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Control Risks

Specialist risk consultancy ensuring secure operations

Associate Director - Cyber Threat Intelligence

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLondon, UK

About the Job

Requirements

  • The candidate should be highly motivated and autonomous, able to self-task and develop their own research.
  • The candidate should have a track record of originating and/or driving growth with intelligence clients, including delivering client engagements end to end and maintaining engagement after project delivery.
  • The candidate should have experience managing multiple concurrent consulting or intelligence engagements, including finance, project administration, and project resourcing across a portfolio.
  • The candidate should have a good level of intelligence experience in a relevant field in private or public sector organisations.
  • The candidate should have some experience in a commercial cyber security or Cyber Threat Intelligence setting.
  • The candidate should demonstrate academic or professional engagement in geopolitics, threat intelligence, and/or cyber security, with a clear understanding of the Americas threat landscape and its application to specific organisations.
  • The candidate should have experience briefing and pitching to senior audiences on cyber and intelligence topics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead delivery of strategic threat intelligence products for clients, ensuring high-quality, actionable outputs aligned with 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 deliverables are high quality and meet client requirements.
  • Maintain awareness of trends and developments relevant to current and prospective clients, and proactively seek opportunities to engage clients on relevant incidents, topics, and trends.
  • Drive strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence business growth, including originating client engagements, contributing to business-unit and service-line growth targets, and supporting significant cross-service-line opportunities.
  • Lead scoping of strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence requirements and contribute to scoping and winning complex global engagements; collaborate with Digital Risks and wider company teams to share work from Cyber Threat Intelligence-led engagements and draw opportunities from wider engagements.
  • Work with threat intelligence leadership and analysts to maintain a cohesive threat intelligence product capable of meeting holistic client security intelligence needs.
  • Generate and maintain collateral and materials for colleagues to engage clients and drive business development.
  • Demonstrate strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence and cyber security expertise for private-sector organisations across sectors, including awareness of emerging threats and trends relevant to clients and their technologies.
  • Deliver briefings to senior audiences across sectors and countries.
  • Share intelligence across Digital Risks and wider company departments to enable client deliverables and engagement with clients and prospects.
  • Apply understanding of geopolitical, technological, economic, and social drivers of cyber threats to produce forward-looking intelligence analysis.
  • Produce written outputs, PowerPoint presentations, and verbal briefings that explain threats in client-specific contexts, tailored to stakeholders and client maturity.
  • Produce marketing materials and public-facing analysis demonstrating Cyber Threat Intelligence capability and subject-matter expertise.
  • Create client and prospect collateral outlining threats to specific geomarkets and sectors, and communicating Cyber Threat Intelligence capabilities and value.
  • Manage consulting engagements end to end, tracking utilisation and realisation, setting up projects, managing income accruals and invoicing.
  • Review income, accruals, and invoicing across the project portfolio.
  • Explore technology and tooling to automate workflows and content and improve client deliverables and internal processes, with appropriate guardrails.
  • Maintain analytical rigour and a human-led approach, ensuring self and team are appropriately trained and aware of automation issues and risks.
  • Lead non-technology-driven content and process innovation to improve quality and margins.

Desired Qualifications

  • CTI qualifications, including CCTIM or experienced CRTIA, are preferred.
  • Practical knowledge and understanding of cyber security concepts and methods are preferred.
  • Practical experience in intelligence collection, analysis, and reviewing is preferred.
  • The ability to present technical information and analysis to a non-technical audience is preferred.
  • Experience in business development, marketing, or winning client work is preferred.
  • A degree or master's-level education, or equivalent significant work experience, in intelligence, cyber security, or a social science field such as Terrorism, Politics, International Relations, or Intelligence Studies is preferred.
  • Understanding of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools and techniques is preferred.
  • Intelligence analysis qualifications such as CREST, NIAT, GIAT, DIAM, or City and Guilds, or cyber security qualifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CLASS, are preferred.
  • Experience using Microsoft SharePoint tooling, including Power BI and Power Automate, is preferred.
  • Mandarin, Russian, Farsi, or Arabic language skills are preferred.
  • A background in Cyber Threat Intelligence, intelligence collection, or geopolitical risk analysis is desirable.
  • Familiarity with Maltego, RiskIQ, SOCMINT, open-source intelligence engines, complex Boolean searches, the Microsoft Office suite (particularly Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), and secure research networks is desirable.

About the Company

Control Risks

Specialist risk consultancy ensuring secure operations

Control Risks provides specialist risk consultancy that helps organisations become secure, compliant and resilient in a world of changing risks. It works across disciplines, technologies and geographies, delivering insight and intelligence to help clients focus resources, prepare for crises, resolve issues, and realise opportunities. Its approach emphasizes turning uncertainty into guidance and gives leaders reassurance from the boardroom to remote locations. Compared with competitors, it combines broad, cross-disciplinary risk expertise with global reach and actionable insights to bring order to chaos. The company’s goal is to help clients succeed by enabling sensible risk-taking and sustainable growth.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1975

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