Business Resilience Manager - Remote (Solventum)
healthcare · Minnesota, United States · remote
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Job Description:
Business Resilience Manager (Solventum)
3M Health Care is now Solventum
At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Business Resilience Manager will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Solventum’s enterprise Business Resilience program. The role will establish the governance, methodologies, standards, tools, and assurance activities necessary to strengthen organizational preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience across Solventum’s global operations.
Working within Global Security and in close partnership with business units and functions, the Manager will coordinate Business Resilience with Crisis Management, Technology Resilience, Cybersecurity Incident Response, Manufacturing and Operational Technology resilience, Supply Chain, Enterprise Risk Management, and other related disciplines. The role will help ensure that business-defined recovery requirements, technology recovery capabilities, operational dependencies, and crisis decision-making processes are aligned.
The Manager will lead enterprise Business Impact Analysis and continuity-planning cycles, establish minimum program and plan requirements, maintain an integrated view of critical business services and dependencies, oversee exercising and corrective-action management. The role will also support the delivery of Internal Audit and management remediation commitments related to business resilience.
This is a hands-on program management role requiring the ability to translate strategy and audit requirements into practical methodologies, accountable workstreams, measurable outcomes, and sustainable business practices.
Program Governance
Lead the operationalization of Solventum’s Business Resilience governance framework.
Develop and maintain the BCM operating model, program charter, policies, procedures, methodologies, standards, and annual program plan.
Identify and implement opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and automation to strengthen business resilience capabilities, including risk identification, scenario analysis, business impact analysis, crisis preparedness and response.
Serve as principal program lead for the BCM 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 other related programs.
Translate Internal Audit, regulatory, and management findings into structured remediation plans with defined owners, milestones, dependencies, evidence requirements, and target outcomes.
Monitor remediation progress, challenge delays or gaps, escalate material risks, and prepare regular status updates for program and executive governance bodies.
Design and facilitate discussion-based and operational exercises that test governance, plans, recovery strategies, communication methods, dependencies, and decision-making.
Establish an exception-management process for business areas unable to meet BCM standards or documented recovery requirements.
Maintain defensible evidence supporting program implementation, control operation, management oversight, and remediation closure.
Establish a consistent after-action process, including observations, root causes, accountable corrective actions, target dates, validation evidence, and closure approval.
Analyze exercise and incident results to identify recurring or enterprise-wide weaknesses.
Develop executive dashboards covering BIA coverage, plan quality, exercising, recovery capability gaps, overdue actions, exceptions, and remediation performance.
Prepare regular program reports that identify trends, systemic risks, decisions required, and areas requiring leadership intervention.
Create guidance, templates, toolkits, and communications that help business teams meet BCM requirements consistently.
Champion responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to improve resilience insights, accelerate decision-making, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the business resilience program.
Represent the BCM program in governance forums, audits, assessments, major projects, and relevant risk discussions.
Business Impact Analysis and Continuity Risk
Own and continuously improve the enterprise BIA and continuity-risk assessment methodology.
Lead the enterprise BIA cycle and ensure appropriate coverage of critical business 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 establishing 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 to identify concentrations of risk, single points of failure, conflicting recovery requirements, and systemic dependencies.
Facilitate alignment between business-defined recovery requirements and Technology Resilience application tiering, IT contingency planning, recovery strategies, and testing priorities.
Escalate material gaps between required recovery outcomes and demonstrated recovery capabilities.
Crisis Management and Incident Support
Support with maintaining & improving Solventum’s Crisis Management Framework, including escalation criteria, team structures, roles, decision rights, communication protocols, activation procedures, and supporting playbooks.
Ensure the Crisis Management Framework remains integrated with the wider Business Resilience program and aligned with business 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 with post-incident reviews and ensure lessons learned are translated into sustainable corrective actions.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher AND 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
OR
- High school diploma/GED and 14 years of experience in business resilience, disaster recovery, crisis management, risk management, or a related field i