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About the role
Continuity planning
A Business Continuity Manager keeps critical operations running when something breaks, slows down, or stops. In freelance projects, the work often starts with a business impact analysis, a review of critical processes, and a continuity plan that fits real operations.
- Build or refresh business continuity plans
- Map critical services, dependencies, and recovery priorities
- Define escalation paths, roles, and communication steps
- Align continuity work with risk, IT, and operations
What they deliver
Strong BCM managers do more than write documents. They turn continuity goals into practical measures, test them, and make sure teams can use them under pressure. That is why companies often bring in an interim BCM manager, continuity consultant, or crisis management lead when internal ownership is thin.
- Business impact analysis and recovery requirements
- Continuity strategies for people, sites, IT, and suppliers
- Exercise plans, tabletop scenarios, and test reports
- Remediation plans after gaps or failed exercises
Key skills
The best professionals combine structure with calm judgment. They understand how to ask the right questions, work across departments, and keep plans aligned with operations, security, and compliance.
- Strong knowledge of BCM methods and governance
- Clear writing for policies, plans, and executive summaries
- Stakeholder management across business and IT
- Experience with crisis coordination and incident response
Tools and standards
Many projects involve ISO 22301, risk registers, continuity templates, and GRC or incident-management tools. In Germany, clients often expect clean documentation, practical workshop facilitation, and collaboration with local leadership, legal, and operations teams.
- ISO 22301-aligned continuity frameworks
- Risk and impact assessments
- Crisis communication and escalation matrices
- Test tracking, action logs, and audit-ready records
When to hire freelance
Freelance support makes sense when a company needs expertise for a defined phase, a gap filler during leave or change, or help before an audit, acquisition, relocation, or major system change. Business continuity managers are also brought in after an incident to review weaknesses and tighten recovery readiness.
- Temporary leadership for a BCM program
- Support for audits, exercises, or certification work
- Help after an outage, disruption, or near miss
- Fast setup for a new site, market, or operating model
What good looks like
A strong Business Continuity Manager is practical, structured, and firm on priorities. They do not just produce a plan; they create one that managers understand, test, and can actually use. The best candidates know when to challenge assumptions and when to simplify.
- Plans that match real operational risk
- Exercises that reveal gaps, not just tick boxes
- Clear ownership for each action item
- Simple documentation that teams can maintain
Meet FRATCH Business Continuity Managers
Peter Dittkuhn
Project Coordination, Consulting, IT Security, ISMS, BCM, NIS2, KVP
Last position:
Security Consultant at Public Institution of the City Administration
- Requirements management, process planning, interface role, ISMS implementation and documentation
- Implementation and establishment of an ISMS according to ISO 27001 as well as setup of emergency management / ITSCM
- Coordination of conditions with the authority-affiliated IT service provider
- Consideration of KRITIS relevance in the scope and implementation of a B3S
- Development of guidelines for document control and the continuous improvement process (KVP)
- Creation of relevant project documents
- Analysis of existing processes and development of guidelines
- Collection of requirements for ISMS and ITSCM and coordination with the IT service provider including definition of interfaces
- Analysis of communication processes and escalation paths
- Review of documents for risk management, ISMS, emergency preparedness and emergency response
- Development of a complete rebuild of all documentation and creation of new relevant documents
- Development of necessary rules, policies and concepts
- Interface function between customer and service provider to ensure document quality
- Coordination of protection needs with departments, especially regarding KRITIS relevance, and planning resulting measures
- Development of preventive measures to minimize data center outages for various scenarios such as pandemics or ransomware attacks
- Defining the test strategy for IT emergency exercises
- Initiation of necessary training measures for raising awareness in departments
- External Information Security Officer (ISB)
- Introduction of document control
Dmitrii Shatov
IT Regulatory Compliance & GRC (BCM, IT Risk, DORA, ISO 22301, Outsourcing)
Last position:
IT Risk & Compliance | DORA | IT Regulatory & Operational Resilience Senior Consultant at Jefferies GmbH
Leading Jefferies’ DORA-driven operational resilience programme by strengthening ICT risk governance, control design, and regulatory readiness across key technology and outsourcing domains. Partnering with senior stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into pragmatic governance, reporting, and assurance processes suitable for a global investment banking environment.
- Developed the Enterprise Register of Information (DORA Art. 28.3) to align with regulatory requirements.
- Defined and embedded ICT Risk Appetite and tolerance levels aligned to the Global Operational Risk Framework, strengthening decision-making and risk acceptance governance.
- Drove audit readiness by reviewing and re-drafting 50+ IT & Information Security policies, improving clarity, ownership, and control alignment.
- Oversaw the Operational Resilience Testing Programme (including penetration testing) and tracked remediation to closure, strengthening control assurance and reducing open findings.
