Delivery Lead

Role purpose

Owns end-to-end delivery of the BCM programme, from mobilization through business impact analysis, strategy definition, plan development, exercising and embedding into business-as-usual. Accountable for scope, schedule, quality, commercials and client relationship, and is the single point of ownership the client holds responsible for the engagement.

Key responsibilities

Delivery ownership

• Own the delivery plan, milestones, dependencies and critical path against the signed Statement of Work

• Run governance: weekly status reporting, steering committee updates, RAID log, change control

• Manage deliverable production, internal quality review and formal client acceptance

• Track commercials — budget, burn rate, milestone invoicing and revenue recognition

• Identify and manage scope creep; raise change requests before work is undertaken

BCM technical scope

• Define BCM scope, policy and governance structure aligned to ISO 22301 and applicable regulatory frameworks

• Direct the Business Impact Analysis: critical activities, dependencies, MTPD, RTO, RPO and MBCO

• Oversee threat and risk assessment and the resulting continuity strategy options

• Govern development of business continuity plans, crisis management structure, incident response protocols and communication trees

• Ensure IT disaster recovery capability is mapped against business recovery objectives and gaps are surfaced

• Design and run the exercise programme — walkthrough, tabletop, simulation and live failover — and drive remediation from findings

• Build the awareness, training and continual improvement cycle so the capability survives handover

Stakeholder and team management

• Serve as primary interface to the client sponsor, BCM function, risk, IT and business unit leads

• Secure client-side inputs, approvals and participation, and escalate dependency slippage early

• Lead and develop the delivery team; allocate work, review output, manage utilization

• Run knowledge transfer so the client can operate the capability independently

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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