Consultant - Crisis and Resilience Consulting - Business Continuity Specialist

Delivery of organisational resilience consulting projects across the Middle East, serving a range of sectors including leisure and entertainment, hospitality, real estate development, financial services, government, and industrial manufacturing.

The successful applicant will be a part of our growing Middle East Hub team, supporting clients in the Middle East as part of our broader EMEA team of over 100 crisis and security consultants. The role will require some travel around the region, predominantly to KSA and other GCC countries.

- Undertaking fee earning consultancy, with a:

-Primary focus on organisational resilience: business continuity management planning, crisis management planning, enterprise risk management consulting.

- Secondary focus on security risk consulting: security risk assessments (site/project/supply-chain/business), security policy and planning consultancy, security/risk maturity assessments and risk workshops.

- Client liaison, as a trusted advisor for Control Risks in order to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities.

- Ensure requests from clients and prospects are dealt with effectively.

- Support to proposal creation and project budget build-ups prior to sign-off by designated managers.

- Provide accurate information on pipeline activity to managers.

- Operational planning and management of client engagements.

- Adopt innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

- At least four years experience of delivering organisational resilience / business continuity management engagements in a consultancy setting.

- Demonstrated subject matter expertise in organisational resilience / business continuity management.

Preferred:

- Experience of working in real-estate, construction, industrial and energy / oil & gas sectors.

- Experience of working in the GCC.

- Proven ability to build successful client relationships.

- Understanding of project budgeting and capture, project management, and project closure processes.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIST SKILLS:

Essential:

- Relevant bachelor's degree

- Professional certification in business continuity management (CBCI / CBCP or equivalent).

- Excellent writing and presentation skills.

- Ability to present information to clients in a professional setting.

- Ability to quickly assimilate large quantities of new information.

Preferred:

- Masters degree or post-graduate qualification in either risk management, organisational resilience or business continuity management.

- Fluent Arabic speaker.