Business Continuity & Resilience Consultant
About the assignment
Organisations face growing threats to operational continuity: cyberattacks, natural disasters, supply chain failures. Your role is to assess vulnerabilities, design robust recovery frameworks, and ensure teams can respond effectively when incidents strike.
You work with cross-functional stakeholders—from operations and IT to senior leadership—to embed resilience into business processes. You'll translate complex recovery requirements into actionable plans, test assumptions through tabletop exercises, and refine strategies based on findings.
Your responsibilities
- Assess critical business functions and map dependencies across systems and processes
- Design business continuity and disaster recovery plans aligned with organisational risk appetite
- Develop and facilitate tabletop exercises, simulations and recovery drills
- Quantify recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for key services
- Build resilience documentation including procedures, runbooks and communication protocols
- Monitor regulatory requirements and update plans to maintain compliance
- Advise on technology choices and configurations that support recovery capabilities
- Report on resilience maturity and recommend improvements to leadership
Tech Stack & Tools
Platforms & Tooling
Frameworks & Standards
Cloud & Infrastructure
Methodologies
Certifications (preferred)
Must-haves
- 5+ years designing or managing business continuity and disaster recovery programmes
- Proven ability to conduct business impact analyses and translate findings into recovery strategies
- Experience designing and facilitating resilience exercises and recovery drills
- Strong stakeholder management across technical, operational and executive levels
- Knowledge of ISO 22301 or equivalent resilience frameworks
Nice-to-haves
- Background in cybersecurity incident response or crisis management
- Experience with cloud failover architectures and multi-region deployments
- CBCP, RESILIA or ISO 22301 certification
What we offer
- Shape resilience strategy for a large, complex organisation
- Work with senior stakeholders and influence business priorities
- Access to emerging resilience tools and methodologies
- Opportunity to build and lead a resilience centre of excellence
- Competitive salary and flexible working arrangements
- Personal guidance from a dedicated MVPeople consultant who knows your niche
The process
Introduction
Phone call with your MVPeople consultant (within 24 hours)
Match & Brief
We discuss the assignment in detail and prepare you
Client meeting
Introduction to the client
Start
Contracting and onboarding
Details
Type
Freelance / ZZP (MVPeople)
Location
Amersfoort, UT
Work model
Hybrid
Level
Senior
Industry
overige
Market indication
€90 - €120 per hour
Posted
10 November 2026
Job ID
60076
Contact
MVPeople Group
cv@mvpeoplegroup.com