Senior Intelligence Manager – UK, Europe & Eurasia

This fascinating role will engage with a broad range of people and businesses across the company, from the front line to the executive team. You will need to have subject matter expertise in the FSU and European security affairs, have strong analytical skills and be excellent briefer, both written and oral.

This position will allow you to utilise your deep substantive knowledge of Europe and Eurasia, particularly the Caucasus (politics, history, culture, security, regional context) as well as also protest movements across Western Europe.  With intelligence experience gained in the public or private sectors, you will understand the intelligence cycle and its application in a commercial environment, enabling you to have a significant impact on some of our client’s most complex and strategically significant decisions.

Your primary responsibilities will include the delivery of the baseline threat assessment, written and oral strategic intelligence assessment for senior business and executive leadership, establishing and maintaining senior-level relationships inside and outside the company and line management of operational intelligence capabilities

Key accountabilities.

Maintain a regional portfolio to:

• Hold principal accountability for the company’s strategic view of ‘threats’ in the UK, Europe and Eurasia regions that would materially impact them at the Group-level.
• Directly support the security risk process through the ownership of baseline threat assessment process in the Unified Risk Picture: anticipate, monitor and communicate changing threat environments.
• Provide both oral and written strategic intelligence assessments of geopolitical dynamics that have or the potential to have a material impact on the company to senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Line management of operational intelligence analyst to support operational and tactical intelligence needs –

1. Set direction, assist prioritisation and provide regular feedback;
2. Utilise to enable proactive identification of emerging issues;
3. Responding to RFIs.

• Establish and maintain a broad range of senior-level relationships, inside the organisation and externally in order to:

1. Understand business priorities; anticipate and identify strategic intelligence requirements;
2. Support regional business units by working with them on commercial planning and key decision points to ensure appropriate intelligence support is provided for decision making;
3. Provide strategic and operational liaison and guidance to leaders, businesses and security and crisis management colleagues;
4. Ensure regular information flows with peers, governments, academia and NGOs;
5. Develop authoritative information sources and deepen subject matter expertise
6. Identify potential new information providers

Where are the key challenges?

• Operating in an ambiguous environment and using judgment to provide valuable analysis to the business.
• Communicating complicated issues in a concise and effective manner, understanding and properly balancing risk against business imperatives.
• Understanding global, regional and local interests and activities to ensure focus and usefulness of products and advisory services.
• Understanding and effectively navigate internal political landscapes to achieve the right outcome for the company.
• Managing the problem of information overload and ‘noise’ by continuously improving analytic tools and techniques.
• Balancing short term requirements with need to horizon scan and anticipate changing threat environments.