Business Continuity Manager

Join the world leader in advanced energy storage solutions and be part of the success story of VARTA®! 

At Clarios, we’re powering today, into tomorrow. 

Do you want to join a company that cares about your future development and wellbeing? This is not just a statement. Do you know why?

Here are 10+1 things we guarantee:

• Professional development opportunities and language courses
• Flexible working hours, home office and extra vacation days
• Monthly bonus after 6 months of employment and annual bonus
• Extra contribution to meal card
• Special bonus for important life events (wedding, new baby)
• Complex onsite care – workplace massages, workshops, individual medical examinations, and consultations tailored to your needs
• Regular onsite exercises
• Modern private canteen
• Employee events, volunteering, and team-buildings
• Relocation package and housing allowance if you are relocating to Bratislava to join our team
• On top of that, you will receive a flexible benefits allowance so you can tailor the rest of the benefits to suit your individual needs - ProCare, Vas Lekar, 3rd Pillar investment, Multisport card, Golem one pass etc

Your role

As Business Continuity Manager, you will lead the continued development and integration of our global business continuity and resilience capability, helping ensure that critical manufacturing and business operations can be sustained or rapidly restored following a disruption.

You will work closely with IT, Operations, Risk, Security, Supply Chain and other business functions to establish practical continuity plans, clear governance and measurable organizational readiness. Acting as a trusted advisor across regions and sites, you will also provide leadership and guidance during business disruptions and crisis situations.

What you will do

As Business Continuity Manager (m/f/d), you will use your expertise in business continuity, operational resilience and risk management to:

• Lead and continuously develop the global Business Continuity Management (BCM) capability, including governance, policies, standards, roles, accountability, maturity assessments and improvement roadmaps.
• Drive Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and resilience assessments to identify critical processes, dependencies and recovery priorities, including Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Oversee the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans, Crisis Management Plans, recovery procedures and playbooks, ensuring that plans are practical, current and aligned with business priorities.
• Coordinate the annual BCM lifecycle across regions and sites, partnering with Business Continuity Coordinators and functional leaders on plan reviews, business impact assessments, training, exercises and reporting.
• Lead enterprise-level exercises and simulations to validate organizational readiness, identify gaps and ensure lessons learned are translated into clearly tracked improvements.
• Provide guidance during business disruptions and crisis events, supporting structured escalation, communication, stakeholder coordination and recovery activities.
• Develop BCM KPIs, dashboards and executive reporting to provide transparency on resilience risks, plan completeness, exercise maturity, compliance and recovery readiness, while managing related program financials.
• Drive effective use of BCM tools, data and automation, including SharePoint, planning platforms and workflow tools, while maintaining data quality across BIAs, recovery plans and dependencies.

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Risk Management or a related field.
• 7–10+ years of relevant professional experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management, Operational Resilience or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional or global programs and collaborating across multiple regions, sites and functions.
• Strong understanding of Business Impact Analysis, business continuity planning, recovery strategies, crisis management and resilience frameworks, ideally including ISO 22301.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to bring together business, IT, manufacturing, security, risk and external partners around common resilience objectives.
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at different organizational levels, including senior leadership, combined with calm and sound decision-making under pressure.
• Experience working with relevant digital tools and platforms, including SharePoint and Salesforce, with an interest in using workflow and automation solutions to improve efficiency and reporting.
• Fluent English communication skills suitable for working within a global, cross-functional environment.

Preferred qualifications

Professional certifications such as the following would be an advantage:

• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional)
• MBCI (Member of the Business Continuity Institute)
• ISO 22301 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor

What success looks like

In this role, success means that critical business and manufacturing services have current and executable continuity plans with clear ownership, dependencies and recovery priorities. Business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management and cyber resilience work together as an integrated capability, while exercises provide measurable evidence of readiness and clearly identified improvement actions.

You will provide leaders with transparent insight into resilience risks and preparedness and help ensure that, when disruptions occur, escalation, communication, decision-making and recovery activities are coordinated effectively.

The starting salary is at min 3 800 EUR/month gross for candidates who meet our minimum criteria.

This amount is our minimal offered salary. Clarios values each and every candidate and we ensure our compensation package aligns with your professional experience and your expectation.

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About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). 

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Equal Employment Opportunity:
Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email [email protected].

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