Key ResponsibilitiesWe are seeking an experienced Resiliency professional with deep AI knowledge and practical hands-on experience to lead our North America Region via a Center of Excellence you will help deliver. The Regional Resiliency Lead is responsible for leading the strategy execution and continuous improvement of the Regions company's Resilience through leveraging the COE, Global Security teams, and matrixed business partners. This role ensures the Region is prepared to respond and recover from disruptive events while maintaining critical business operations.
A core expectation of this role is the ability to apply AI tools and techniques in practical, day-to-day Resiliency work from AI-assisted risk assessments and predictive scenario planning to automated plan maintenance and intelligent alerting. The position partners closely with Global Security, GSOC, Crisis Management, IT, Engineering, Legal, Facilities, HR, Risk Management, and executive leadership to design and maintain scalable, risk-based continuity solutions across North America sites and business units. Beyond individual use, this leader will assist in the development and execution of the strategy to scale AI across the Regional Resiliency functions embedding AI-driven capabilities into workflows, exercises, and reporting so that the entire program becomes faster, smarter, and more resilient over time.
Applied Materials is growing at a pace that is driving significant increases in headcount and facilities and growing our line of customer offerings. As a result, we expect over the next five years to have the most exciting and active R&D and manufacturing infrastructure pipeline in our history. This position plays a critical role in safeguarding the company's people, operations, and brand, delivering enterprise-level impact within the Americas region. To keep pace with this growth, the Resiliency function must scale rapidly across an increasingly complex North America footprint and AI is central to that strategy. The Regional Resiliency Lead directly enables business resilience by harnessing AI-driven insights, predictive risk intelligence, and automation to build a program that scales with the business, and ensures leadership has confidence in the company's ability to withstand and recover from disruption.
This position reports to the Global Head of Business Resiliency and is based in Santa Clara, CA. The role requires travel up to 25%.
Key Responsibilities & Strategic Leadership
- Lead and enhance Business Continuity and Crisis Management programs across North America in alignment with ISO 22301, NIST, FFIEC, and operational resilience best practices.
- Support the execution of enterprise continuity and crisis management strategies, governance, policies, standards, and program initiatives across the region.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to regional leadership on business continuity risk, crisis preparedness, operational resilience, and recovery readiness.
- Lead North America Business Continuity and Crisis Management activities within a highly matrixed environment, promoting a culture of resilience and accountability.
- Conduct and coordinate Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) to identify critical business functions, dependencies, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
- Partner with Risk, Cybersecurity, Technology, Physical Security, Facilities, Procurement, and business leaders to assess operational and third-party risks impacting regional operations.
- Develop, maintain, and validate business continuity, crisis management, and recovery plans across North America corporate, product, and site operations.
- Ensure alignment of regional continuity and crisis management activities with Disaster Recovery, Incident Response, Emergency Management, and Operational Resilience programs.
- Provide regional leadership and coordination during crisis events and operational disruptions, supporting effective response, escalation management, communications, and recovery activities.
- Lead tabletop exercises, simulations, and recovery testing to validate readiness and improve response effectiveness across regional teams.
- Drive continuous improvement through after-action reviews, corrective action management, program assessments, and lessons learned from exercises and real-world events.
- Develop and maintain regional KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to measure resilience, recovery performance, and program maturity.
- Leverage analytics, automation, and risk intelligence tools to improve program reporting, monitoring, and operational response capabilities.
- Deliver continuity and crisis management training and awareness programs for regional leaders, recovery coordinators, and business teams.
- Support third-party resilience assessments and help ensure continuity requirements are incorporated into vendor management processes and contractual expectations.
- Influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across North America without direct authority while fostering a culture of preparedness and continuous improvement.
Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Education
The ideal candidate will have the following: - 10+ Years experience leading Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Operational Resilience programs within large, complex, and matrixed organizations.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 22301, NIST, FFIEC, and business continuity and risk management best practices.
- Proven ability to support senior leaders during operational, cyber, physical, and reputational disruption events.
- Experience developing and implementing resilience strategies that integrate business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery, and operational risk.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional regional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong experience conducting Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), risk assessments, dependency mapping, and recovery strategy planning.
- Knowledge of crisis response coordination, incident management processes, escalation procedures, and executive communications.
- Experience developing governance processes, KPIs/KRIs, dashboards, and reporting to support program effectiveness and operational readiness.
- Experience facilitating tabletop exercises, simulations, and recovery testing activities to validate preparedness and response capabilities.
- Strong collaboration and partnership skills across Cybersecurity, Technology, Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, Facilities, Supply Chain, and business operations teams.
- Experience utilizing analytics, automation, and emerging technologies to improve resilience monitoring, reporting, and operational efficiency.
- Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to perform effectively during high-pressure situations.
- Experience supporting third-party resilience, supplier continuity risk management, and operational recovery efforts.
- Commitment to fostering a culture of resilience, preparedness, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Other Suitability Factors
To succeed in this role requires a
capacity for complexity and
temperament that includes:
- Demonstrates a balanced leadership style with confidence, professionalism, and a collaborative approach.
- Brings positive energy, accountability, and a strong focus on delivering business results and operational resilience.
- Process-oriented with the ability to build strong working relationships across teams and business functions.
- Effective communicator who can engage and collaborate with employees, leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
- Self-motivated and committed to continuous improvement, operational effectiveness, and program success.
- Ability to lead, mentor, and support Business Continuity and Crisis Management teams within direct and matrixed environments.
- Demonstrates good judgment, situational awareness, and effective decision-making during complex or high-pressure situations.
- Understanding of key business operations, critical processes, operational dependencies, and business priorities.
- Ability to translate operational and technical risks into business impacts, recovery priorities, and practical continuity solutions.
- Supports alignment of Business Continuity and Crisis Management activities with regional business objectives and operational goals.
Additional InformationTime Type:Full time
Employee Type:Assignee / Regular
Travel:Yes, 25% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:Yes
The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.
For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.
