SmartSuite for the Recovery Plan Owner
A Recovery Plan Owner owns a business unit's continuity or recovery plan and is accountable for team readiness and execution. They manage recovery tasks, map upstream and downstream dependencies for critical processes and validate readiness metrics after each test.
What you own
- Own and maintain the business unit's continuity or recovery plan
- Map dependencies for each critical process
- Assign recovery tasks and verify updates from participants
- Lead the unit's participation in exercises
- Validate readiness metrics and raise improvement actions
- Activate and execute the plan during a disruption
Where the role sits
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Reports to
Direct reports
Works closely with
GRC processes
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Owns
accountable for the process
Touches
contributes or approves
Depends on
consumes its output
How SmartSuite helps, suite by suite
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How they use SmartSuite
Task Assignment
Manages recovery tasks and verifies updates from business unit participants.
Dependency Tracking
Maps upstream and downstream dependencies for each critical process.
Plan Validation
Reviews readiness metrics and identifies improvement opportunities.
Suites that serve this role
Products this role uses most
How SmartSuite supports this role
Operational resilience. Gives plan owners clear responsibilities, automated reminders and real-time readiness metrics, with dependencies mapped for each critical process.
Issues and actions. Tracks recovery tasks and improvement actions with verification from participants.
Reporting. Shows the unit's readiness scores, exercise results and recovery timelines.
Industry reference
ISO 22301:2019 requires each documented plan to have a defined owner responsible for its maintenance, activation and the team that executes it; the BCI Good Practice Guidelines describe the owner's role in BIAs and exercises. The IIA's Three Lines Model places this accountability in the first line.
Regulators check that plans are owned and current. FFIEC examiners and UK operational resilience rules expect named accountability for important services; CMS requires hospital department plans to be exercised; FEMA continuity guidance assigns plan ownership to programme managers; SOC 2 auditors look for approved, tested plans.
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