Business Continuity Coordinator

Job Description

IDEMIA Secure Transactions (IST), a division of IDEMIA Group, is the leading technology provider that makes payments and connectivity safer and easier. With unmatched expertise in cryptography and credential issuance, IST is trusted by over 2,000 financial institutions, mobile operators, automotive manufacturers and IoT providers worldwide. Every day, IST secures billions of essential transactions, ensuring the highest levels of data protection and convenience.

Purpose

We are looking for a proactive and collaborative professional to join our Security Team and help maintain and reinforce resilience across the organization, in collaboration with our business services within an international context. Reporting to the Chief Resilience Officer, this role will support the organisational and operational integration of frameworks that support crisis preparedness and business continuity across the division, ensuring effective coordination of all stakeholders involved and alignment with business objectives and resilience best practices. This role offers an opportunity to play a pivotal role in developing and sustaining a resilience culture throughout the company, as well as to reinforce maturity and empowerment across our teams.

Key Missions

Business Continuity & Recovery Planning

• Contribute to enforce the business continuity governance and policy across IST, ensuring effective coordination between business and stakeholders (operations, IT, HR, Supply).
• Work with business functions to maintain business impact analysis and develop mitigation strategies while ensuring alignment with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support teams in building and maintaining comprehensive business continuity and recovery plans tailored to business priorities and objectives.
• Develop resilience testing and exercise with operational teams to ensure business continuity consistency and efficiency across the Division.
• Raise awareness through training and communication programs, ensuring stakeholders are trained and prepared.
• Monitor the overall status of business continuity across the division and report on associated risks and areas of improvement.

Crisis Management Preparedness

• Enforce crisis management methodology and best practices within the Division.
• Maintain IST Division level crisis procedures and support the BUs in deploying crisis management frameworks within their respective perimeters.
• Support operational teams in maintaining adequate crisis communication plans.
• Maintain adequate solutions to ensure crisis management readiness.
• Conduct training and communication programs, ensuring readiness of stakeholders involved in crisis management operations.
• Organise and manage crisis simulation exercises.
• Continuously improve resilience strategies based on lessons learned and best practices.

Profile Description

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Risk Management, IT or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in business continuity, disaster recovery or risk management, ideally within an IT company and an international environment.
• Deep knowledge of business continuity standards and regulations (ISO 22301, DORA).
• Hands‑on experience with BIAs, risk assessments and crisis management.

Soft Skills

• Problem‑solving mindset and ability to engage transversely different teams in a “project mode” to achieve a common goal.
• Ability to educate both technical and non‑technical audiences about resilience stakes and challenges.
• English 100% fluent (written & spoken).

The position is based in Paris Headquarter.

We Offer

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