Business Resilience Manager - Remote (Solventum)

SOLVENTUM•Remote - Minnesota, MN

3d•$163,200 - $224,400•Remote

About The Position

The Business Resilience Manager leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Solventum’s enterprise Business Resilience program. The role establishes the governance, methodologies, standards, tools, and assurance activities needed to strengthen preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience across global operations. It sits within Global Security and partners with business units and functions to align Business Resilience with Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, Cybersecurity Incident Response, Manufacturing and Operational Technology resilience, Supply Chain, Enterprise Risk Management, and related disciplines. The Manager leads enterprise Business Impact Analysis and continuity-planning cycles, sets minimum program and plan requirements, maintains an integrated view of critical services and dependencies, and oversees exercises and corrective actions. The role also supports Internal Audit and management remediation commitments. This is a hands-on program management position that translates strategy and audit requirements into practical methods, accountable workstreams, measurable outcomes, and sustainable business practices. The position is remote within the United States and may include up to 25% domestic and international travel. Relocation assistance is not authorized. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without employment visa sponsorship. The expected US compensation range is $163,200–$224,400, including base pay and variable incentive pay if eligible. The role may also be eligible for benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings and flexible spending accounts, disability benefits, life insurance, voluntary benefits, paid absences, and retirement benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher and at least 10 years of experience in business resilience, disaster recovery, crisis management, risk management, or a related field in a private, public, government, or military environment; alternatively, a high school diploma/GED and at least 14 years of such experience.
Professional certification in business continuity and/or emergency management, such as CBCI, CBCP, or MBCI (previous or current).
Experience with ISO 22301.
Legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams to target dates and produce clear findings and recommendations from data and interviews.
The position may include up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with ISO 22317, ISO 22361, NIST SP 800-34, NFPA 1600, and ASIS Business Continuity and Crisis Management Standards.
Experience conducting business impact analyses and developing business continuity plans.
Previous manufacturing experience.
Working knowledge of risk assessment techniques, BIA methodology, and recovery strategy development.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent planning, organizational, and project management skills.
Proficiency with business continuity software platforms such as ServiceNow BCM and emergency notification systems such as Horizon or Everbridge.
Knowledge of IT infrastructure, application recovery, and data protection principles sufficient to partner effectively with IT disaster recovery teams.

Responsibilities

Operationalize Solventum’s Business Resilience governance framework and maintain its operating model, charter, policies, procedures, methodologies, standards, and annual program plan.
Identify and implement appropriate AI and automation opportunities to improve business resilience capabilities and program effectiveness.
Lead the Business Continuity Management system and associated program data.
Coordinate alignment across Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, Cybersecurity Incident Response, Manufacturing and Operational Technology resilience, Supply Chain resilience, Enterprise Risk Management, and related programs.
Translate audit, regulatory, and management findings into structured remediation plans with owners, milestones, dependencies, evidence requirements, and target outcomes; monitor progress, challenge delays, escalate risks, and report status.
Design and facilitate discussion-based and operational exercises to test governance, plans, recovery strategies, communications, dependencies, and decision-making.
Establish exception management for business areas that cannot meet BCM standards or documented recovery requirements.
Maintain evidence of program implementation, control operation, management oversight, and remediation closure.
Establish after-action processes with observations, root causes, accountable corrective actions, target dates, validation evidence, and closure approval; analyze exercise and incident results for recurring weaknesses.
Develop executive dashboards and program reports covering BIA coverage, plan quality, exercises, recovery capability gaps, overdue actions, exceptions, remediation performance, trends, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Create guidance, templates, toolkits, and communications to help business teams meet BCM requirements consistently.
Represent the BCM program in governance forums, audits, assessments, major projects, and relevant risk discussions.
Own and improve the enterprise BIA and continuity-risk assessment methodology; lead the enterprise BIA cycle and ensure appropriate coverage of critical services, processes, products, locations, and supporting operations.
Establish consistent criteria for assessing operational, customer, patient, financial, regulatory, legal, reputational, and strategic impacts.
Guide business leaders and process owners in setting recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, impact tolerances, minimum resource requirements, and recovery priorities.
Maintain an enterprise inventory of dependencies, including people, technology, data, facilities, suppliers, operational technology, equipment, utilities, logistics, and interdependent processes.
Analyze BIA results for risk concentrations, single points of failure, conflicting recovery requirements, and systemic dependencies.
Align business-defined recovery requirements with Technology Resilience application tiering, IT contingency planning, recovery strategies, and testing priorities; escalate gaps between required outcomes and demonstrated capabilities.
Support and improve the Crisis Management Framework, including escalation criteria, team structures, roles, decision rights, communication protocols, activation procedures, and playbooks.
Ensure the Crisis Management Framework is integrated with Business Resilience and aligned with continuity and technology recovery arrangements.
Provide specialist advice during crisis activations and significant disruptions.
Support or coordinate situation reporting, action tracking, decision logging, stakeholder briefings, response documentation, and transition-to-recovery activities.
Support post-incident reviews and translate lessons learned into sustainable corrective actions.
Comply with corporate policies, procedures, and security standards while performing assigned duties.