Business Resilience Consultant

Location: London, Chesterfield or Glasgow

Ready To Make Businesses Stronger in the Face of Crisis?

Are you passionate about resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery? Do you thrive on helping organisations prepare for the unexpected, ensuring they can continue operating no matter what? At Databarracks, we don’t just protect technology—we keep businesses running when the worst happens. If you have the expertise to help organizations plan, test, and strengthen their resilience strategies, then this role is for you.

As a Business Resilience Consultant , you’ll be the trusted advisor for our clients, working with them to design, test, and improve their business continuity (BC) and IT disaster recovery (DR) plans. From cyber threats to reputational crises, you’ll help businesses navigate risks, ensuring they are prepared for anything.

What You’ll Do Here:

1. Partner with client teams to develop and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery programs.
2. Facilitate resilience exercises, helping organizations test their response to different crisis scenarios.
3. Work closely with technology teams to ensure BC and DR strategies align with IT infrastructure capabilities.
4. Identify gaps, set Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and define resilience needs.
5. Provide expert guidance on technology strategies and solutions to keep businesses operational.
6. Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses, ensuring clients have solid recovery strategies in place.
7. Lead senior leadership teams through crisis simulation exercises to refine their response plans.
8. Offer clear, actionable recommendations to strengthen organizations\’ resilience frameworks.

Are You the Resilience Expert We’re Looking For?

We’re searching for someone who can:

1. Work with nominated client business areas to develop and maintain necessary programmes that address business continuity and disaster recovery.
2. Work with client resilience teams to develop effective working relationships and documented plans.
3. Liaise with key client teams to identify gaps, set recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives and determine technology resilience needs.
4. Develop technology strategies, solutions and plans to meet critical functions and needs.
5. Design and outline goals, objectives and scope for business plans and assist in the development of BC and IT DR planning and goals.
6. Support client management in aligning business continuity planning, initiatives and goals with IT DR goals and Infrastructure capabilities.
7. Identify and make recommendations for IT DR solutions to meet BC-derived requirements.
8. Develop and execute maintenance and testing programs for BC and DR plans.
9. Design and implement tests and exercises of client BC and DR plans and response processes.
10. 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:

1. Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) or equivalent.
2. 3 years of hands-on experience managing BC and DR in multi-site environments.
3. A strong understanding of BC and DR systems, frameworks, and industry best practices.
4. Experience in planning and running crisis simulation exercises with leadership and operational teams.
5. Project management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple workstreams simultaneously.
6. Strong stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills.

Why Databarracks?

We’re not your average resilience consultancy. We’re a tight-knit, ambitious team that has grown by hiring smart, motivated people who love what they do. If you want a role where you can develop your expertise, work with major clients, and make a tangible impact, this is your opportunity.

Ready to Build a More Resilient Future? Apply now and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of business resilience. Send us your CV at hrdatabarracks.com along with a short note on why you’re ready to take your career to the next level.

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