About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are 3,300 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

Our hybrid way of working is designed to help you plan your work and your life. We want decisions about ‘where to work’ to be governed by ‘the work we need to do’ – whether that’s at client sites, offices/labs/studios, or remotely from home.

We have five principles which will help us balance both creating a high-performance culture that delivers for our clients and the firm, and being understanding and inclusive to individuals, and the teams in which we all work. Our principles are: we put your safety first; we trust PA people; we respect difference; we are responsive to clients and we are responsive to individuals and teams.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

PA’s Operational Resilience team help our clients to design and build resilient businesses to protect their reputation, respond to regulation and maintain competitive advantage.  

Our view is that business resilience can only be sought through an analysis of end-to-end operations; that today’s organisations need an approach that is broader than the previous traditional disciplines of business continuity management. Our method is to critically assess resilience matters in all vulnerable areas of an organisation.  

We have opportunities for a Principal Resilience Consultant to join our Cyber Security & Digital Trust team in either Bristol, London or Manchester. You will be directly supporting our efforts to build our national resilience capability and dealing with our FTSE 100 clients working at CXO level. We are looking for candidates with enthusiasm, curiosity, personal drive, technical knowhow and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. If you can combine these skills with expertise in resilience and a desire to deliver excellent services for clients, we would like to hear from you.

Day to day tasks could include:

·       Advising clients by gathering, processing, analysing and interpreting data

• Developing business continuity, risk management and resilience strategies / plans
• Conducting comprehensive multi-hazard risk assessments
• Horizon scanning and Scenario planning
• Business wargaming and stress testing
• Complex systems mapping
• Performing resilience gap analyses for clients
• Assessing resilience benefits of a variety of strategic options
• Delivering resilience building projects and programmes
• Delivering resilience transformation projects

Experience of, or interest in, some of the following would be desirable

• Business Operations
• Business Psychology
• Economics
• Climate Resilience
• Sustainability
• Energy systems
• Data visualisation software such as Power BI or Kumu.
• Logistics and process mapping

You will have:

• Experience in resilience, business operations, complex systems
• Excellent stakeholder management skills used to facilitate workshops
• An analytical mind with the ability to analyse and solve complex / complicated problems
• Experience in risk assessments and strategy development.
• Strong written skills to communicate technical information and issues to non-technical audiences – with particular reference to report writing and oral presentation
• Experience in data analysis and system mapping, GIS a plus
• Good visualisation skills, ie ability to convey information in attractive, visual format
• Ability to combine understanding of business needs, technical solutions, digital solutions and people related solutions.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Travel allowance
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
• Additional optional benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)
   

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]