As Associate Director you will primarily be responsible for leading strategic consulting projects across delivery, project management, oversight and quality assurance, while maintaining focus on project delivery discipline. You will also be expected to support and lead on business development, sales and marketing activities as required. You will also play an important part in setting direction on broader intelligence collection and priorities, and contributing to strategic thought leadership of the team. Additionally, you will be expected to frequently and articulately brief senior client audiences on the strategic threat landscape, digital risks and wider technology developments. The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate reliable, high-quality delivery, sound commercial judgement and disciplined execution of engagements. Please note that this role requires you to work in our London (Bank/Monument) office at least three days per week on a hybrid basis.

Project delivery

• Lead on delivery of strategic threat intelligence products for clients, ensuring high quality and actionable outputs aligned to client requirements and best-practice intelligence methodology.
• Manage client projects independently across the project life cycle.
• Set direction, supervise and support junior colleagues and peers on project teams to ensure that deliverables are high quality and meet client requirements.
• Maintain awareness of key trends and developments of relevance to current and prospective clients and proactively seek out opportunity to engage with clients on relevant incidents, topics and trends.

Business development

• Take an active part in driving the strategic CTI business growth, including originating client engagements, contributing to business unit and wider service line growth targets and supporting significant cross-service line opportunities.
• Leading on scoping strategic CTI requirements, as well as contributing to scoping and winning complex global engagements. Able to effectively collaborate with internal teams in Digital Risks and in the wider Control Risks business both in sharing relevant work from CTI-led engagements and in drawing CTI opportunities from wider engagements.
• Work closely with the wider threat intelligence (TI) leadership and analysts to ensure the TI product remains cohesive and able to service holistic client security intelligence needs.
• Generate and maintain relevant collaterals and materials that can be shared by Digital Risks and wider Control Risks colleagues to engage clients and drive business development.

Subject matter expertise

• Demonstrate strategic CTI and cyber security expertise applicable to private sector organisations across a range of sectors with a clear view of emerging threats and trends relevant to our clients and their technologies.
• Competently deliver briefings to senior audiences across several different sectors and countries
• Work across the Digital Risks department and wider Control Risks departments to share intelligence, enabling client deliverables and engagement with clients and prospects.
• Demonstrate robust understanding of the geopolitical, technological, economic and social drivers of cyber threats to produce forward-looking intelligence analysis.
• Deliver strong written outputs, PowerPoint presentations and verbal briefings, understanding and articulating threat in a client-specific context tailored to the client stakeholder and the client’s overall maturity.

Brand and Marketing

• Producing marketing materials and public-facing analysis designed to demonstrate CTI capability and subject matter expertise to a public audience.
• Creating collaterals to be shared with clients and prospects outlining threats to specific geomarkets and sectors, while also outlining clearly our CTI capabilities and value add.

Management and administration

• Responsible for effectively managing consulting engagements end to end, tracking utilisation and realisation, setting up projects, managing income accruals and invoicing.
• Reviewing income, accruals and invoicing across project portfolio.

Innovation

• Explore technology and tooling to automate workflows and content to improve client deliverables and internal processes, while ensuring appropriate guardrails are in place
• Maintain analytical rigour centred on the human-led approach, ensuring self and team are appropriately trained and cognizant of issues and risks involved with automation
• Lead on non-technology driven content and process innovation to improve quality and margins

Requirements

Essential

• Highly motivated and autonomous individual with ability to self-task and develop own research.
• Track record of originating and/or driving growth with intelligence clients, including delivering client engagements end to end, maintaining engagement post-project delivery.
• Evidence of managing multiple concurrent consulting, intelligence engagements including managing finance, project admin and project resourcing across a portfolio.
• Good level of intelligence experience in a relevant field in private or public sector organisations.
• Some experience in a commercial cyber security or Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) setting.
• Demonstrable experience in the field of geopolitics, threat intelligence and/or cyber security through academic or professional engagement with a clear understanding of the Americas threat landscape and how it applies to specific organisations.
• Experience briefing and pitching to senior audiences on cyber and intelligence topics.

Preferred

• Strong preference for CTI qualifications, including CCTIM or experienced CRTIA
• Practical knowledge and understanding of cyber security concepts and methods.
• Practical experience in the field of intelligence collection, analysis and reviewing.
• Ability to present technical information and analysis to a non-technical audience.
• Demonstrable experience of business development, marketing or winning client work.
• Educated to degree / masters level or equivalent significant work experience in an intelligence, cyber security or social science field (Terrorism, Politics, International Relations, Intelligence Studies).
• Understanding of both qualitative and quantitative analytical tools and techniques.
• Intelligence analysis (CREST, NIAT, GIAT, DIAM, City and Guilds) or cyber security (CISSP, CEH, CLASS) qualifications.
• Experience using MS SharePoint tooling, including PowerBI and PowerAutomate.
• Languages preferred: Mandarin, Russian, Farsi, Arabic.
  

Qualifications and specialist skills

• The desired candidate may have a background in CTI, intelligence collection or geopolitical risk analysis.
• Familiarity with following analysis and collection tools: Maltego, RiskIQ, SOCMINT, OSINT enginges, complex Boolean searches, MS Office suite (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel), use of secure research network.
  

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.