards.

Qualifications

• Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Benefits

Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $107,600 - $147,950, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards.

Pay

$107,600 - $147,950

Schedule

Remote-United States

Benefits

Applicable to US Applicants Only: The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards.