Manager / Associate Director - Strategic Intelligence

The Role

You will independently manage strategic intelligence investigations across Europe, taking responsibility for projects from scoping through delivery.

Included Responsibilities

• Designing and structuring investigative lines of inquiry based on your assessment of commercial, regulatory and political risks and opportunities.
• Identifying and engaging human sources within and beyond the firm's network, and developing strategies for effective source outreach.
• Defining and overseeing open-source research requirements and supervising analysts conducting research.
• Evaluating theacio credibility, relevance and provenance of human source intelligence.

Client Engagement & Delivery

• Preparing and delivering clear, commercially focused verbal briefings.
• Managing high pressure interactions with private equity spiegel investors, multinational corporates, legal teams and senior executives.
• Producing high quality written deliverables that synthesise complex intelligence into actionable insight, including:
  • Analysing and contextualising risks and opportunities within broader sector and geographic trends.
  • Creating clearly structured, narrative driven reports for commercial audiences.

Developing the Firm's Intelligence Capability

• Identifying, vetting and cultivating relationships with prospective human sources across multiple sectors and geographies.
• Supporting the team's wider source development strategy.

Qualifications & Capabilities

• Exceptional fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• At least four years of professional experience, including aKm minimum of two years leading consulting projects or workstreams involving commercial, regulatory and/or political analysis.
• A strong foundational understanding of key business, political and regulatory trends across Europe.
• Additional major business language skills (firstname Japanese French or Spanish) are an advantage.

Key Competencies

• High commercial awareness, with the ability to quickly understand business models, value chains and associated commercial, regulatory and political risks.
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• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.
• Sound professional judgement in project execution and client management.
• A proactive, self starting approach with the ability to deliver high quality work with minimal supervision.
• Developing people management capability is desirable.