Associate Director, Cyber Protect
Control Risks is seeking an experienced candidate to join its rapidly growing Cyber Protect team and be its first full time team member in Germany. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly capable truly global team of cyber experts and to play a critical part in shaping the DACH cyber protect offering.
The role requires a highly motivated and diligent client-facing individual who has experience in winning and delivering cyber advisory work for global clients and projects. The successful candidate will help develop our capability into the German and DACH markets. The candidate will need to demonstrate exceptional analysis, project management and business development skills. We require all staff to be a team-player who is results focussed and passionate about delivering high quality advice to some of the world’s largest firms.
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in a cyber security advisory role and will need to demonstrate deep understanding of the cyber security challenges facing our clients. The candidate will have an established track-record of delivering cyber security risk assessment projects to a diverse range of clients. They will also excel at communicating complex technology-driven issues to executives at the C-level.
You will be working closely with the sales team to generate leads, and be a central part of a multidisciplinary geo-market team with the perspective to become part of the geomarket leadership.
Role tasks and responsibilities
Managing and delivering client projects
- Meticulous delivery of high-quality services to the highest level of executive clients.
- Managing different types of client meetings and maintaining positive and respectful client relationships.
- Project management of multiple cyber risk advisory engagements (e.g. running kick-off meetings, refining outputs, developing recommendations).
- Delivering projects (e.g., helping clients understand which information assets are valuable for them, conducting cyber risk assessments against ISO and NIST standards, helping clients define target operating models).
- Working with key project stakeholders (e.g., gathering information from interviews, document reviews and presenting findings) while maintaining the confidence of the client through clear communication and good project management.
- Working with external technical partners to deliver integrated solutions and drawing out recommendations from their technical findings.
- Working with other departments within Control Risks on broader security projects.
- Provide flexible and responsive support as and when crisis management support is required and can be provided.
Business Development
- Prospecting for business finding new clients.
- Integrating with the DACH team finding new business from current clients.
- Managing and leading international proposals and bids.
- Project scoping and planning, to support pricing.
- Contributing to and building complex, multi-service line proposals.
- Cultivating long-term trusted relationships with clients.
- Participating in marketing to build the Control Risks brand. Supporting the growth of the practice
- Helping to refine our services, methodologies and approaches.
- Contributing to the professional development and training programme.
- Support and contribute innovative new products and service creation.
Requirements
- Fluency in both German and English (written and spoken).
- Demonstratable experience of cyber security risk management within an established consultancy.
- An undergraduate degree in a field related to security, information security, intelligence, or computer science.
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.