Director, Crisis Simulations

Beazley Security

Schweiz

Remote

CHF 210,000 - 260,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work opportunity

Commission structure

Flexible working arrangements to suit

Generous parental leave

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Lifestyle allowance

Life insurance and long-term disabled

Career advancement and training

Access to industry conferences and業

Job summary

Beazley Security seeks a Director of Crisis Simulations to own and deliver the worldwide tabletop exercises portfolio, ensuring quality and board-level outcomes across regions and time zones. The role leads a growing practice within Beazley Security and reports to the Head of Cyber Services.

The successful candidate will design scenarios, manage delivery end-to-end, drive growth through paid engagements, and mentor a multinational consultant team while expanding language coverage.

Qualifications

Substantial hands-on experience in cyber incident response and crisis management.
Designing and facilitating tabletop exercises for executive committees and boards.
Experience leading client-facing teams across multiple regions.
Commercial experience building, pricing and selling an offering and managing a revenue line.

Responsibilities

Own global tabletop delivery end-to-end, including intake, scheduling, scenario design, facilitation, after-action reporting and follow-up.
Ensure every tabletop is delivered against client entitlement, agreed service levels and regional requirements.
Personally facilitate flagship, board-level and complex multi-party tabletops.
Establish and maintain a single global methodology, scenario library, templates and quality standards.
Develop executive, technical, multi-team and sector-specific offerings and pricing with Cyber Services leadership.
Convert retainer tabletop clients into paid follow-on engagements in partnership with brokers, underwriters and account teams.
Manage the growth budget, investing within agreed guardrails in hiring, coaching, marketing, events and media.
Lead, coach and develop the crisis simulation team, comprising direct reports across the Americas and International regions.
Grow the team in line with paid tabletop revenue and the agreed growth rule(s).
Build a development pathway from Incident Management to “RMO” tabletops and then paid tabletops.
Enable two-way capacity support between Incident Management and the crisis simulation team during delivery peaks and incident surges.
Expand language and regional coverage, beginning with English, French and Spanish and adding capability as demand develops.
Raise the profile of the practice and its people through conferences, industry events, media appearances and published thought leadership.
Lead agile practice-level marketing in coordination with the Client Experience and Marketing teams.
Position the practice as the cyber crisis-simulation capability for the wider Zurich group, including Zurich Resilience Services clients.
Prepare the practice to deliver exercises funded by any future Zurich retainer and to integrate crisis-resilience specialists who may join from Zurich Resilience Services.
Track delivery against entitlement, schedule, client satisfaction, paid revenue, conversion, team growth, retention, utilisation and return on Growth Budget investment.
Measure market reach through speaking opportunities, media appearances, events and expansion of language and regional coverage.

Skills

Executive presence

Entrepreneurial mindset

Strong methodology & quality focus

Global time zone coordination

Travel internationally

Job description

Beazley Security is a global cybersecurity firm committed to helping clients enable advanced cyber defenses that reduce risk with quantifiable results. We’re comprised of top talent from private industry, government, intelligence, and law enforcement who are specialists in threat detection, incident response, digital forensics, offensive security, risk management, and cyber resilience. As a subsidiary of a specialty insurance giant, Beazley Insurance, we’ve been at the forefront of cyber insurance management and breach response activities for business clients in the US, UK, and Europe since 2017. As Beazley Security, the company will have an expanded scope, leveraging nearly two decades of cyber incident experience, a strong services division, and a business strategy focused on growth, to realize our goals and deliver benefits to clients.

As a company, we are committed to upholding our core values of Belonging, Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Curiosity. We believe these values are essential to creating a strong and inclusive workplace culture, as well as to deliver world-class cybersecurity solutions to our clients worldwide. As Beazley Security, these values will continue to thrive, with an extra emphasis on expansion of our capabilities and capacity in helping solve unique client challenges.

Summary

The Director of Crisis Simulations owns, manages and delivers Beazley Security's worldwide portfolio of tabletop exercises and crisis simulations (“ tabletops ”), ensuring consistent quality, strong client outcomes and global delivery across regions and time-zones.

Operating as the leader of an entrepreneurial practice within Beazley Security, the role is accountable for delivery standards, the paid-tabletop revenue line, team development and growth aligned to sales.

The role reports to the Head of Cyber Services and manages consultants dedicated to delivering tabletops but is also expected to deliver flagship, board-level and complex multi-party tabletops personally.

Responsibilities

Practice ownership and delivery

Own global tabletop delivery end-to-end, including intake, scheduling, scenario design, facilitation, after-action reporting and follow-up.
Ensure every tabletop is delivered against client entitlement, agreed service levels and regional requirements.
Personally facilitate flagship, board-level and complex multi-party tabletops.
Establish and maintain a single global methodology, scenario library, templates and quality standards.

Commercial growth and financial management

Develop executive, technical, multi-team and sector-specific offerings and pricing with Cyber Services leadership.
Convert retainer tabletop clients into paid follow-on engagements in partnership with brokers, underwriters and account teams.
Manage the growth budget, investing within agreed guardrails in hiring, coaching, marketing, events and media.

Team leadership and talent

Lead, coach and develop the crisis simulation team, comprising direct reports across the Americas and International regions.
Grow the team in line with paid tabletop revenue and the agreed growth rule(s).
Build a development pathway from Incident Management to “RMO” tabletops and then paid tabletops.
Enable two-way capacity support between Incident Management and the crisis simulation team during delivery peaks and incident surges.
Expand language and regional coverage, beginning with English, French and Spanish and adding capability as demand develops.

Market presence

Raise the profile of the practice and its people through conferences, industry events, media appearances and published thought leadership.
Lead agile practice-level marketing in coordination with the Client Experience and Marketing teams.
Position the practice as the cyber crisis-simulation capability for the wider Zurich group, including Zurich Resilience Services clients.
Prepare the practice to deliver exercises funded by any future Zurich retainer and to integrate crisis-resilience specialists who may join from Zurich Resilience Services.

Performance and success measures

Track delivery against entitlement and schedule, client satisfaction, paid revenue, conversion, team growth, retention, utilisation and return on Growth Budget investment.
Measure market reach through speaking opportunities, media appearances, events and expansion of language and regional coverage.

Qualifications

Substantial hands-on experience in cyber incident response and crisis management, ideally within a digital forensics and incident response or insurer-backed incident response environment.
Proven record of designing and facilitating tabletop exercises for technical teams, executive committees and boards.
Experience leading and developing a client-facing team across multiple regions.
Commercial experience building, pricing and selling an offering and managing a revenue line.
Experience working with insurers, brokers and the cyber insurance ecosystem.

Skills and attributes

Executive presence and outstanding facilitation skills, with confidence presenting to boards, media and conference audiences.
Entrepreneurial mindset combined with financial discipline and a focus on investment that drives measurable growth.
Strong methodology and quality focus, with the ability to turn specialist expertise into repeatable products.
Ability & willingness to work with colleagues and direct reports across global time zones, from UTC -7 to UTC +10.
Willingness to travel international

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