Protective Intelligence Analyst at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Inc. in San Mateo, California

Job Description:

The Protective Intelligence Analyst, assigned to one of Pinkerton's largest global clients, will be a vital member of the Investigations and Threat Management team. Through strategic analysis and in-depth assessments, this role spearheads open-source investigations, monitors potential threats, and evaluates risks that could adversely impact the client's employees, assets, and brand integrity. By delivering timely, concise intelligence reports furnished with practical recommendations, the Analyst plays a key role in informing and guiding the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to implement effective risk mitigation strategies. The Analyst utilizes a proactive approach, anticipating security challenges, and providing the GSOC with actionable insights essential to maintaining safety and operational continuity in a complex risk landscape.

Essential Functions:

1. Represent Pinkerton's core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
2. Conduct open-source intelligence gathering and investigations to support protective intelligence initiatives.
3. Analyze and assess travel risks, event security, and executive protection needs to ensure the safety of the client's personnel and operations.
4. Research and provide insights on emerging threats identified by internal partners and determine potential impact on the organization.
5. Develop and implement intelligence collection plans to collect pertinent data on potential and actual threats that could affect the organization while drawing insights to inform the investigations and threat management team's priorities.
6. Utilize advanced analytical techniques and software to conduct threat, vulnerability, and risk assessments and provide critical support to investigations to ensure findings are clearly articulated and relevant to ongoing cases.
7. Serve as a liaison between the protective intelligence unit and the GSOC and offer real-time intelligence updates which enable rapid decision-making and response coordination during critical incidents.
8. Contribute to the creation and maintenance of threat actor profiles and databases to improve the organization's understanding of potential adversaries to enhance the effectiveness of investigative analysis and the subsequent threat response.
9. Coordinate with the investigations and threat management team to ensure that intelligence-related activities align with broader security goals and assist in the development of security plans and emergency response procedures.
10. Facilitate and lead intelligence briefings for the GSOC and investigations team and foster a culture of information-sharing, collaboration, and informed threat assessment and management.
11. Engage in specialized research concerning industry-specific threats by integrating findings into the broader context of organizational risk and conveying relevant information to the investigations and threat management team for a unified security approach.
12. All other duties, as assigned.

Bachelor's degree and least three years of intelligence experience within law enforcement, military, intelligence, and/or a corporate setting. Pinkerton is an inclusive employer who seeks candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Competencies:

• Effective verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Able to evaluate, recommend, and develop policy, project initiatives, and operation methods.
• Able to identify and solve complex problems by analyzing raw data from multiple unrelated sources into a finished comprehensive products.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision and under adverse and stressful conditions.
• Client orientated and results orientation.
• Able to present and defend intelligence positions to a variety of audiences.
• Serve as a positive and effective team member.
• Able to quickly adapt as the external environment and organization evolves.
• Able to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Computer skills; Microsoft Office.

With or without reasonable accommodation, requires the physical and mental capacity to effectively perform all essential functions;

• Regular computer usage.
• Occasional reaching and lifting of small objects and operating office equipment.
• Frequent sitting.
• Must be able to work any shift including evenings, weekends, and holidays to ensure the successful completion of work assignments.
• Travel, as required.

Benefit options include employer-paid life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D, medical, (HSA) Health Savings Account, (FSA) Flexible Savings Account, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(K), paid time off (vacation, personal, sick, and holidays) and several employee assistance-related programs. This information provides a brief benefit overview. Upon the acceptance of an employment offer, the new employee will receive comprehensive plan details based on specific eligibility rules.

Pinkerton is an equal opportunity employer to all applicants and positions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital/prenatal status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, religion, creed, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any protected status by local, state, federal or country-specific law.