Crisis & Business Continuity Analyst

Solventum is a new healthcare company focused on improving lives through innovative solutions. The Crisis & Business Continuity Analyst will be responsible for building and maintaining crisis management and business continuity capabilities, conducting business impact analyses, and supporting organizational responses during disruptions.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and conduct business-impact analyses across all business units on an annual cycle, ensuring full enterprise coverage
• Facilitate BIA workshops and structured interviews with process owners to identify critical business processes and their dependencies, including people, technology, facilities, data, and third parties
• 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
• Produce program metrics and dashboards, including BIA completion, plan currency, exercise completion, and corrective action status
• 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) seven 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
• Ability to work successfully in a matrixed environment
• 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