Business Continuity & Resilience Manager

About the role

PwC ETIC (Egypt Technology and Innovation Centre) in Cairo is expanding its Resilience practice, which covers Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and IT Disaster Recovery, with exposure to cyber resilience. As a manager in the Middle East practice, you will work in teams to deliver resilience implementations and remediation programmes, acting as a trusted advisor to enterprises throughout their resilience programme lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Help enterprises carry out resilience risk assessments and develop, implement, maintain and test business continuity, crisis management, incident response and IT disaster recovery frameworks and plans
• Advise on compliance with regulatory requirements and standards such as ISO 22301, DRII, BCI, NIST and others
• Collaborate with PwC Resilience leadership to build the practice in Qatar and, if needed, across the Middle East, and support risk oversight, governance, policy, standards, testing and metrics
• Review recovery plans and testing documentation, and help develop incident response activities and preparedness
• Evaluate existing resilience strategies, identify gaps and recommend improvements
• Support pre-sales: market-facing activities, executive briefings, roadshows, seminars, RFPs and tender responses, and prepare technical and commercial proposals
• Identify opportunities to expand resilience services and manage partner alliances where required

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least 5 years of experience in a related field, with at least 6 years of relevant experience in technical and business domains
• Previous experience in resilience, business continuity, crisis management, incident response or IT disaster recovery; preferably with resilience consulting firms
• Enterprise-wide business resiliency frameworks developed, and business impact analysis for large enterprises
• Project management experience (scheduling, resource planning, issue management) and strategic planning, budgeting and allocation

Required skills

• Knowledge of resilience and continuity standards and regulations
• Preferred certifications: DRII, BCI, ISO 22301 lead implementer or auditor, MBCI, COBIT, ITIL, NIST
• Understanding of enterprise threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures
• Strong communication, teamwork and managerial skills