Senior/Principal Technology Resilience Consultant

The role

Beyond Blue is a multi-award winning, growing boutique consultancy focused on assisting clients with their most complex cyber and resilience problems. The team engages at all levels but specialises in assisting and advising boards and senior management, with first-hand experience dealing with the unique challenges cyber and resilience poses for leadership. We recognise that our clients’ questions and problems are typically distinct and unique, therefore we draw upon the team’s extensive experience of advising and working at the highest levels of government, financial institutions, and critical national infrastructure to deliver innovative, tailored approaches that enable our clients to effectively manage the dynamic landscape they operate in.

Our clients

At Beyond Blue we work with a wide range of clients both within the UK and globally. Through the introduction of the UK and Europe’s operational and cyber resilience regulation we have a strong presence in projects across the financial services sector but also support others such as government, telecoms, retail and distribution, and offering knowledge and expertise to the non-profit organisations and charities.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing multiple projects for multiple clients across sectors independently, consulting with leadership as necessary.
• Presenting reports and findings to senior executives in consultation with leadership, supporting and enabling clients to make informed decisions for their business.
• Managing commercial aspects of engagements to achieve desired levels of quality and profitability.
• Maintaining an established external network and maintain in-depth knowledge of the industry, market trends, competitor activity, relevant products, and services.

Business & Service Development

• Developing a portfolio of clients by building and maintaining strategic relationships with senior stakeholders of existing or new clients and maintaining external networks, including peers in other organisations and social contacts.
• Leading development of innovative and creative client proposals, presentations, and pitches.
• Anticipating current and future needs of Beyond Blue and clients, based on extensive research and deep understanding of the client business and industry.
• Proposing new topics for external Insights and help to develop Beyond Blue branded thought leadership.
• Assisting the Operations team with client facing activities including marketing and event management.
• Identifying possible opportunities with new and existing clients and pursuing these with minimal oversight from leadership.
• Specialising in, contributing and where applicable, leading a service line.
• Leading the development of case studies, proposals, deliverables, and methodologies.
• Creating innovative and repeatable solutions and services which strengthen business performance and separate Beyond Blue from the competition.

Training, Quality & Development

• Maintaining in-depth knowledge in particular areas and sectors to stay relevant for our clients.
• It is important to stay abreast of the latest trends, innovations, industry standards, thought leadership and best practice.
• Working on continuing professional development (CPD) to maintain professional status and accreditation (where applicable).
• Accountability for the quality and timeliness of internal and external projects and deliverables, ensuring these meet the quality and expectations of leadership and/or the client.
• Leading reviews of completed deliverables or projects to identify personal and team development points, lessons learned and providing feedback to enhance future quality.
• Sharing knowledge within the team and leading the development of knowledge resources.
• Maintaining in-depth industry knowledge, credible understanding of economic, political and market trends as well as knowledge of competitor’s core products and services.
• Maintaining an established personal brand and voice in the industry.
• Actively identify opportunities to allocate junior team members responsibilities that will help them to learn new skills that align with their goals.
• Empowering team members to develop, actively supporting the team’s achievement of their goals to build positive team dynamics and trust.

Internal

• Participating in our Performance Management processes as both an appraisee and as a Performance Coach.
• Taking action to ensure that wellbeing matters are appropriately handled and escalated appropriately.
• Meeting all administrative and operational deadlines to aid the running of the business including client invoicing and completion of timesheets.
• Acting and speaking up if observing or made aware of conduct that is inconsistent with Beyond Blue’s values or strategy.

The candidate

Required skills, knowledge & experience

• You have extensive experience in resilience roles, relevant professional qualifications and can demonstrate how this experience aligns to a consulting environment.
• You have experience in delivering complex technical change into a range of organisations.
• You have a good understanding of global resilience regulation and complementary regulation for Cyber, Privacy, Third Party Assurance and Recovery and Resolution and extensive experience in delivering resilience regulatory compliance projects and programmes within the Financial Services Industry.
• You have experience in managing and motivating small teams.
• You can communicate complex ideas effectively to all levels both verbally and in written form.
• You have extensive experience in stakeholder management.
• You enjoy problem solving and proactively using your initiative to develop innovative approaches to complex issues.
• You pride yourself on your critical eye, attention to detail, and organisation.
• You are commercially aware and can reflect this in your approach to organisation’s resilience issues.
• You have a great work ethic which allows you to self-motivate to effectively work independently but also be a strong team player.
• You have a personal interest in resilience and technology outside of your role and actively keep up to date with the latest regulatory and technology developments.
• You enjoy working closely with clients and helping them understand how resilience is key to the success of their business.
• You have a good level of personal resilience and embrace and adapt well to ever-changing circumstances.
• You are intermediate or above in the use of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Desired skills, knowledge & experience

• You have knowledge and experience of implementing Cyber, Privacy and Third-Party industry standards and frameworks including those produced by NIST, MITRE, ISF and ISO, as well as regulatory compliance programmes including GDPR and NIS.
• You have consulting experience.
• You have worked across a broad range of industries including financial services, technology, government, energy, and manufacturing.
• You have delivered work in complementary subject matter areas including Cyber, Governance, Risk & Controls, Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Exercising, Disaster Recovery, Strategy including transformation programmes and TOMs, Cloud Security, Executive Training, Training & Awareness.
• You have a Masters or Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in Business Resilience related subjects.

Benefits

• Salary: competitive – available on request
• Working Environment: Whilst the role is full-time, we do not measure success based on how long the team spend at their desk and want to offer a flexible environment where possible. The role will be predominately working from home, but you will be expected to travel nationally and internationally to fulfil client work. The team is happy to discuss this in more detail during the recruitment process.
• Bonus: Access to an annual performance related scheme.
• Share Scheme: Participate in the Beyond Blue employee share scheme.
• Private Healthcare: qualify for insurance coverage through our corporate membership.
• Training and Qualifications: Access to formal training and qualifications to help develop and progress your career, in line with the firm’s requirements.
• Annual leave: 25 days annual leave + 8 UK bank holidays (rising to 33 days + 8 UK bank holidays after 5 years’ service).

Applicants must also send a cover letter or a short video, voice note or slides to recruitment@beyondblue.tech detailing why you would like to join Beyond Blue and why you think you would be a good fit for the role.