Associate Director - Built Environment

To act as a subject matter expert for built environment security and risk management including opportunity origination, conversion, and delivery of real estate and infrastructure risk consulting projects.

The successful applicant will be a part of our Middle East team, supporting clients in Saudi Arabia and across the region as part of our broader EMEA team of over 100 crisis and security consultants.

• Undertaking fee earning consultancy, including but not limited to built environment security consulting, security master planning, security risk assessments (site/project/supply-chain/business), security policy and planning consultancy, benchmarking and maturity assessments, security risk workshops, and applying relevant built environment risk management knowledge, tools, standards, and processes
• Contribution to built environment security and risk consulting projects in the region to ensure compliance with Control Risks polices, standards, and methodologies as well as drawing on international leading practices
• Client liaison, as a trusted advisor for Control Risks in order to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities
• Act as a thought leader and mentor to junior personnel working within and across the range of built environment security, risk, and design consulting services
• Ensure requests from clients and prospects are dealt with effectively
• Creating proposals and building project budgets to define scope and determine pricing prior to sign-off by designated managers
• Provide accurate information on pipeline activity
• Operational planning and management of engagements, including quality oversight of operational and document-based deliverables and compliance with Control Risks policies, standards and methodologies
• Operational responsibility for and collaborative input into performance management of team members
• Coordination and support to regional tasks as necessary
• Maintain overall quality oversight of operational and written work
• Adopt innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions
• Act as a thought leader and coordinate with peer group across the business