Blackstone - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery - Senior Vice President

About this role

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com . Follow @blackstone on  LinkedIn ,  X (Twitter) , and  Instagram .  Blackstone - Senior Vice President, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Blackstone is seeking a senior leader to support and advance the firm’s global business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience capabilities.

Position Objective The Senior Vice President of Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery is an experienced professional with extensive expertise in business continuity and disaster recovery, capable of thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. This individual will be responsible for managing and developing a comprehensive global strategic plan and program that focuses on mitigating financial, reputational, and regulatory risks through effective business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery strategies, while establishing clear objectives and performance metrics.

This role requires close partnership across Physical Security, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, Human Resources, Risk, and business leadership teams to ensure coordinated enterprise resilience, crisis management, and recovery capabilities globally.

This role will help further formalize the firm’s enterprise resilience capabilities within a highly collaborative and distributed operating environment. The successful candidate must be comfortable building and scaling programs across multiple functions and stakeholders where centralized ownership models are continuing to evolve.

Success in this role requires strong relationship-building skills, communicating the business value of resilience initiatives, and the capability to educate stakeholders across the organization on business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience concepts and responsibilities.

Job Description Blackstone seeks a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) leader to manage and operate the firm’s enterprise resilience program. This role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, and execution of BC/DR capabilities across the organization—encompassing program development and governance, training and awareness, testing and exercises, and incident and crisis response. The individual will ensure the program meets external regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, DORA) while aligning with internal risk, audit, and operational standards.

Responsibilities include designing and scaling an integrated, enterprise-wide framework covering BC/DR policies and procedures, awareness and training, incident response management, and end-to-end lifecycle execution—ensuring readiness, resilience, and rapid recovery across the firm and its portfolio. Business Continuity Management and Physical Security Management

Business Continuity Program Management • Lead Enterprise BCM Program – Build and integrate an outcome-driven, audit-ready program aligned to business priorities. • Ensure Global Regulatory Alignment – Align with U.S., Europe, Asia requirements, and internal risk/audit standards. • Embed Risk-Based Planning – Partner across business units to drive consistent, risk-informed continuity planning. • Partner across Physical Security, Technology, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, Human Resources, and business leadership to drive an integrated enterprise resilience strategy and coordinated operational response framework. • Lead program maturity efforts by establishing scalable governance, coordination, and operational resilience processes across a decentralized global environment. • Promote enterprise awareness and adoption of business continuity and disaster recovery practices by clearly articulating program value, operational impact, and risk reduction outcomes to different stakeholder groups.

Risk Identification & Business Impact • Lead Business Impact Analyses (BIA) – Identify critical functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities with quantified impact. • Define Critical Services & Operational Dependencies – Establish clear visibility into processes aligned with CSO and CIO priorities, and map third-party dependencies that drive business continuity and recovery outcomes.

Architecture & Capability Development • Design BC/DR Frameworks – Architect scalable, enterprise-wide capabilities aligned to CSO’s and operating strategy. • Standardize Policies & Playbooks – Establish enterprise standards for continuity and crisis response and recovery.

Execution, Planning & Operational Readiness • Operationalize BCM Plans – Maintain executable plans across business units and regions. • Drive Training & Adoption – Embed ownership through training, communication, and accountability. • Lead Testing & Validation – Run exercises to confirm readiness and identify gaps. • Coordinate cross-functional preparedness and recovery efforts across Physical Security, IT, Legal & Compliance, Facilities, HR, and other operational stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide readiness and response alignment. • Drive enterprise-wide awareness, training, and preparedness initiatives to improve organizational understanding of continuity and recovery expectations.

Support Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) • Support and Integrate with the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to ensure coordinated response across BC, DR, and physical security incidents. • Manage Crisis & Incident Response – Function as a key escalation point for incident coordination, response execution, and recovery management. • Serve as a central coordination leader across corporate functions during inc

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