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Sia Partners

Management consulting integrating AI and design

Senior Consultant - Operational Resilience & Crisis Management

Risk, Regulatory & Legal AdvisoryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÎle-de-France, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • You hold a degree from a leading engineering or business school, or a top-tier university.
  • You have more than three years of experience designing and facilitating crisis exercises, crisis management, business continuity, or cyber resilience, in consulting, a technology solutions or services provider, or a large organization.
  • You have expertise in at least one intervention area and can reconcile business needs, continuity requirements, and operational constraints.
  • You master and can apply at least one business continuity or crisis management framework, such as ISO 22301 or ISO 22361.
  • You can rigorously analyze complex issues, defend recommendations, and build trusted relationships with stakeholders.
  • You can work autonomously and are interested in coordinating assignments and supporting junior and experienced consultants.
  • You are comfortable working in French and English, both spoken and written.
  • You have an interest in data and AI topics and can rapidly build competence in these areas.

Responsibilities

  • Define crisis management, business continuity, and recovery strategies and arrangements within your scope, setting objectives and expected outcomes, particularly for cyber crises.
  • Prepare and facilitate stakeholder workshops to conduct business impact analyses, clarify continuity needs, and inform recovery priorities.
  • Assess the maturity of resilience arrangements and the business continuity management system, consolidate team analyses, and present recommendations to decision-makers.
  • Guide the design, deployment, and operational maintenance of business continuity plans, crisis management plans, and disaster recovery plans.
  • Design, facilitate, and observe crisis exercises, including wargaming simulations; test plans and analyze lessons learned.
  • Train and raise awareness among business teams and crisis cells on business continuity and crisis management, adapting content to their responsibilities.
  • Support clients during actual crises by analyzing situations, assisting decision-making, coordinating crisis cells, and managing crisis communications.
  • Organize, prioritize, and monitor team work, ensuring deliverable quality and consistency and anticipating difficulties.
  • Share expertise with junior and experienced consultants through work reviews and regular feedback to develop their autonomy.
  • Contribute to developing the firm's offerings and Sia CyberLab solutions, from experimentation through publication, including designing AI agents to equip crisis management cells.
  • Identify emerging client needs, develop suitable responses, participate in pre-sales discussions, and help prepare commercial proposals.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in an actual crisis or major incident, use of crisis management or mass communication tools, or a certification such as CBCI or ISO 22301 LI is an advantage but not a prerequisite.

About the Company

Sia Partners

Management consulting integrating AI and design

Sia Partners is a management consulting firm that blends AI and design with traditional advisory to help clients improve performance. Its approach combines thorough analysis of competitive, regulatory, and organizational factors with AI-enabled and design-driven solutions across 30+ sectors, delivered by a global network of 2,400 consultants in 38 countries. It differentiates itself by staying independent from the IT services industry (a pure-player) and embracing a Consulting for Good mindset that creates CSR-enabled, sustainable transformations. Its goal is to become a leading independent management consulting firm in Europe, driving value-driven change for clients and responsible growth.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$12.7M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1999

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