Risk & Internal Audit
Business Resilience Search
We place the leaders who design business continuity, operational resilience and crisis-management capabilities, an advisory area regulation has turned from optional to mandatory across APAC, Dubai and London.
Market overview
Business resilience has been promoted from a niche continuity-planning service to a regulated, board-sponsored discipline, and the catalyst is operational-resilience regulation. The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act took effect in January 2025, applies to 20 categories of financial entity and their ICT providers, and reaches extraterritorially to APAC firms serving EU clients [6]; MAS and other APAC regulators run parallel operational-resilience and outsourcing expectations. Each turns resilience into a multi-year, partner-led advisory programme.
Demand is reinforced by APAC's exposure to systemic disruption. The region's role as the world's manufacturing and supply-chain hub leaves companies acutely exposed to geopolitical tension, trade disruption and natural catastrophe, which is repeatedly cited as a driver of risk-advisory demand and of supply-chain and continuity work specifically [1].
The capability set has widened accordingly. Firms now need leaders fluent in operational-resilience mapping (important business services, impact tolerances and scenario testing), classic business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning, and live crisis-management and incident-response advisory. This sits at the intersection of risk, technology and operations, which narrows the field of credible partner candidates.
Because resilience leadership blends regulatory fluency with operational credibility and client relationships, it suits a targeted retained search. CharteredPartners identifies the leaders who can build a resilience practice, win regulated mandates and stand up to regulator and board scrutiny when an incident actually happens.
What we cover
- Business continuity planning
- Operational resilience
- Crisis management
Roles we place
Practice Leadership
- Partner, Operational Resilience
- Business Resilience Practice Leader
- Director, Resilience & Continuity Advisory
Continuity & Recovery
- Business Continuity Planning Lead
- Director, Disaster Recovery & Continuity
- Operational Resilience Senior Manager
Crisis & Incident
- Head of Crisis Management Advisory
- Incident Response & Recovery Director
- Scenario Testing & Stress Lead
Candidate profile
Resilience and continuity credentials such as MBCI / CBCI (BCI), CBCP (DRI), often combined with a CA or risk designation.
Direct experience mapping important business services, impact tolerances and scenario testing under DORA / MAS-style operational-resilience regimes, with operational credibility in live crisis and incident response, not just plan documentation.
Origination of regulated resilience and outsourcing-risk mandates within a Big Four or mid-tier practice.
Regional reach across the Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and Gulf corridors, with supply-chain-risk fluency valued given APAC manufacturing exposure.
Seniority
- Senior Manager
- Director / Principal
- Partner
- Practice Leader / Head of Resilience
Sectors served
- Financial services & insurance
- Manufacturing & supply chain
- Technology & telecoms
- Critical infrastructure & utilities
- Transport & logistics
- Public sector
Frequently asked
- What is driving demand for resilience leaders right now?
- Operational-resilience regulation. DORA came into force in January 2025 with extraterritorial reach into APAC, and MAS and peer regulators run parallel expectations on important business services and impact tolerances. That converts resilience from a one-off plan into a regulated, multi-year programme that needs partner-level leadership.
- How is business resilience different from cyber risk?
- They overlap on ICT and incident response, but resilience is broader: it spans continuity, recovery, supply-chain disruption and live crisis management across the whole enterprise, anchored on regulated impact tolerances. We place leaders who can sit at that intersection rather than pure-play cyber specialists.
- Do resilience hires need operational, not just advisory, credibility?
- Yes, and it is the differentiator. Boards and regulators want leaders who have managed real incidents, so we assess live crisis experience alongside the advisory book and the BCI / DRI credentials.