# Principal, Geopolitical and Country Risk (m/w/d)

**Company**: Control Risks
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As Principal, you will lead and grow Control Risks' Europe & CIS Geopolitical & Country Risk (GCR) practice, providing strategic direction, client leadership, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leadership of the GCR Europe & CIS Practice: Lead the strategy, growth, and performance of the Europe & CIS GCR practice, ensuring revenue, profitability, and delivery targets are achieved.

- Oversee complex, high-value consulting engagements, including cross-service line and multi-regional projects involving senior client stakeholders.

- Support analytical leadership on political, regulatory, and security developments across the region.

- Drive innovation through the development and rollout of new products, services, and solutions.

People Leadership:

- Lead, develop, and mentor the Europe & CIS team through effective performance management, coaching, and role-modelling collaborative leadership and wellbeing.

Business Development:

- Meet personal and team sales origination targets through client engagement, thought leadership, conference participation, and development of integrated solutions.

- Build and maintain senior client relationships, strengthen market positioning, and identify new opportunities across existing and prospective clients.

Business Management:

- Manage the practice efficiently, maintaining financial discipline, target margins, and robust operational oversight.

Brand & Market Presence:

- Represent Control Risks externally through media, conferences, thought leadership, and social media engagement.

Risk Management:

- Protect the firm's reputation by ensuring appropriate risk assessment, governance, and escalation of potential issues.

Requirements:

- Master's degree or equivalent (in relevant subject matter).

- Significant full-time professional experience in winning and delivering political risk intelligence and advisory consulting on highly regulated, policy-sensitive sectors.

- Access to a large network of reliable, credible sources in European policy communities.

- Excellent communication, listening and negotiation skills in English and preferably at least one other European language.

- Experience in public speaking, including larger audiences.

- Advanced analytical and report writing skills in English.

- Excellent knowledge and demonstrated experience in applying methodologies for political risk analysis.

- Demonstrable experience selling consulting services to international clients.

- Strong project management skills & demonstrable ability to multi-task and manage multiple commitments under time pressure.

- Demonstrable commercial acumen when planning and pricing projects.

- Willingness to travel for work.

Benefits:

- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package.

- Discretionary global bonus scheme.

- Hybrid working arrangements.

- Equal opportunities employer.

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## Skills

### Required
- political risk analysis
- consulting
- project management
- analytical skills
- report writing
- communication skills
- negotiation skills
- public speaking

### Nice to have
- German
- other European languages

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