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# Vacature Senior Business & IT Continuity Expert

- **Company:** De Heer Leeters
- **Location:** Veldhoven, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €5,800
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Business Software, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Runbook, Strategies of Testing, Test Scripts
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://easyapply.jobs/r/OJzQFzO27x6q6OcRxVS

## About the Role

* A bachelor's or master's degree in IT, Information Security, Risk Management or a comparable field, or equivalent experience.
 * 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in complex, international, technology-driven environments.
 * Proven experience with Business Impact Analysis, recovery strategies, continuity and recovery runbooks, dependency mapping and recovery testing.
 * Experience connecting business recovery requirements to applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers and IT service recovery capabilities.
 * A pragmatic, evidence-driven approach, with the confidence to challenge assumptions when evidence is not sufficient.
 * Experience designing and facilitating tabletop walkthroughs and hands-on business and IT recovery exercises.
 * Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, and clear communication in English.

Nice-to-haves

 * A certification such as CBCI, CBCP, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Lead Auditor, ITIL, CISM, CISA or CISSP.
 * Practical familiarity with ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 27031 and ITIL.
 * The ability to judge whether test evidence proves preventive, detective and recovery measures are effective.
 * Strong project management skills, attention to detail and disciplined follow-through.
 * Dutch language skills.

## Description

* You update the sector business runbooks, create IT runbooks and drive closure of critical open actions.
 * You validate the design and content of the Business Continuity Master Runbook, including its lifecycle model, ownership model and RACI.
 * You define and collect runbooks, business applications and business-critical data sets and coordinate their loading into the continuity tooling.
 * You develop or review recovery scenarios and test scripts, run hands-on recovery exercises, validate outcomes and consolidate the improvement plan.
 * You set up and drive end-to-end business continuity and recovery exercises across runbooks, departments or sites.
 * You coordinate the creation and peer review of recovery runbooks for business-managed applications.
 * You connect business recovery requirements to IT continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and support user acceptance testing of IT-delivered enablers.
 * You review the test strategy with Security, Corporate/IT BCM and IT teams and share current operational practices.
 * You plan the resources needed to deliver the continuity scope through 2027, coordinate workshops and report on progress, risks, readiness and decisions.