- Aligned 10+ intra-group agreements with DORA regulatory standards.
- Enhanced executive-level decision-making with an enterprise ICT Risk Dashboard featuring KPIs/KRIs.
Arndt Schürg
Information Security Officer according to TISAX
Last position:
Information Security Officer according to TISAX at Automotive Supplier
Lucas Löcken
Consultant in Information Security, Data Protection and Business Continuity Management
Last position:
Consultant in Information Security, Data Protection and Business Continuity Management
Consulting and support in gathering information security requirements (IT-SIG 2.0, KRITIS, TISAX, industry standards, ISO 27001, A-960/1)
Acting as data protection officer and auditor as well as information security auditor
Conducting employee training
Updating risk analyses with risk treatment
Designing information security concepts based on BSI IT Baseline Protection, KRITIS, ISO 27001, A-960/1 and TISAX
Identifying information security requirements for IT systems (WAN, LAN, clouds) and overseeing implementation
Administering the ISMS using Verinice and SAVe
Integrating security concepts into existing management systems according to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
Process management and modeling according to ITIL
Management consulting for integrating an ISMS into integrated management systems
Advising on data protection (GDPR, BDSG)
Planning and conducting data protection audits
Designing risk management processes and methodologies according to ISO 27005, ISO 31000 and BSI 200-3
Developing and setting up training programs for employees
Robert Vattig
Freelance Consultant Information Security and Business Continuity
Last position:
Freelance Consultant Information Security and Business Continuity at Freelance Business Consulting
- Provide consulting services nationwide in both private and public sectors
- Advise on information security management systems, IT Baseline Protection, KRITIS compliance, TISAX, business continuity and crisis management
- Support introduction of policies, risk management methods, asset registers and supplier management
- Conduct internal audits, training workshops and support audit preparations
Yasin Karabacak
Entrepreneur and Business Continuity Manager
Last position:
Entrepreneur and Business Continuity Manager at Infimedix GmbH
- Medical consumables and devices sales
- Investor in Gesundheitszentrum Hartmann (Physical Therapy Center)
- Investor in Infinity Boxx (24/7 Digital Smart Store)
- Head of business continuity management (BCM) including emergency preparedness manuals, risk and business impact analysis, continuity strategies
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Business Continuity Managers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
4 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Audit
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Certifications per freelancer
12
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Business Continuity Manager helps a company prepare for disruption and recover critical work quickly. Typical assignments include business impact analysis, continuity planning, crisis roles, recovery testing, and follow-up on gaps found in exercises or incidents. The best freelancers turn policy into something teams can actually use.
Freelance support makes sense when the internal team lacks time, needs specialist BCM expertise, or has a temporary gap. It is also useful before audits, major change programs, or after an outage when plans need a fast review. A contractor can focus on the BCM work without long internal ramp-up.
A strong business continuity manager needs structure, clear writing, and solid stakeholder management. They should understand risk, incident response, recovery planning, and how to run exercises that expose weak points. Experience with executive communication matters as much as process knowledge.
Not exactly. A BCM manager focuses on keeping critical operations running and recovering them after disruption, while a crisis manager usually handles the live response and communication during an event. A risk manager looks more broadly at threats and controls, though the roles often work closely together.
A good engagement usually includes a business impact analysis, continuity strategy, recovery priorities, and updated plans or playbooks. Many companies also ask for tabletop exercises, test reports, and a remediation list after the review. Deliverables should be clear enough for internal teams to own after the project ends.
Yes, much of the work can be done remotely, especially document review, interviews, and planning workshops. On-site time helps when the freelancer needs to observe operations, test site-specific recovery steps, or meet local leadership in person. In Germany, hybrid collaboration is common for larger or more complex environments.
Look for concrete examples of continuity plans that were implemented, tested, and improved, not just drafted. A strong business continuity consultant can explain how they handled stakeholder pushback, validated recovery assumptions, and turned findings into action. Good candidates ask sharp questions about critical processes, dependencies, and decision rights.
They should confirm the scope, the critical processes in focus, and who owns decisions when priorities conflict. It also helps to understand whether the work is about building a new program, fixing an existing one, or preparing for an audit. For projects in Germany, they should ask early about language needs, local contacts, and how much on-site presence is expected.
The average hourly rate for Business Continuity Managers in Germany is 124 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 990 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Business Continuity Managers in Germany, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as Business Continuity Managers in Germany have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Business Continuity Managers in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and Russian (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Business Continuity Managers in Germany are Information Technology (83%), Professional Services (50%), and Automotive (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Business Continuity Managers in Germany are Information Technology (83%), Project Management (83%), and Quality Assurance (83%).
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