Director, Crisis Simulations

About Beazley Security

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 a...