Description

About Databarracks

Since 2004, Databarracks has been the UK's leading provider of integrated business and technology resilience services. We're the only managed services firm that delivers comprehensive resilience solutions from C-suite strategy to technology implementation. Our strong team serves enterprise and SME clients across regulated industries, helping them prepare for the worst, respond to disasters, and recover successfully.

Overview

As a consultant within our Business Resilience team, you will participate in and supervise client engagement teams and other related activities. Engagements focus on the advisory services in development, implementation or assessment of the client’s resilience, crisis management and business continuity capability, strategies and solutions; including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of respective procedures. This also includes plan and conduct exercises to test the client’s adequacy of existing plans and strategies. You should be comfortable planning and organising scenario exercises involving a range of root causes, from reputational to cyber.

Responsibilities

• Work with nominated client business areas to develop and maintain necessary resilience programmes that address business continuity, recovery and emergency response management.
• Work with client resilience teams to develop effective working relationships and documented plans
• Liaise with key client teams to identify gaps, set recovery time objectives and determine business needs/expectations
• Develop client Business Resilience strategies, plans and challenge business leads on identification of critical functions and needs
• Design and outline Resilience goals, objectives and scope for business plans and Crisis Management Support and assist in the development of BCP planning and goals
• Support client top management in aligning all Business Resilience planning, initiatives and goals with organisational goals and Infrastructure capabilities
• Identify and make recommendations for solutions to obstacles and business challenges
• Develop and execute maintenance and testing programs for all Resilience plans
• Design and implement tests and exercises of client Resilience plans and response processes
• Provide regular feedback and reporting to clients' top management on the critical components and readiness of the business plans and supporting processes and infrastructure.

In addition, be prepared to:

• Facilitate and support the execution of client plans at the time of a BC invocation
• Support client major incident management team with critical components of the plan in order that the clients can make decisions in the event of an incident

Note the above is not on an on-call basis, rather best effort to support our clients at time of disaster.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident team player that collaborates with people from various teams while looking to develop your career in a dynamic organization.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

The role is a entry-mid level role and we would expect our consultants to be able to demonstrate some of the following skills:

• Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI)
• 3 years + managing business continuity within a multi-site organization
• In-depth knowledge of Business Continuity Systems and Processes
• Experience of planning and facilitating Crisis Management Exercises with senior leadership teams
• Experience of planning and running BCP exercises with operational teams
• Experience of Disaster Recovery planning and testing with technology teams
• A breadth of experience in a multi-disciplinary environment in public or private sectors, managing high profile suppliers and stakeholders
• Experience of managing multiple work streams simultaneously
• Sound leadership, delegation and management skills
• Effective planning and organisational skills
• Stakeholder management skills at a senior/board level
• Strong communication and negotiation skills to build effective working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders

Career Development

This role offers excellent progression opportunities within our established career framework:

· Next Level: Senior Consultant

· Career Path: Principal Consultant → Managing Consultant → Director level

· Professional Support: Annual training budget, professional body memberships, mentoring programme

· Industry Exposure: Access to leading clients across regulated sectors

Role Overview

Job Title: Business Resilience Consultant

Department: Business Resilience

Reports to: Resilience Director

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 + benefits

Location: Hybrid working (2-3 days/week in Battersea office)

Travel: Occasional UK-wide client visits