Director

Nextpower • Nashville, TN

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Nextpower is seeking a Director, Enterprise Resilience & Crisis Management, to build and lead the company's enterprise capability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant business disruptions. This is an operational leadership role, not a compliance, bureaucratic, or plan administration position. It will support Nextpower’s next phase of growth by strengthening risk mitigation and crisis management for supply chain and manufacturing disruptions, cyber incidents, natural disasters, geopolitical events, product issues, and other events that could affect employees, customers, or business performance. This role will establish the enterprise framework for resilience and crisis management, while ensuring that accountability remains where it belongs: business and functional leaders own the resilience of their operations; the Director establishes the standards, governance, coordination and enterprise visibility that enable the company to act effectively as one organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise resilience, business continuity, crisis management, operational risk, emergency management, or related disciplines, including meaningful experience leading complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience in manufacturing, energy, industrial technology, critical infrastructure or global supply chains.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior executives during significant business disruptions or crisis simulations
• Possess calm judgment and influencing skills required in tough situations.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline required, advanced degree preferred.
• Professional credentials such as CBCP/MBCP, CBCI/MBCI, ISO 22301 certification, or comparable recognized resilience credentials are strongly preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Professional credentials such as CBCP/MBCP, CBCI/MBCI, ISO 22301 certification, or comparable recognized resilience credentials are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build Enterprise Resilience: Establish Nextpower's enterprise resilience and business continuity framework, including governance, standards, critical process assessment, recovery expectations, and executive reporting.
• Work with functions and business leaders to identify the company's most important operational dependencies, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and ensure proper mitigation and contingency strategies are in place.
• Create a forward-looking view of resilience by identifying and monitoring leading indicators of potential disruption across manufacturing, supply chain, technology, people, facilities, and external events.
• Embed resilience considerations into major business changes, new capabilities, and acquisitions.
• Establish Crisis Management Capability: Develop and maintain Nextpower’s enterprise crisis management framework, including crisis classification, escalation protocols, decision rights, executive engagement, and cross-functional coordination.
• During a significant event, serve as the enterprise crisis management process leader: establishing a common operating picture, convening the appropriate leaders, coordinating actions and dependencies, and ensuring prompt escalation and decision-making.
• Drive Preparedness and Continuous Improvement: Establish an enterprise program of business impact assessments, continuity planning, executive exercises, and crisis simulations focused on Nextpower's most consequential risks.
• Ensure that exercises and real incidents result in clear lessons learned, accountable corrective actions and measurable improvements in organizational readiness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director