Project Manager - Security

Location: On site 5 days a week in Orange, CT or Boston, MA.

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:

• $128,320 to $160,400 in Orange, CT
• $134,080 to $167,600 in Boston, MA

What We Offer:

• Competitive benefits and growth opportunities

• Generous performance‑based bonuses

• 12% 401(k) match

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

• Tuition reimbursement

• Professional development and clear career advancement pathways

For more information please visit: Benefits - Avangrid

Job Summary

The Program Manager (PM), Business Continuity & Resilience will oversee two emerging programs within the Resilience vertical to reduce risks across the organization. The opportunity to grow a new program (resilience) will include readiness, preparedness and exercises. Additionally, the PM will work with business units across the company to develop, maintain, and test comprehensive business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery plans in support of the BC program. The PM will work at the strategic direction of the Manager and Senior Director of Resilience to mature the overall resilience program.

Key Responsibilities

Business Continuity

• Lead the development, maintenance, or implementation of resiliency solutions, including business continuity plans, business impact analysis, and documentation of procedures.
• Serve as the business continuity liaison (BCL) for Corporate Security and Resilience, in charge of updating and maintaining the BIA and BCP yearly for the entire department.
• Lead the BCL program across the company (over 85+ members) to include monthly calls, producing timely and relevant documents and smaller meetings focused on specific issues.
• Plan, facilitate, coordinate, observe, and de-brief annual corporate mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies.
• Partner with business functions to identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of interruptions and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• Prepare reports summarizing results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations of the BC program.
• Create and maintain metrics, risk matrices, and assist with communication to various stakeholders.
• Serve as backup incident manager to the Resilience Manager.
• Drive commitment, ownership, accountability, and results for BC planning with business stakeholders.

Resilience

• Develop and maintain process for establishing critical processes, vendors, locations, etc across the company.
• Contribute to establish and maintain program processes and practices which effectively ensure that the business resilience program remains current and incorporates/aligns with industry standards and practices as appropriate.
• Identifies opportunities for strategic improvements that reduce the likelihood of business interruptions
• Coordinate with Iberdrola to ensure Avangrid both the Iberdrola and Avangrid “Operational Resilience” newly approved policies align.
• Lead the support all resilience related audits (both internal and external), rate cases, and regulatory findings that need to be addressed in support of the program.
• Maintain NERC CIP compliance throughout the program.
• Foster a resilience culture through planning, education, training, and analytics.
• Participate in support of various other initiatives and ad-hoc projects to enhance business continuity and resilience.
• Assist the exercise program and incident response as part of overall resilience efforts.
• Others tasks and duties as assigned by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Previous experience with Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery Planning techniques.
• Previous experience developing or maintaining a NERC CIP compliant program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Emergency Management and/or training/exercise experience preferred.
• Proven project and process management experience.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and its relation to key enterprise assets, applications, and business services.
• Effective written and verbal communication, including strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Excels under pressure, able to make quick decisions, and escalates as appropriate.
• Well organized with an ability to independently manage deliverables and meet deadlines.
• Ability to shift priority projects quickly and seamlessly based on needs of CSRO.
• Business Continuity/Emergency Management/Project Management certification a plus.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or External)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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