Business Resilience Consultant 

Location: Battersea (and remote working)
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Benefits: Private Medical Insurance
Reports to: Resilience Director
Hours of work: Full time
Language: English (Required)

The Company

Databarracks is an IT Resilience managed service provider based in South West London. We do more than just protect technology – we enable our customers to get on with what they do best when the worst happens. We have grown substantially winning new business and industry awards typical of companies many times our size. We did this by maintaining a small company ethos and hiring clever, motivated people who are invested in what they do and fun to be around.

We're a tight, focused team, with the internal resources to provide meaningful opportunities for progression and on-the-job training. Some of our most senior staff members started in entry-level positions and have, through a combination of personal drive and internal support, made leaps up the career ladder.

The Role

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, business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, 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. The focus of this role is the interaction and relationship between Business Continuity (BC) and IT Disaster Recovery (DR).

Key Responsibilities

• Work with nominated client business areas to develop and maintain necessary programmes that address business continuity and disaster recovery.
• 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, recovery point objectives and determine technology resilience needs.
• Develop technology strategies, solutions and plans to meet critical functions and needs.
• Design and outline goals, objectives and scope for business plans and assist in the development of BC and IT DR planning and goals.
• Support client management in aligning business continuity planning, initiatives and goals with IT DR goals and Infrastructure capabilities.
• Identify and make recommendations for IT DR solutions to meet BC-derived requirements.
• Develop and execute maintenance and testing programmes for BC and DR plans.
• Design and implement tests and exercises of client BC and DR 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

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have:

• Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI)
• 3 years + managing BC and DR within a multi-site organization
• Sound knowledge of BC and DR systems and processes
• Experience of planning and facilitating exercises with senior leadership teams
• Experience of planning and running BC exercises with operational teams
• Experience of DR planning and testing with technology teams
• Experience in a multi-disciplinary environment in public or private sectors, managing high profile suppliers and stakeholders
• Experience of managing multiple work streams simultaneously
• Experience of managing multiple work streams simultaneously
• Effective project management, planning and organisational skills
• Stakeholder management skills at a senior level
• Effective communication and negotiation skills to build effective working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders

Personal qualities

• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and priorities
• Ability to learn quickly and share knowledge
• Ability to prioritise workload to ensure that team targets are met

If you're looking to join a team who work on genuinely exciting new business projects then this is the role for you.

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