Senior Lead, Data Resilence Specialist

About Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies is the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. We are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skincare, fragrance, and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and imagination — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.

Who We Are

Do you want to be part of the team catalyzing digital innovation, harnessing the power of data, and transforming the fabric of security across the world’s most prestigious beauty, skincare, and luxury fragrance brands? Then join the information security and technology team, Enterprise Cybersecurity & Risk (ECR) at Estée Lauder Companies (ELC). ECR’s security team fuels cyber defense, technology excellence, risk and compliance, and global resilience. We stay at the forefront of cyber threats to deliver fit-for-purpose tools, technologies, and processes that protect ELC’s business operations and empower secure strategic growth. If you thrive in change-rich entrepreneurial environments, then this is the team for you. From our fast-paced delivery plans to our global team expansion, this is an exciting time to join us!

The Data Protection team leads the strategic protection of our company's data by developing and implementing robust protection frameworks to classify and secure sensitive and high-value information. We ensure our company's data is resilient by leading initiatives to fortify data assets, fostering a resilient infrastructure capable of withstanding disruptions, and ensuring the integrity and availability of critical information.

As a member of the Data Protection team, you will lead ELC's enterprise disaster recovery program, including developing policies and managing processes to ensure disaster recovery planning is conducted and exercised for all critical systems.You will ensure IT teams conduct thorough disaster recovery planning and can restore systems and recover data following any unplanned disruption.You will work across multiple teams to prepare ELC for disasters of all types and conduct exercises to assess and enhance readiness.

What You’ll Do

You will be responsible for :

• Developing, implementing, maintaining, governing, and facilitating the enterprise's disaster recovery program to ensure systems and data can be recovered following all types of business disruptions (natural, technical, accidental, workforce, supplier, and geopolitical).
• Coordinating with business continuity planning teams to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery plans are integrated and program policies are aligned.
• Developing, implementing, and updating disaster recovery plans, communication protocols, and crisis management tools.
• Assessing and improving the disaster recovery program by evaluating governance models, risks to services, and disaster recovery processes and protocols.
• Developing and executing disaster recovery exercises to test readiness and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Creating and maintaining a secure repository for disaster recovery plans, reference materials, and tools to provide decision-makers with information needed for crisis response and recovery.
• Developing reporting schedules, communications, formal reports, and informal updates to leadership regarding the status of enterprise disaster recovery planning.
• Assessing and reporting on the company's ability to monitor and manage threats and risks related to system availability, crisis response, recovery, and data restoration.
• Assisting with the management of significant events, including guiding the operational aspects of crisis management, the mobilization of teams needed to restore services, minimizing business impact, and identifying opportunities to improve response capabilities and processes.
• Conducting business impact analyses to assess recovery requirements and develop strategies to mitigate gaps. This includes guiding the business in developing and documenting risks and remediation plans.
• Facilitating reviews following crisis events and disaster recovery exercises to assess response efforts, identify lessons learned, enhance response capabilities and processes, and report findings and recommendations.
• Working across functions and business units to review key business strategies and ensure alignment with disaster recovery planning related to critical business processes, systems, and data.
• Coordinating program audits related to disaster recovery planning.
• Advising business units and IT teams on risk assessments, business impact analyses, and disaster recovery planning strategies.
• Providing guidance on disaster recovery plans and requirements for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, new technologies and systems, and changes in data storage.
• Developing and delivering training and awareness related to disaster recovery planning.
• Providing leadership to the disaster recovery team and ensuring individual team members are aligned with organizational strategies and business goals.
• Developing, coaching, and mentoring team members.
• Building support from key business stakeholders to advance the goals of the disaster recovery program.
• Working with leadership on long-term strategies related to disaster recovery planning, including allocating resources and budgeting.
• Developing and managing productive working relationships with vendors, business partners, and service providers to ensure they meet the needs of the organization.
• Partnering with IT teams to ensure disaster recovery policies and procedures are effectively implemented.

Qualifications

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