Manager, Strategic Intelligence Consulting, Europe

Alchemy is working work with a leader in strategic intelligence and investigations, that provides advice and analytical services to top-tier commercial and financial advisory firms, including Fortune 50 and FTSE100 companies. As part of their plans to further expand across Europe, they are looking for a Manager to guide and manage their intelligence projects.

The successful candidate will manage strategic intelligence projects, including reputational, commercial and policy/regulatory intelligence investigations, leveraging the company’s global human source network. This role demands strong analytical thinking with high levels of commercial awareness. Successful candidates will have a minimum of four years of professional experience, including at least two years of experience managing projects in the business intelligence sector or another field of consulting, including strategy and management, regulatory, or political risk and geopolitical consulting.

Role responsibilities:

• Managing strategic intelligence investigations across Europe, including:
• Deciding on and structuring project plans based on their assessment of potential commercial, regulatory and political risks and opportunities.
• Identifying human sources in and outside of the company's network and developing strategies to engage relevant sources.
• Defining requirements for research of public record information and overseeing Analysts conducting the research.
• Assessing the credibility and provenance of human source intelligence.
• Debriefing clients (mainly private equity and multinational corporates)
• Preparing and delivering verbal briefings tailored to commercial audiences
• Managing high-pressure client interactions in meetings with deal teams, legal teams and/or C-suites
• Drafting written deliverables for the company's clients, which includes, synthesising and analysing intelligence sources, identifying and benchmarking risks and opportunities within the context of a wider sector or geography.
• Presenting clearly structured, narrative-driven reports to a commercial audience.
• Developing intelligence source networks, i.e. Identifying, vetting and cultivating relationships with prospective human sources across several geographies and sectors and contributing to the team’s source development strategy.

Qualifications & capabilities:

• Fluency in English at the highest level of written and verbal communication
• A minimum of four years of professional experience, with at least two years of leading (workstreams of) consulting projects and producing commercial, regulatory and/or political analysis.
• Foundational understanding of the main business, political and regulatory trends across the Europe region.
• Preferred: fluency in another major business language, such as French or Spanish.