Executive Protection Lead

Sportradar; Winkeln; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sportradar is seeking a Protective Services Lead to coordinate global Protective Services, including Executive Protection, Travel Risk Management, and Protective Intelligence. The role requires leading across security, risk, and operational functions to safeguard executives and critical business activities.

You will develop policies, playbooks, and training to elevate resilience, while ensuring compliance and discreet protection across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Experience in close protection for senior executives or high-profile principals.
• Background in military, law enforcement, or private executive protection environments.
• Extensive international travel experience and itinerary coordination.
• Defensive driving skills and secure transportation provisions.
• Knowledge of protective intelligence, threat assessment, and incident management.
• Ability to work independently under pressure with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee executive protection, travel, accommodation, transport, and event security.
• Develop travel security briefings, threat assessments, and protective guidance.
• Source and manage third-party protective services providers and vendors.
• Establish KPIs and quality measures for consistent service delivery.
• Coordinate protective services across security, risk, and operational functions globally.
• Prepare post-incident reviews and continuous improvement actions.

Skills

Close Protection

Executive Security

Travel Security

Defensive Driving

Threat & Risk Management

Operational Flexibility

Discretion & Professionalism

International Experience

Availability for Travel

Languages: German & English

Education

Professional security training/qualifications

Job description

We're the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

The Role

Protective Services safeguards people, operations, and business-critical activities through intelligence-led security capabilities that protect employees, executives, and corporate operations globally. The function delivers a range of integrated protective services, including:

• Executive Protection
• Protective Intelligence and Risk Assessment
• Travel Risk Management (TRM)

Through these capabilities, Protective Services enhances employee and executive safety, reduces travel and operational risk, strengthensorganisationalresilience, and protects sensitive business activities, information, and strategic operations. The function enables business leaders tooperateconfidently in complex environments through the proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of risk.

The Protective Services Lead is responsible for the coordination, delivery, and continuous improvement of Sportradar'sProtective Servicesfunction. The role works across security, intelligence, risk, and operational functions to ensure effective protection measures are implemented globally, while supporting executive protection requirements and critical business activities.

Responsibilities

Executive Protection

• Maintain executive risk profiles and ensure protection measuresremainproportionate, effective, and discreet.
• Coordinate executive security support, including travel, accommodation, transportation, event security, and contingency planning.
• Manage security-related incidents affecting executives and coordinate post-incident reviews and lessons learned activities.
• Deliver executive security awarenessprogrammescovering topics such as personal security, secure communications, social media exposure, and residential security.
• Develop travel security briefings, executive guidance, and threat assessments.
• Source, vet, manage, and evaluate third-party protective services providers and specialist vendors.
• Establish operational standards, KPIs, and quality measures to ensure consistent service delivery.
• Ensure vendorscomply withlicensing, insurance, privacy, and contractual requirements.

Close Protection (up to 90 Days per Year)

• Provide close protection support for designated principals, during travel, events, and other activities.
• Conduct advance planning, routeselection, venue assessments, and contingency planning.
• Maintain situational awareness and assess emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate with venues, transport providers, security teams, law enforcement agencies, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Respond effectively to security, safety, and medical incidents.
• Produce post-deployment reports and recommendations to support continuous improvement.

Protective Services Coordination

• Coordinate and oversee the delivery of Protective Services activities, including Travel Risk Management, Executive Protection, TSCM deployments, Protective Intelligence, and risk assessments.
• Develop,maintain, and continuously improve policies, procedures, standards, and operational playbooks.
• Produce regular reports, updates, and risk briefings for senior stakeholders.
• Monitor legal, regulatory, and industry developments affecting Protective Services activities.
• Act as the primary coordination point between Integrity Services, Physical Security, Information Security, Engineering, Legal, Risk, People, and Corporate Communications.
• Translate intelligence and risk information into practical recommendations and mitigation measures.
• Coordinate cross-functional preparedness reviews, exercises, and security planning activities.

Required Background & Experience

• Close Protection / Executive Security: Demonstrated experience providing close protection, executive security or travel security services, senior corporate executives, VIPs or other high-profile principals.
• Professional Background: Previous experience in military, law enforcement, specialist security or established private executive protection environments is highly desirable, supported by relevant professional training and qualifications.
• International Travel Security: Extensive experience supporting principals during domestic and international travel, including advance planning, security assessments, secure transportation, itinerary coordination and management of local security providers.
• Protective Driving: Proven experience in security driving, including defensive driving techniques, route planning and the provision of discreet, secure transportation.
• Threat & Risk Management: Strong understanding of protective intelligence, threat assessment, situational awareness, emergency response and incident management, with the ability to anticipate and mitigate risks proactively.
• Operational Flexibility: Demonstrated ability to operate independently, make sound decisions under pressure and adapt to rapidly changing schedules, environments and security requirements.
• Discretion & Professionalism: Exceptional interpersonal skills, sound judgement and absolute discretion. Ability to maintain a low-profile security presence without unnecessarily disrupting the principal's activities.
• International Experience: Experience operating across multiple international jurisdictions, with an understanding of differing security environments, cultural sensitivities and local operating considerations.
• Availability: Willingness and ability to undertake frequent international travel, work irregular hours and remain flexible to changing operational requirements, including travel at short notice.
• Languages: Fluency in German and English, both written and verbal

Additional Information

At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) - we believe skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!