Senior Consultant, Organizational Resilience

Description & Requirements

Our Organizational Resilience practice brings our global footprint, clients, industry expertise, and innovative solutions together to help global companies exceed their strategic objectives and needs. As a future Senior Consultant on our Organizational Resilience Team, we are looking for an established professional with experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, and/or Incident Management. A promising candidate should have a strong background helping clients and / or organizations build and sustain Organizational Resilience programs, including but not limited to conducting business impact analyses and risk assessments, developing continuity and recovery plans, implementing and / or managing technical disaster recovery solutions, and conducting applicable tests and exercises.

What You Will Do:

* Demonstrate foundational expertise in organizational resilience frameworks, including business continuity planning, operational risk management, process optimization, and systems enablement

* Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities across critical processes and systems

* Partner with IT disaster recovery teams to validate and reconcile business-defined recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) with technical recovery capabilities, identifying gaps, documenting risk exposure, and supporting prioritization of remediation efforts

* Design and implement business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management strategies to enhance organizational resilience

* Lead client engagements by managing project plans, overseeing internal teams, and serving as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, proactively identifying risks, resolving challenges, and ensuring alignment between business, IT, and leadership expectations

* Plan, coordinate, and facilitate testing and exercise programs, including working sessions, tabletop exercises, and functional/technical simulations

* Support end-to-end client engagements across the full project lifecycle, including assessment, design, implementation, and optimization phases

* Translate assessment and BIA outputs into actionable insights for client leadership, supporting risk-based prioritization, resilience investment decisions, and operating model improvements

* Contribute to firmwide initiatives focused on resilience strategy, risk mitigation, and operational improvement

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree

* 2+ years of experience

* Experience aligning business continuity and disaster recovery requirements with enterprise IT environments

* Ability to travel, when required

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in consulting or professional services role is a plus

* Relevant Certification (e.g., CBCP, CBCI, ISO)

* Experience supporting resilience, continuity, or risk programs in regulated or highly complex environments (e.g., healthcare, higher education, energy, financial services)

* Experience with business continuity or disaster recovery tools and platforms (e.g., Service Now BCM, Fusion, Archer), or designing structured BIA data models and reporting frameworks

* Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional workshops and translate complex resilience concepts into clear, executive-level insights and recommendations

* Experience integrating business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident management into a unified resilience framework aligned to industry standards (e.g., ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA ICS)

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