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About the Role

Lead and grow Control Risks’ Europe & CIS Geopolitical & Country Risk (GCR) practice, providing strategic direction, client leadership, and operational excellence. The role combines practice leadership with hands-on delivery of complex advisory engagements for senior decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, growth, and performance of the Europe & CIS GCR practice, ensuring revenue, profitability, and delivery targets are achieved.
• Oversee complex, high-value consulting engagements, including cross-service line and multi-regional projects involving senior client stakeholders.
• Support analytical leadership on political, regulatory, and security developments across the region.
• Drive innovation through the development and rollout of new products, services, and solutions.
• Lead, develop, and mentor the Europe & CIS team through effective performance management, coaching, and role-modelling collaborative leadership and wellbeing.
• Meet personal and team sales origination targets through client engagement, thought leadership, conference participation, and development of integrated solutions.
• Build and maintain senior client relationships, strengthen market positioning, and identify new opportunities across existing and prospective clients.
• Manage the practice efficiently, maintaining financial discipline, target margins, and robust operational oversight.
• Represent Control Risks externally through media, conferences, thought leadership, and social media engagement.
• Protect the firm's reputation by ensuring appropriate risk assessment, governance, and escalation of potential issues.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent (in relevant subject matter).
• Minimum of 10 years of full-time professional experience in winning and delivering political risk intelligence and advisory consulting on highly regulated, policy-sensitive sectors, such as energy, infrastructure, defence, telecoms, healthcare/life sciences, financial services and/or digital technologies.
• Access to a large network of reliable, credible sources in European policy communities, think tanks, ministries, security agencies and from the business community.
• Excellent communication, listening and negotiation skills in English and preferably at least one other European language, ideally German.
• Experience in public speaking, including larger audiences (100+).
• Advanced analytical and report writing skills in English (and preferably one other European language).
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated experience in applying methodologies for political risk analysis (i.e. threat assessments, risk assessments, scenario development and planning); ability to develop bespoke methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge of risk management frameworks and understanding of how private businesses manage both strategic and operational risks in practice.
• Demonstrable experience selling consulting services to international clients.
• Strong project management skills & demonstrable ability to multi-task and manage multiple commitments under time pressure.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen when planning and pricing projects.
• Willingness to travel for work.

Skills

• Political risk analysis
• Risk management frameworks
• Project management
• Commercial acumen
• Public speaking
• Analytical skills
• Report writing
• Communication skills
• Listening skills
• Negotiation skills

Location

• Berlin
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• Principal
• 10+ years of experience

Education Level

• Master’s degree or equivalent

Benefits

• Competitively positioned compensation and benefits package
• Discretionary global bonus scheme

About the Company

• Control Risks is a global team of over 100 analysts and consultants providing geopolitical and country risk intelligence and advisory.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.