Seasoned Certified Business Continuity Professional
Location: North West Coast Based
Compensation: $150-200K
Relocation: Yes
Travel: up to 30%

This senior level candidate has witnessed firsthand what a good business resilience program can do for a business, and what the lack of such a program can do to a business.

As an accomplished senior leader this candidate’s focus is on building Business Resilience into organizations, by integrating scalable business continuity, emergency management, issues management, crisis management, and disaster recovery programs. This candidate has built continuity and mitigation programs in both centralized and decentralized models with optimum results. Work experience spans multiple sectors, including those within the country’s critical infrastructure.

Qualities this candidate will bring to your company include:

· Quantitative as well as qualitative results.
· Proven negotiation abilities.
· Experienced strategic and operational planning and implementation.
· Effective formal and informal, written and oral, communication skills.
· Successful expense containment and budget management.
· Effective collaboration across an organization.
· Practiced technology and business acumen.

As a Certified Business Continuity Professional this candidate focuses on the effects rather than the cause of a business interruption, expanding the breadth of companies’ business continuity and disaster recovery programs to improve their business resilience. This candidate can help improve your company’s overall sustainability.

Contact a BC Management representative if interested in hiring this Weekly Top Talent Professional.

Looking to hire continuity, resiliency, crisis management, risk management, emergency management and/or security professionals? Check out additional top talent confidential bios at http://www.bcmanagement.com/top-talent.html.

Interested in becoming a BC Management Top Talent candidate? If so, please inquire with a BC Management representative at info@bcmanagement.com.

BC Management'sBCM Compensation Data Findings (Europe)
(Data collected between May – December 2011)

Highlights from the 2011 Europe Study Findings
1.  Respondents from Europe fared better in changing jobs (an average 18% increase in total compensation) compared to their counterparts in Canada (13% average increase), the United States (1% average increase) and Asia Pacific (11% average increase). 

2. Entry-level/ Analyst study respondents received the most sizeable increase in total compensation with an average of 21%.Vice President/ Director and Global Manager followed closely behind in average change in total compensation with 14% and 17% respectively. 
 
3. Career paths into business continuity still remains heavy on the IT sector, but there were high responses for consultant, management and security-information career paths too.

4. 70% of the respondents from Europe have obtained an industry certification.

 This comprehensive report (45+ pages) was distributed as a complimentary report to those professionals who completed BC Management’s 10th Annual BCM Study. Haven't received your report? Contact BC Management .  Next Europe BCM Compensation Report will not be published until October 2012. 

Due to different currencies, the data throughout this report is shown as a percent of respondents for all of Europe.  The report does include additional data figures for the United Kingdom as this country received a greater number of study respondents.  
 
How to use the BCM Compensation Report (45+ pages)?
- Evaluate how your credentials/ expertise compare to your peers.  For example, what percent of respondents are certified and degreed?  What percent of respondents are leaders in the profession in regards to publishing, public speaking, and serving on an association board?  Quite simply...  what's the competition?

- Assess the trending of skill sets, specifically with certifications and advanced education in the profession.

- Identify the skills needed toobtain your career goals and increase your earning potential.

- Determine where your experience lines up in each data chart.  Average these compensation findings from all the data charts based on your level of expertise.  If you’re a certified VP managing a global program with 15 years of experience, then you should expect to be earning more than the average total compensation for all business continuity professionals within your specified country.

- Be competitive with your compensations to retain your current staff and/or determine the proper compensation levels to attract new hires.

- Share the report with your corporate human resource department.  You never know what can happen with your next performance review….

 You may still purchase the report if you did not complete our 10th Annual BCM Study.  Standard retail price is $75 USD.  View BCM Program Management Data Research/ Metrics reports also available. 

BC Management, Inc – Job Posting #2559

Position: Director, Global Business Continuity Planning
Status: Full-time, Permanent Hire
Location: Minneapolis, MN - Relocation Assistance
Provided.  Must have Current Work Authorization.
Salary: Total Package of $300K +

*****Candidates must have proven experience managing a global business continuity, risk management program.  Will have 20-25 direct reports.  Must have a strong senior presence.

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.  This is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex or handicap.

To apply to this position please visit http://www.bcmanagement.com/search-jobs.html and enter the job number 2559.
 
To learn more about the position, please contact Cheyene Haase - BC Management Inc. at chaase@bcmanagement.com
or +1 714-969-8006.

BC Management’s Annual BCM Study assesses how well integrated business continuity programs are with other corporate functions

Study Question: How well integrated is your business continuity program with the organizational strategic plan/ corporate mission statement? Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 meaning “No Integration” and 5 meaning “Completely Integrated”.

