Enterprise Resilience Consultant

BCBSM, Inc.; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

401k

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota seeks an Enterprise Resilience Consultant based in Minnesota. You will strengthen organizational resilience by analyzing impacts, developing continuity plans, and guiding crisis response.

The role partners with leaders to improve recovery strategies and ensure governance across resilience programs. This senior position requires 3+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree, and knowledge of industry standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of related Enterprise Resilience professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience may be accepted.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve recovery plans with stakeholders.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and single points of failure to improve resilience.
• Lead exercises, testing, and validation; monitor metrics and reporting.
• Provide guidance on planning requirements, and document governance activities.
• Support incident, crisis, and recovery activities with activation and documentation.

Skills

Enterprise Resilience

Business Continuity

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

DRII or BCI certification

Tools

ISO 22301 knowledge

NIST/FEMA familiarity

Job description

About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.

The Impact You'll Have

The Enterprise Resilience Consultant will help strengthen the organization's ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from operational disruptions. As part of the Enterprise Resilience Program, this role will partner with business leaders to conduct business impact analysis, develop and maintain continuity plans, facilitate exercises, and identify opportunities to improve organizational resilience. The successful candidate will serve as a business continuity subject matter expert, providing guidance on recovery requirements, continuity strategies, and resilience best practices. They will independently manage continuity planning activities, support program governance and reporting, and drive continuous improvement across business continuity processes. They will also demonstrate knowledge of industry metrics and reporting requirements in regulated industries. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, along with practical experience supporting resilience programs in a complex business environment. In addition, this role will support the Crisis Management Program by coordinating preparedness activities, documenting decisions and action items during crisis events and exercises, maintaining response documentation, and assisting crisis leadership with operational and administrative activities. This position is intended for an experienced continuity professional with 3 or more years of relevant experience. Candidates are expected to have a working knowledge of enterprise resilience principles and the ability to independently perform core continuity activities with minimal supervision.

What You'll Do

Develop, maintain, and continuously improve recovery plans with stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with program standards and requirements.

Identify risks, dependencies, capability gaps, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve resilience posture.

Partner with stakeholders to identify critical needs and dependencies to establish recovery requirements, objectives, and strategies that support organizational needs.

How You'll Do It

Lead exercises, testing, and validation activities; evaluate results, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and drive corrective actions through completion.

Monitor program compliance, metrics, reporting, milestones, and action plans.

Provide consultation and guidance to stakeholders, leadership, and vendors regarding planning requirements, practices, and program standards.

Maintain documentation, repositories, inventories, reporting, and supporting materials required for governance, audit, risk, regulatory, and compliance activities.

Support risk identification activities by assessing potential disruptions that could impact critical business functions or third-party providers.

Identify and implement improvements to program processes, testing methodologies, reporting, and governance.

Support incident, crisis, and recovery activities by coordinating activation, response, documentation, and follow-up.

Providing on-call support events and activations as required.

Perform additional responsibilities consistent with the scope and level of the role, as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of related Enterprise Resilience professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience beyond the qualifications listed above may be accepted.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated experience conducting Business Impact Analysis, developing and remediating business continuity plans, and developing and maintaining metrics for all associated program activities.
• Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, exercises, or stakeholder engagements.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience documenting procedures, processes, plans, and operational requirements.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Skilled at creative, critical and analytical thinking, decision making and problem solving.
• Demonstrated understanding of standards and deliverables to ensure integrity of the enterprise resilience process.
• Strong human relations skills to effectively interact with leadership and management, peers, business partners and vendors.
• Demonstrated skills at hands‑on communication, collaboration and leadership.
• Skilled at influencing and motivating individuals and teams.
• DRII or BCI certification
• Knowledge of industry standards and frameworks including ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA, or operational resilience guidance.

Role Designation

Hybrid Role designation definition: Teleworking is working full time remote. Hybrid is a minimum of 2 days onsite. Onsite is full-time onsite. Anchored in Connection Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week – most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.

Compensation and Benefits

$90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 Annual Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401k
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
• And more

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affiantive Action plan, as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic. Individuals with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply, please contact us at: [e-mail].

Physical requirements.

Chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan, this company is one of the most recognized and trusted healthcare brands in the world. It has more members, the largest network of doctors, and more products and services than any other health plan in Minnesota. Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota.

Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota and Blue Plus® are nonprofit independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.