Emergent Risk International
Website:
emergentriskinternational.com
Job details:
ERI is seeking a Global Intelligence Lead to serve as the central node in a global network designed to anticipate, assess, and respond to any threat to the company’s people, assets, operations or reputation. This position will help to build the future of intelligence and security operations for an integrated multi-national company uniting intelligence analysis, security operations, travel safety and other intelligence needs of the client. This is an embedded analyst position with a client.
The ideal candidate brings a can-do, forward-looking attitude, impeccable judgment, experience with building intelligence programs and responding to both tactical and strategic security threats, analytical rigor, and leadership presence — driving a proactive security posture that supports the company’s mission, business continuity, and strategic decision-making worldwide.
This is NOT a cyber security or technical role.
About Us
Emergent Risk International (ERI), is a global strategic intelligence advisory firm focused on business-centered risk and resilience. Specialized in geopolitical, regulatory and security risks in global business, ERI provides subscription intelligence and analysis, embedded services, training, and consulting to the world's leading organizations. For over a decade, ERI has delivered trusted geopolitical insights, trained thousands of intelligence professionals, set standards, and led the way.
Every team member of ERI is a brand guardian of the business, and the core values and principles we follow and expect of others are:
- Ethics First. Always
- Impactful. Future Forward
- Innovative by Design
- People-centered. Passion-fueled
- Learning Together. Leading Together.
Role and responsibilities
The Global Intelligence Lead will be the first in a series of new positions dedicated to building a first-in-class intelligence and operations team. This position is designed to address today’s intelligence needs, as well as assist with planning and logistics for expansion. Among those duties, this candidate will be responsible for:
Intelligence & Analysis:
- Produce forward-looking, actionable intelligence and risk assessments that inform executive decisions at both the tactical and strategic level.
- Conduct proactive research using open-source tools, vendor platforms, and social media to identify business risks from geopolitical, security, and any other issue affecting the client's global operations.
- Develop an expert understanding of the client’s business model, assets, operations and locations, ensuring that all intelligence and reporting is tailored to the client’s specific needs.
Leadership:
- Ability to efficiently and effectively lead a team of globally distributed intelligence analysts in line with client requirements and best practices.
- A mature and self-driven leadership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, taking initiative and identifying product, training or tooling gaps.
- Ability to receive direction and constructive feedback and implement product or program changes as required.
- Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Fostering a positive service-level mindset within the team towards the client.
- Ensuring team compliance with client and ERI policies and procedures.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build trusted relationships with the client and internal stakeholders, developing a thorough understanding of their priorities, risk appetite, and decision-making needs.
- Proactively identify stakeholder concerns and anticipate intelligence requirements before they are formally raised.
- Collaborate with sector-specific information sharing groups, public-private partnerships, and external subject matter experts to enrich analysis and broaden situational awareness.
- Communicate findings clearly and confidently, including briefings to non-technical audiences and senior leadership.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Over time the successful analyst’s role may expand to assist in selecting, training and mentoring a globally distributed team of intelligence analysts, threat monitors, watch officers, and operational security professionals.
- Leading daily and weekly operations meetings to review global threat posture, workflow performance, and emerging risks.
- Develop, document, and enforce GSOC standard operating procedures and escalation frameworks.
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders across Executive Protection, Corporate Security, HR, Legal, Business Continuity, and regional business units.
- Serve as an executive advisor during high impact events — assisting decision-makers through clear threat communication and business impact framing.
- Champion innovation within the GSOC through adoption of new tools, AI-driven analytics, and process automation aimed at improving speed and foresight.
- Support crisis response and surge capacity across the global team, including occasional out-of-hours availability.
Intelligence Production
- Conduct research using open-source tools, vendor platforms, and social media to produce timely, high-quality analysis on geopolitical, security, and business risks affecting the client's global operations.
- Track threats and risk trends at tactical, operational, and strategic levels, ensuring outputs are appropriately calibrated for each audience — from site security teams to senior leadership.
- Develop and maintain deep situational awareness of global risks which may impact client's business operations, including conflict, supply chain disruption, civil unrest, labor issues, climate-related disruption, political instability, regulatory or legislative changes, and organized crime.
- Produce concise, well-structured intelligence products that contextualize risk within business operations.
- Additional tasks as necessary.
Qualifications
Experience: 8+ years in global intelligence, operations, or corporate security roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity within a GSOC or similar environment.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence, International Relations, Security Studies, or similar discipline (Master’s preferred).
Capabilities:
- Expertise in incident management and intelligence tradecraft (collection, information verification, analysis, dissemination).
- Experience in training development and delivery.
- Strong command of OSINT methodologies, risk analysis tools, and security technology integration.
- Proven ability to lead global teams, set and achieve team performance standards, and drive accountability through KPI’s and metrics.
- Ability to analyze and visualize data to surface meaningful patterns, support risk assessments, and accurately communicate complex findings.
- Excellent critical thinking, writing, editing and verbal briefing skills for executive level‑ audiences.
- Experience managing crisis communications and decision support under pressure and time constraints.
- Integrity, discretion, and commitment to ethical intelligence practice.
- Demonstrable experience in project or program management.
- Experience with team management and maintaining shift rosters across multiple time zones – ensuring no gaps in coverage.
Other Requirements:
- Eligible to legally work in the country where the role is located.
- Successful completion of background and credential screening.
- Availability to support after-hours operations‑ and international travel as needed.
- Successfully complete all ERI training, mentorship, and other ERI initiatives as appropriate.
- Regularly attend ERI Global Team Meetings, webinars and engage with other ERI analysts.
Location & Remuneration
Location: Bangalore, India, fully onsite and in office Mon-Fri.
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week. Occasional availability outside business hours required, including 24/7 crisis response capability. The role will be remote initially requiring a self starter and pro-active communicator with a dedicated home-work space.
Compensation: Compensation commensurate with experience and role scope. Includes professional development and access to ERI’s proprietary training and analytic tools.
How to Apply
Submit your resume, cover letter, and writing sample demonstrating analytical or leadership capability to ERITalent [at] emergentriskinternational.com. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to every application and will be in contact with selected candidates only.
ERI is an equal opportunity‑ employer committed to inclusion and professional integrity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. To be considered for the position, all applicants must be and must independently possess eligibility to work in the country where the role is located.
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