IT Business Continuity Product Owner (m/f/d)Madrid

We are expanding our Global Corporate Information Security Team and looking forward to new colleagues joining our team. The IT Business Continuity Product Owner / Technology Business Resilience Product Owner is responsible to lead the design, governance, and operational oversight of technology business resilience (TBR) capabilities across all technology domains at Liebherr, including IT, OT, and technology products. This role ensures structured processes, governance frameworks, and supporting tools are in place to enable technology business continuity and disaster recovery management. In addition crisis management as result of major incidents resulting from cyberattacks, natural disasters, pandemics or systemic technology failures. This role reports to the global head of information security governance risk and compliance.

LOCATION:
Please note that the working location for this position will be in Madrid city, where we are currently setting up a new office location.

Creating passion: your responsibilities

• Service design and delivery: Define and lead the lifecycle of the TBR product and services; Translate resilience objectives into deliverable capabilities across IT, OT, and product engineering; Align services with risk, compliance, and operational expectations.
• Design and improve technology business continuity & disaster recovery (TBC&DR) management capabilities: By designing and implementing the governance needed by responsible teams to create and test TBC&DR plans. In addition, delivering the process and GRC application and overseeing through others the completion of business process criticality analysis and system security categorizations across the Liebherr group.
• Design and improve crisis management capabilities: Operate and maintain crisis management readiness at group, division, and company levels. Deliver the crisis management technologies such as emergency notification systems, data and collaboration platforms.  Deliver global training, tabletop exercises, and simulation programs through externally managed service providers across divisions, regions and companies.
• TBR service performance management: Design key risk and performance indicators, dashboards and report on the TBRC product and services relevant for management at the Liebherr group, divisions and company levels.

Contributing your strengths: your qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of working experience in medium to large organizations delivering business continuity and disaster recovery management services and crisis management
• Certifications such as CBCP, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, or equivalent are strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge of governance frameworks related to technology business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management such as ISO 22301, NIST FIPS 199, and others
• Experience building and enabling global Business Impact Assessment (BIA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) programs using GRC platforms
• Professional presence and crisis communication skills to lead response and represent resilience maturity to auditors and regulators, experience with formal notification process to external parties and regulators
• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders across IT, OT, engineering, and executive leadership in complex environments
• Ability to lead multi-stakeholder governance processes across global business units and ensure documentation is structured, endorsed, and maintained
• Experience in applying agile principles (e.g., iterative planning, continuous improvement, stakeholder collaboration) to the delivery and evolution of governance services, frameworks, or organizational processes
• Experience in owning and evolving enterprise GRC platforms to support compliance, risk, and governance services
• Strategic thinking combined with a pragmatic execution mindset, especially when aligning governance with operational realities
• Highly desirable: experience in product ownership and service delivery using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or similar agile methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, German is a plus

Our commitment to you: your benefits

At Liebherr, we believe people are at the heart of our success. As part of our international team, you’ll enjoy a secure role in a family-owned company that values innovation, collaboration, and long-term career growth:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package that recognizes your expertise
• Flexible and hybrid working model
• Creative freedom and responsibility to shape processes and solutions in our global transformation
• Continuous learning and development with tailored training and certification opportunities
• Meal vouchers
• Life and accident insurance
• Option to include a premium private health insurance package as part of the flexible remuneration
• A safe, stable, and international workplace within a trusted family business that invests in people

Please only use the online application option.
Please note that we do not accept applications via recruitment agencies for this position.

Have we awoken your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your online application. If you have any questions, please contact Karoliina Rissanen.

One Passion. Many Opportunities.