Security Consulting Senior Manager

Employer: Control Risks

Location: Houston, Texas, United States


Job Description
Control Risks is an independent, specialist risk consultancy. We provide advice and services that enable our clients to accelerate opportunities and manage strategic and operational risks.
We are a medium sized, rapidly growing company. We offer a broad range of services to help clients manage the political, security, operational and integrity risks that come with doing business internationally.

Employer vision:
People should come to work with us because we provide real benefit to many of the world’s leading organizations. In doing so we give our people direct responsibility, career development and the opportunity to work on fascinating projects in a rewarding, diverse and enjoyable environment.

Job Purpose
We seek a manager and subject matter expert to join the Security Consulting practice. The Security Consulting practice sits within Control Risks’ Crisis & Security Consulting Department and is responsible for working with clients on tasks which increase their organizational ability to prevent risks from
occurring. This includes the management and servicing of complex physical security (Security Design and Solutions) and organizational security consulting (Security Risk Consulting) engagements in North America.
Importantly, the Senior Manager is both a manager, responsible for managing and growing the Security Consulting business in North America, and a subject matter expert, who is a fee-earning consultant with advanced experience and specific enhanced skills.

Tasks and Responsibilities
Management
 Manage and grow the Security Consulting (SC) practice for North
America, which covers the specialist areas of Security Risk
Consulting and Security Design & Solutions.
 Maintain primary responsibility for SC financial performance.
 Act as line manager for the SC team, based in Houston, TX and
provide positive support, coaching and training.
Case work
 As the security risk subject matter expert, deliver desktop and onsite
security risk assessments for corporate clients, asset identification,
risk mitigation consulting and implementation planning, Enterprise
Risk Management consulting and security plans, policies and
procedures development and implementation at both the strategic
and tactical levels.
 Ensure delivery of proposals, presentation, workshops and projects
in line with Control Risks’ standards, industry best practice and client
expectations.
 Lead and service complex and multi-faceted assignments as full
project manager responsible for entire project cycle.
Business development
 Grow existing client relationships and develop new opportunities.
 Work closely with Marketing and Business Development (Global
Client Services team) and Crisis & Security Consulting colleagues
within and outside of the Americas region to develop new business.

Knowledge and Experience
Essential
 At least eight years of experience in a business risk management or
consulting role.
 Prior experience developing and implementing security risk
management and security design programs.
 Proven ability to successfully manage and grow a consulting
business.
 Proven ability to successfully manage consulting professionals.
Preferred
 Knowledge of and experience in security technologies and
integration (CCTV, Access Control, Alarm Systems, Photo ID
Systems, Mass Notification, Incident Database Management, etc.).
 Experience and knowledge of corporate security and law
enforcement policies and procedures, crime prevention,
investigations, public safety training, and life safety programs.
 PSP and CPP certification.

Qualifications and Specialist Skills
 Minimum of a Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field or a
Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of relevant experience.
 Fluent in English (written and spoken).
 Spanish and/or Portuguese preferred, not essential.
 Excellent presentation skills.
 Excellent analytical skills.
 Excellent people management skills.
 Excellent time management skills.
 Experienced with Microsoft Office, inclusive of Word, Power Point and Excel (Visio preferred).
 Strong affinity with international political and security risk management.
 Strong team player with the ability and willingness to respond to unexpected developments quickly and maintain strong ability to prioritize correctly.
 Ability to work flexible hours due to on-call status.

How to apply
If your qualifications, experience and aspirations match our requirements please email a covering letter and C.V., stating your salary expectations to:
Americas.Recruitment@control-risks.com
The file name of your resume must coincide with your name. Please specify the vacancy you are applying for including the location in the subject of the email. Please consider that the interview process will be conducted in English.