Associate Director - Crisis and Resilience Consulting
Control Risks, United States
Job Description
We seek a highly motivated, detail oriented, business-minded professional with creativity, initiative, teamwork and project management skills to help drive our Crisis and Resilience Consulting practice inclusive of business continuity, crisis management, enterprise risk management, and emergency response and the range of various impact reduction consultancy engagements.
The role of Associate Director - Crisis and Resilience Consulting is that of a fee-earning consultant who will be expected to market, sell and deliver end-to-end business continuity, crisis management, insider risk, enterprise risk management and emergency response and related resilience consulting engagements.
Role tasks and responsibilities:
Work with team members on crisis and resilience consulting engagements of diverse scope and complexity consistent with industry best practice and drawing on personal experiences. Specifically:
- Assess, design, implement and improve end-to-end programs and capabilities across all previously stated focus areas
- Develop, design and deliver scenario-based exercises for client training and testing
- Independently identify prospects and lead business development activities, including, but not limited to, conducting client meetings, scoping and writing proposals
- End-to-end project management of client engagements, including being the primary contact to the client and managing a delivery team
- Author thought leadership / white papers on topics that are relevant to our clients’ operating environments and risk profiles
- Collaborate across Control Risks to help us better solve complicated client problems
Requirements
Role requirements
Essential
- Significant experience in business continuity and crisis management for large, global corporations
- 8 to 10 years of total work experience
- Excellent client relationship skills with a track record of sales and engagement delivery success in a high-performing management consulting environment
- Experience delivering high quality engagements in multiple client industries
- The ability to both work independently and collaboratively as a team
Preferred
- At least 5 years of strategic consulting experience
- Experience in insider risk, enterprise risk management, emergency response, and product recall
- Experience living and working abroad in a consulting capacity
Qualifications
- Master’s degree
- ABCP or higher certification from DRII or equivalent organization
- Ability to travel 50-70% of the time and on short notice
- Exceptional written and interpersonal communications skills
- Ownership and accountability to drive success both within the team and across Control Risks
- The ability to multi-task and balance competing requirements, including client-facing, business development-related and internal matters
- A large degree of flexibility with regards to work schedule and peaks in work intensity
Benefits
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
- Medical Benefits, Prescription Benefits, FSA, Dental Benefits, Vision Benefits, Life and ADamp;D, Voluntary Life and ADamp;D, Disability Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, 401 (K) Retirement, Nationwide Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
- As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.