Control Risks exists to make our clients succeed. We are a specialist risk consultancy that helps to create secure, compliant and resilient organisations in an age of ever-changing risk.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Associate Consultant - CSC
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Summary
This is a high-profile role that requires the ability to deliver complex consulting tasks as part of the CRC team in WA.
The focus of the role will be on delivering and managing complex clients consulting tasks from scoping through project initiation, delivery and conclusion. It will also help drive growth of the other Control Risks services in the region.
Task and Responsibilities
Consulting and operational delivery:
The Consultant will be expected to deliver security and risks consulting tasks, with the particular emphasis on application of security management techniques in an African context.
Across West Africa the consultant will provide the delivery of:
Corporate security and resilience consulting tasks
Operational security consulting tasks
Operational delivery task including short term embedded roles
Conduct quality assurance checks on other embedded consultants or other ongoing projects
Conduct executive protection assignments as required
Provide operational security support to other consultants delivering tasks in medium/high risk locations
Service multiple consultancy assignments concurrently utilising regional resources
Act as Engagement Manager and deliver on assignments
Support the development of innovative products and services that address client need, and that help maintain the Company at the forefront of the sector
Business Development:
Support delivery of competitive business strategies and well-crafted business plans designed to expand the Company’s standing with its Client
Consistently develop the Company’s positioning with its clients to enhance business development and secure higher fee-earning engagements
Pro-actively seek opportunity to develop projects and business
Increase business generated from clients across the practice region
Ensure that revenue targets are met and/or exceeded
Task Delivery:
Delivery of tasks for clients on time, on budget, to the highest standards
The role will involve travel to client sites and Control Risks offices (particularly in West Africa)
The incumbent may also be required to undertake crisis management related activities and wider crisis and security consulting tasks as directed
Requirements
An understanding of security risk management, business resilience, and the dynamics of a consultancy practice within the sector
Extensive and demonstrable experience of operating within a commercial consulting environment
Proven experience of successfully driving teams to reach the strategic and operational goals
Commercially astute when planning and pricing project in terms of time, resource and outcomes
Proven experience of effectively managing a consulting team to perform highly and meet / exceed given targets.
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.