Manager & Strategic Intelligence

Warner Scott Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK seeks an experienced professional to manage strategic intelligence investigations across Europe. The role involves designing investigative inquiries, engaging sources, and producing high-quality deliverables for clients, necessitating fluency in English and relevant professional experience of at least four years. Candidates with additional language skills will have an advantage, making this a unique opportunity for those with strong analytical abilities and commercial awareness.

Qualifications

• At least four years of professional experience, including two years leading consulting projects.
• Strong understanding of business, political, and regulatory trends across Europe.
• Additional language skills such as French or Spanish are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic intelligence investigations across Europe.
• Design investigative lines based on assessed risks and opportunities.
• Prepare and deliver commercially focused briefings to clients.
• Produce narrative-driven reports based on complex intelligence.

Skills

Fluent English

Commercial awareness

Analytical ability

Excellent communication skills

Job description

The Role

You will independently manage strategic intelligence investigations across Europe, taking responsibility for projects from scoping through delivery.

Included Responsibilities

• Designing and structuring investigative lines of inquiry based on your assessment of commercial, regulatory and political risks and opportunities.
• Identifying and engaging human sources within and beyond the firm's network, and developing strategies for effective source outreach.
• Defining and overseeing open-source research requirements and supervising analysts conducting research.
• Evaluating theacio credibility, relevance and provenance of human source intelligence.

Client Engagement & Delivery

• Preparing and delivering clear, commercially focused verbal briefings.
• Managing high‑pressure interactions with private equity spiegel investors, multinational corporates, legal teams and senior executives.
• Producing high‑quality written deliverables that synthesise complex intelligence into actionable insight, including:
  • Analysing and contextualising risks and opportunities within broader sector and geographic trends.
  • Creating clearly structured, narrative‑driven reports for commercial audiences.

Developing the Firm's Intelligence Capability

• Identifying, vetting and cultivating relationships with prospective human sources across multiple sectors and geographies.
• Supporting the team's wider source‑development strategy.

Qualifications & Capabilities

• Exceptional fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• At least four years of professional experience, including aKm minimum of two years leading consulting projects or workstreams involving commercial, regulatory and/or political analysis.
• A strong foundational understanding of key business, political and regulatory trends across Europe.
• Additional major business language skills (firstname Japanese French or Spanish) are an advantage.

Key Competencies

• High commercial awareness, with the ability to quickly understand business models, value chains and associated commercial, regulatory and political risks.
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• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.
• Sound professional judgement in project execution and client management.
• A proactive, self‑starting approach with the ability to deliver high‑quality work with minimal supervision.
• Developing people‑management capability is desirable.