Managing Consultant - Business Resilience in Manchester

Group, you’ll be part of a team that bridges the gap between cyber operations and business continuity — ensuring our clients can respond confidently when disruption strikes. You’ll work across incident response readiness, cyber recovery planning, crisis management exercises, and resilience assessments that protect real-world business outcomes. It’s meaningful, high-impact work that blends strategy, governance, and hands-on resilience engineering.

What you’ll do

• Build cyber resilience strategies: Design and deliver tailored cyber resilience and recovery frameworks that integrate business continuity, IT disaster recovery, and incident response.
• Assess and improve readiness: Conduct cyber resilience maturity assessments and tabletop exercises; identify and prioritise gaps in recovery capabilities.
• Design recovery playbooks: Create actionable recovery and communication plans aligned with NIST, ISO 22301, and industry best practice.
• Test and validate: Lead scenario-based simulations and recovery testing to validate processes, people, and technology readiness.
• Integrate with security operations: Collaborate with SOC and IR teams to align resilience and recovery capabilities with detection, containment, and response functions.
• Engage stakeholders: Translate technical findings into clear, business-relevant recommendations; present outcomes to executives and boards.
• Advise on resilience architecture: Support the design of resilient infrastructure, backup strategies, and cloud recovery configurations.
• Mentor and contribute: Coach junior consultants and share lessons learned through internal knowledge sessions and reusable playbook templates.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience in cyber resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery consulting, ideally within complex enterprise environments.
• Practical understanding of incident response, crisis management, and cyber recovery operations.
• Familiarity with frameworks and standards such as ISO 22301, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-34, and BS 65000.
• Proven ability to engage at all levels — from technical recovery teams to C-suite executives.
• Experience running or facilitating tabletop exercises, war-gaming sessions, or simulation testing.
• Knowledge of resilience tooling (e.g., backup orchestration, DR automation, configuration baselining).
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to produce concise reports and deliver persuasive presentations.

Nice-to-haves (not show-stoppers)

• Exposure to cloud resilience (Azure/AWS/GCP) and hybrid recovery architectures.
• Experience with risk management frameworks (ISO 27005, FAIR).
• Understanding of supply chain resilience and third-party risk.
• Certifications such as CBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor, CISSP, CISM, or CRISC.

At NCC Group, your mission is to help create a more secure digital future. You’ll work on high-impact projects, cutting-edge research, and real-world security challenges. We partner with some of the world’s most innovative companies and we want you to be part of that journey.

You’ll join a global team of specialists who thrive on solving complex problems. We invest in your development and well-being, and we’ve built an environment where you can grow, professionally, personally, and technically.

We balance high performance with world-class well-being benefits, including:

• Flexible working
• Pension, life assurance, share save scheme
• Generous parental leave
• Community & volunteering programmes
• Green car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellness programmes
• Learning & development opportunities
• Employee referral bonuses

If this sounds like the right fit, we’d love to hear from you.

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Note: This role requires pre-employment background checks (BS7858 screening) due to the nature of the work.