Job Description

Business Continuity Planner
Location: Farnborough, with flexibility to work from home dependent on business demands
Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?
The Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Business Continuity Planner to lead and mature our Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) in alignment with ISO 22301 standards. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring operational resilience internally and across our vast portfolio of programmes, safeguarding mission-critical services and infrastructure.
What will you be doing?

• Lead the development, implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the BCMS in accordance with ISO 22301
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments across all functions, programmes and bids ensuring alignment with contractual requirements.
• Design and maintain continuity and recovery strategies, including crisis management, business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency response procedures.
• Coordinate and facilitate exercises and simulations, including tabletop and live scenario testing, to validate continuity plans.
• Monitor compliance and readiness, ensuring all plans meet internal audit standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Engage with internal stakeholders and external partners, including customers, regulatory bodies and special interest groups, to ensure continuity expectations are met.
• Report on BCMS performance, including metrics, gaps, and improvement actions, to senior leadership and governance boards.
• Stay current with evolving threats, technologies, and regulatory changes affecting business continuity throughout our business area

What do we need from you?

• Proven experience in business continuity planning within a defence, government, or critical infrastructure environment.
• In-depth knowledge and practical application of ISO 22301 and related standards (e.g., ISO 27001).
• Strong understanding of IT systems, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience conducting BIAs, risk assessments, and continuity exercises.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant certification such as Certified Business Continuity Professional or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor
• Member of the Business Continuity Institute
• Experience of governance, risk and compliance platforms and continuity planning tools.
• Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP).

Security Clearance:
Due to the nature of the role, candidates must be eligible for Developed Vetting Security Clearance
Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction.
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
- we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.
We're the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We don't wear capes (they're a safety hazard), but we do solve high-stakes problems with code, caffeine, and a healthy disregard for "how it's always been done."
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range: 53,700.00-68,800.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Skills Required