Business Continuity Consultant recruitment
The responsibilities of this role will broadly include the following:
- Provide proactive project-based professional BCM consulting services to the firms clients and prospects using the various systems currently in use or new ones introduced.
- Manage multiple BCM projects on a simultaneous basis.
- Support Managing Consultants where they are involved in the same projects.
- Clients will cover the full range of industry groups with numerous types of operations and include a large range of corporate and multi national organisations.
- Responsibilities are to assist clients to manage their business interruption risks through the BCM products and services already developed and new developments to enable them to meet their corporate duties and achieve their risk management objectives.
- Provide a reassuring, practical, positive approach to resolving problems, with the understanding that clients need to balance financial constraints against commercial requirements.
- Manage, analyse, report on, and monitor a variety of projects, often with restricted timescales – all in a professional and timely manner.
- React quickly and implement a variety of decisions.
- Be strong in communicating with individuals, teams and organisations, internal and external.
More Specifically, the role involves:
- Conduct research / collect available data on each prospective BCM client.
- Carry out business development meetings with prospective BCM clients.
- Prepare or review, submit and follow up new proposals for BCM projects.
- Providing project management to all BCM projects.
- Providing BCM consulting expertise to clients over the full spectrum of issues:-
- Project Initiation
- Policy
- Risk assessment
- Business impact analysis
- Business continuity strategies
- Communications including public relations and crisis communications
- Co-ordination with public authorities
Plan development and writing for:
- Emergency response
- Crisis management
- Business recovery
- Awareness and training programmes
- Maintaining plans
- Exercising / rehearsing / testing plans.
Essential Experience:
- At least 2 years’ BCM experience
- At least one year’s experience of providing fee-based professional services to external clients.
- Excellent BCM knowledge.
- IT literacy an advantage. Industry sector experience or education (e.g. food, pharma) an advantage.
- Essential Special skills and knowledge:
- Organisational skills, proactive, working to deadlines on multiple projects, excellent interpersonal skills, use of MS Office-based applications.
- Essential Qualification: Degree Level
January 8, 2012
• Tags: Business Continuity Consultant recruitment, Risk Management careers in the UK • Posted in: Financial