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About the Role

Blackstone is seeking a senior leader to support and advance the firm’s global business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience capabilities. This role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, and execution of BC/DR capabilities across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise BCM Program – Build and integrate an outcome-driven, audit-ready program aligned to business priorities.
• Ensure Global Regulatory Alignment – Align with U.S., Europe, Asia requirements, and internal risk/audit standards.
• Embed Risk-Based Planning – Partner across business units to drive consistent, risk-informed continuity planning.
• Partner across Physical Security, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, Human Resources, and business leadership to drive an integrated enterprise resilience strategy and coordinated operational response framework.
• Lead program maturity efforts by establishing scalable governance, coordination, and operational resilience processes across a decentralized global environment.
• Promote enterprise awareness and adoption of business continuity and disaster recovery practices by clearly articulating program value, operational impact, and risk reduction outcomes to different stakeholder groups.
• Lead Business Impact Analyses (BIA) – Identify critical functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities with quantified impact.
• Define Critical Services & Operational Dependencies – Establish clear visibility into processes aligned with CSO and CIO priorities, and map third-party dependencies that drive business continuity and recovery outcomes.
• Design BC/DR Frameworks – Architect scalable, enterprise-wide capabilities aligned to CSO’s and operating strategy.
• Standardize Policies & Playbooks – Establish enterprise standards for continuity and crisis response and recovery.
• Maintain executable plans across business units and regions.
• Drive Training & Adoption – Embed ownership through training, communication, and accountability.
• Run exercises to confirm readiness and identify gaps.
• Coordinate cross-functional preparedness and recovery efforts across Physical Security, IT, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, HR, and other operational stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide readiness and response alignment.
• Drive enterprise-wide awareness, training, and preparedness initiatives to improve organizational understanding of continuity and recovery expectations.
• Support and Integrate with the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to ensure coordinated response across BC, DR, and physical security incidents.
• Function as a key escalation point for incident coordination, response execution, and recovery management.
• Serve as a central coordination leader across corporate functions during incidents, crises, and recovery events, ensuring alignment between security, technology, workplace operations, employee support, and regulatory response activities.
• Communicate BC/DR capabilities, compliance, and resilience maturity.
• Deliver KPIs and dashboards to drive transparency and improvement.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across key enterprise functions to ensure continuity, recovery, regulatory, and operational resilience objectives are consistently executed.
• Build trusted partnerships across business and corporate functions to strengthen engagement, accountability, and resilience ownership throughout the organization.
• Educate and advise stakeholders, including senior leadership and operational teams, on continuity, recovery, and resilience best practices to drive informed decision-making and program maturity.
• Oversee the Disaster Recovery Program – Align to continuity priorities; ensure SOX/DORA compliance and protect operations.
• Aligning with Application Owners – Define recovery objectives, dependencies, and sequencing ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Partner with GRC – Embed BC/DR into GRC, ERM, audit, and deal lifecycle.
• Implement standardized, executable recovery strategies with BXTI’s internal development standards team.
• Run testing and track performance to ensure readiness.

Requirements

• 15+ years leading enterprise security, BCM, and DR in complex global environments.
• Proven operator in high-tempo, high-accountability settings with strong judgment.
• Deep experience managing budgets, invoicing, contractors, and vendors.
• Track record building and scaling enterprise resilience programs.
• Expertise in risk identification, gap analysis, and solution execution.
• Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives across Physical Security, IT, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, HR, Risk, and business operations in complex global environments.
• Experience building, maturing, and operationalizing enterprise resilience programs in complex, matrixed, or decentralized organizational environments.
• Strong executive engagement skills to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across distributed stakeholders and operational functions in evolving organizational environments.
• Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills to build credibility and trust across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Communicate complex resilience, continuity, and recovery concepts in a practical and business-oriented manner.
• Experience driving organizational adoption and awareness of BC/DR programs in environments with varying levels of resilience maturity.
• Experience leading crisis response and recovery operations.
• Advanced program management and cross-functional coordination.
• Effective communicator in global, cross-cultural environments.
• Occasional global travel, estimated at less than 10% annually.

Skills

• Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery
• Operational Resilience
• Crisis Management
• Risk Mitigation
• Program Development
• Governance
• Training and Awareness
• Testing and Exercises
• Incident Response
• Regulatory Compliance (SOX, DORA)
• Risk Management
• Audit Standards
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Dependency Mapping
• Policy Development
• Playbook Creation
• Cross-functional Coordination
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Executive Reporting
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Integration
• Client Engagement
• Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs)
• Program Metrics
• Relationship Management
• Budget Management
• Vendor Management
• Program Scaling
• Gap Analysis
• Solution Execution
• Executive Engagement
• Communication
• Organizational Adoption
• Crisis Response
• Recovery Management
• Program Management

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Senior
• 15+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree required
• Master's degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $200,000 - $250,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, FSA)
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Discretionary bonuses
• Potential eligibility for equity and other incentive compensation

About the Company

• Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
• Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests.
• Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds.
• Further information is available at www.blackstone.com.
• Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.

Equal Opportunity

• Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.
• All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.
• If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).