Director, Advisory and Risk Consulting

Client Delivery

• Advise clients on complex resilience management, security, crisis, business continuity and enterprise risk challenges, developing practical, sustainable approaches that can be understood and acted on by senior decision-makers.
• Act as a senior project manager and trusted client adviser for Control Risks’ resilience and risk consulting projects, including assessing, designing, implementing and improving corporate security, resilience and risk management programmes, acting as the primary client contact and managing multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Provide clients with expert support and insights on risk strategy, organizational structures, Enterprise Risk, Business Continuity, Crisis, Security, Cyber Risk, Digital Risk or Intelligence Management.
• Engage credibly with boards, executive committees and senior leadership teams, ensuring that business priorities are reflected in resilience and risk solutions and that recommendations are presented clearly, confidently and persuasively.
• Collaboratively scope complex and multidimensional resilience projects with clients, using strong relationship-building and social skills to bring in diverse Control Risks teams and position the firm effectively for follow-on work
• Own the full client delivery lifecycle from diagnostic assessment and solution design through implementation, stakeholder management, quality assurance and executive-level presentation of outcomes.
• Use delivery work to identify client priorities, unmet needs and follow-on opportunities.
• Manage engagement resourcing, budgets, margins and invoicing.

Requirements

Essential

• Significant work experience in a consulting firm.
• Direct, hands-on experience in selling and scoping consulting projects, including personally leading sales conversations, shaping client needs into project opportunities and converting those opportunities into won work
• Established network in the relevant industry and market, with a degree of external recognition or profile that enables credible senior-level client engagement and supports business development.
• Knowledge of best practices in resilience management, risk and security strategy, crisis preparedness, business continuity, organisational structures and executive decision-making under pressure.
• Demonstrated expertise in resilience management, including risk and resilience programme development, security and crisis management, business continuity and organisational resilience optimisation.
• Strong understanding of cyber and digital risks and how they intersect with resilience management, crisis preparedness, business continuity and senior-level risk decision-making.
• Knowledge of data-driven approaches and understanding the impact of AI on resilience
• Experience advising boards, executive committees and senior executives, including presenting complex recommendations in a compelling and commercially relevant way.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to structure, visualise and communicate strategic thinking clearly and persuasively.
• Business-level proficiency in German and English language.

Preferred

• Experience in multiple industries and client operating environments
• Ability to travel 50+% of the time and on short notice
• Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including strong social skills and the ability to build trust quickly with senior clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ownership, accountability and commercial resilience to drive success both within the team and across Control Risks.
• The ability to multi-task and balance competing requirements, including client-facing, business development related, and internal matters
• Committed, enthusiastic and commercially driven, with a “refuse to lose” attitude and a proactive approach to winning client confidence and new work.
• A high level of integrity, loyalty and discretion
• Willingness to learn and develop new skills
• Executive presence, board-level confidence and the ability to present ideas and recommendations in a compelling, visually clear and persuasive way.

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.

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