Overview
A global intelligence, cyber, and investigations firm is seeking a Manager/Associate Director to join its Lonon-based team.
The firm is hiring a Manager or Associate Director to join the firm’s Strategic Intelligence team for the Transatlantic region (UK and North America) based in London. The successful candidate will independently manage strategic intelligence projects, including reputational, commercial and policy/regulatory intelligence investigations, leveraging the firm’s global human source network.
The ideal candidate will be a strong analytical thinker with high levels of commercial awareness. Successful candidates will have a minimum of 4 years of professional experience, including at least 2 years of experience managing projects in the business intelligence sector or another field of consulting, including strategy and management, regulatory, or political risk and geopolitical consulting.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently managing strategic intelligence investigations across the UK, US and Canada, including by:
- Deciding on and structuring lines of inquiry based on their assessment of potential commercial, regulatory and political risks and opportunities;
- Identifying human sources in and outside of the firm’s network and drafting strategies to engage relevant sources;
- Defining, supporting and/or enabling requirements for research of open sources, and overseeing Analysts conducting the research;
- Assessing the credibility and provenance of human source intelligence;
- Debriefing clients (mainly private equity and multinational corporates), i.e.:
- Preparing verbal briefings tailored to commercial audiences following consulting best practices;
- Managing high-pressure client interactions in meetings with deal teams, legal teams and/or C-suites;
- Drafting written deliverables for clients, which includes:
- Synthesising, analysing and creating value from intelligence sources;
- Identifying and benchmarking risks and opportunities within the context of a wider sector or geography;
- Presenting clearly structured, narrative-driven reports to a commercial audience;
- Developing intelligence source networks, i.e.:
- Identifying, vetting and cultivating relationships with prospective human sources across several geographies and sectors; and
- Contributing to the team’s source development strategy.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Fluency in English at the highest level of written and verbal communication;
- A minimum of 4 years of professional experience, with at least 2 years of leading (workstreams of) consulting projects and producing commercial, regulatory and/or political analysis;
- Foundational understanding of the main business, political and regulatory trends across the UK and North America;
- Preferred: fluency in another major business language, such as French or Spanish;
Key Competencies
- High levels of commercial awareness, including an ability to quickly grasp a target company’s value chain and business model, and exposure to commercial, regulatory and political risks;
- Strong verbal and written communication skills;
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills;
- Robust professional judgement across the areas of project execution and client management;
- A self-starter mentality and ability to produce high-quality deliverables with minimal oversight; and
- Preferred: developing people management skills.
Company Benefits
- Salary: competitive, based on experience.
- Flexible working balance of home and office.
- Stakeholder employer pension contribution of 5%.
- Family friendly company – including enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private medical insurance including generous terms of cover for both medical hospital, dental and mental health support for you, your partner and children (subject to T&Cs of the policy).
- Life insurance – 4 x annual salary.
- 25 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