BC Management’s study results revealed that 5.88% of those study respondents also noting a “Very Immature" program indicated that their business continuity program was “Completely Integrated” with the organizational strategic plan/ corporate mission statement while 41.18% of those study respondents with “Very Mature” programs noted the same. 

Interested in learning how your business continuity program compares to the most mature programs? 
Our study asked the hard questions and contingency management executives gave their answers on a confidential basis.

BC Management, Inc – Job Posting #2560

Position: BCM Contract Consultant  **Immediate Need!**
Status: Contract
Timeframe: Estimated at 300 – 450+ hours with potential for additional future contracting engagements
Start date:  Week of May 14, 2012
Location: New York City, NY – Local Candidates Only
Salary: Based on Experience

**Position will be assisting one of our consulting partners in delivering to their end clients.  Our consulting partner has a preference for independent consultants seeking contract work only.  Candidates should have 5-8+ years business continuity planning expertise and be based locally in the tri-state NY location.  

Role Description:
Seeking an independent business continuity planning consultant to assist our consulting partner’s clients with conducting a Business Impact Analysis, strategy planning and writing business continuity plans.  The consultant will be utilizing the consulting partner’s software product in delivering solutions for the end clients with the assistance from a software engineer.

Seeking a consultant with previous work experience within both a financial and hospital (or healthcare related dealing with HIPAA) organizations.

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.  This is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex or handicap.

To apply to this position please visit http://www.bcmanagement.com/search-jobs.html and enter the job number 2560.
 
To learn more about the position, please contact Cheyene Haase - BC Management Inc. at chaase@bcmanagement.com or +1 714-969-8006.

BC Management is assisting several clients with business continuity and disaster recovery job openings

Current BCM Career Activity – New Jobs ASAP Need

BC Management, a global leader in recruiting and placing continuity, resiliency, crisis management and risk management professionals, is assisting multiple clients with their personnel needs. Please share this with colleagues who may be qualified for any of these job openings. Thanks for your interest and your help.

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Jobs Based in USA – Professionals Must Have Current Paperwork to Work in the USA
  
· IT DR Advisory Consultant (Job #2556) – Phoenix, AZ.  *Contract position with a timeframe through the end of 2012 with a potential for extension. This is a very hands on technical IT position.

· Director Business Continuity (Job #2541) – Santa Clara, CA.  *Successful candidates must possess 8-10+ years experience managing a enterprise BC/CM wide program within a financial institution. Along with, proven experience as the responsible person during multiple crisis situations.

· Sr. Risk Analyst (Job #2542) – Fort Lauderdale, FL. *Seeking candidates with 7 years expertise in insurance coupled with minimal business continuity expertise. The main
focus of this position will be to provide support for the management of company’s insurance programs, as well as serve as a backup and support for the company’s business continuity and critical incident planning.  Also responsible for risk identification and analysis to support the business units of the organization.

·  Disaster Recovery Consultant (Job #2554) - northern NJ, New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta or Toronto. *Candidates must have 3-5 years in technology consulting, operations or architecture capacity.  This is a technical hands on position.

·  Business Risk Consultant (Job #2544) – San Francisco, CA or NY, NY.  *Candidates must have a solid financial analysis consulting background as a primary skill set with BCP expertise as a secondary qualification.  Client company is seeking candidates from a Big Accounting Consulting background, i.e, D&T, PWC, KPMG, Protiviti, etc.  The BIAs conducted for clients are more focused on the financial risk assessment versus the standard BCP BIA approach.

· Business Continuity Management Consultant (Job #2546) – NYC, NY.  *Seeking candidates who have previously worked for a Big 4 consulting company (Deloitte& Touché, KPMG, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, etc) or a large consulting company.  Candidates who are fluent in Spanish and English are highly desirable.

·  IT Architect – Disaster Recovery (Job #2547) – San Francisco, CA or Reston, VA.  *This role is highly technical. 
The successful candidate must have an exceptional technical understanding with DR architecture design, storage technologies and high availability solutions. 

• Disaster Recovery Manager Senior (Job #2412) – Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - Relocation Assistance Provided.  *Client is seeking a candidate who has either built a DR program from scratch or successfully augmented an effective best in class DR program. The candidate must bring real world experience with the ability to clearly articulate what did and did not work in previous programs and why. Experience with highly resilient Infrastructure environments is a primary requirement for this position.  Must have recent experience designing high availability solutions within multiple platforms within a large IT enterprise environment.  Seeking candidates who have come from a large enterprise financial services environment.  Candidates must have exceptional, proven staff management skills.