Cyber Resilience Recovery Lead
Posted 5 days ago by Stott and May
Negotiable
Outside
Undetermined
England, UK
Summary: The Cyber Resilience Recovery Lead is a temporary role focused on developing and implementing a comprehensive Recovery Runbook in response to ransomware incidents. This position requires strong leadership and collaboration with various teams to enhance the organization's cyber resilience strategy. The successful candidate will report to senior leadership and navigate organizational complexities to ensure effective recovery planning. This role is critical for shaping the organization's response to cyber threats within a multinational enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of a ransomware recovery runbook within the first 3 months of engagement.
- Coordinate and align with cross-functional teams, including IT, InfoSec, Legal, Risk, and Business Continuity, to ensure the runbook is comprehensive and executable.
- Drive execution readiness, ensuring the organization is capable of enacting the recovery plan effectively.
- Identify and address gaps in current recovery capabilities, leveraging existing building blocks and enhancing where necessary.
- Facilitate workshops and simulations to validate the runbook and improve organizational preparedness.
- Report progress to senior leadership, including executive stakeholders up to President level.
- Navigate organizational complexity and politics with confidence and clarity to maintain momentum and focus.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in cyber resilience, disaster recovery, or incident response, ideally in large, complex organizations.
- Strong understanding of ransomware threats, recovery strategies, and business continuity planning.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver under pressure and within tight timelines.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Strong project leadership and organizational skills.
- Ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity to drive clear outcomes.
- Experience working in multinational or multichannel environments is highly desirable.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Cyber Resilience Recovery Lead
Contract - 9 Months
Outside IR35
Occasional onsite London
Overview
We are seeking an experienced and assertive Cyber Resilience Recovery Lead to join our team on a temporary basis. This critical role will focus on the rapid development and implementation of a comprehensive Recovery Runbook in response to a widespread ransomware scenario.
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape and deliver a key component of our cyber resilience strategy across a multinational, multichannel enterprise. The successful candidate will work with executive backing and a strong network of SMEs to cut through complexity and deliver tangible outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the development of a ransomware recovery runbook within the first 3 months of engagement.
Coordinate and align with cross-functional teams, including IT, InfoSec, Legal, Risk, and Business Continuity, to ensure the runbook is comprehensive and executable.
Drive execution readiness, ensuring the organization is capable of enacting the recovery plan effectively.
Identify and address gaps in current recovery capabilities, leveraging existing building blocks and enhancing where necessary.
Facilitate workshops and simulations to validate the runbook and improve organizational preparedness.
Report progress to senior leadership, including executive stakeholders up to President level.
Navigate organizational complexity and politics with confidence and clarity to maintain momentum and focus.
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience in cyber resilience, disaster recovery, or incident response, ideally in large, complex organizations.
Strong understanding of ransomware threats, recovery strategies, and business continuity planning.
Demonstrated ability to deliver under pressure and within tight timelines.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
Strong project leadership and organizational skills.
Ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity to drive clear outcomes.
Experience working in multinational or multichannel environments is highly desirable.