  The identification of jets originating from beauty quarks in heavy-ion
collisions is important to study the properties of the hot and dense matter
produced in such collisions. A variety of algorithms for b-jet tagging was
elaborated at the LHC experiments. They rely on the properties of B hadrons,
i.e. their long lifetime, large mass and large multiplicity of decay products.
In this work, the b-tagging algorithm based on displaced secondary-vertex
topologies is described. We present Monte Carlo based performance studies of
the algorithm for charged jets reconstructed with the ALICE tracking system in
p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV. The tagging efficiency,
rejection rate and the correction of the smearing effects of non-ideal detector
response are presented.
