Investigator, Security, Information Security & Data Protection

At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

BEACON RED is seeking an experienced Investigator - Supply Chain Security & Protective Intelligence to strengthen our investigative and protective security capabilities. This role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and investigating threats to the integrity, security, and resilience of the supply chain. The successful candidate will conduct complex investigations, assess supplier integrity and security risks, identify hostile or malicious activity, and support the protection of personnel, facilities, technology, intellectual property, and corporate assets.

Working closely with procurement, legal, cyber security, operational security, and other stakeholders, this role will help detect and mitigate risks including fraud, corruption, counterfeiting, insider threats, hostile intelligence activity, and supply chain compromise.

• Conduct investigations into allegations and incidents involving suppliers, subcontractors, intermediaries, and third parties, including fraud, corruption, bribery, sanctions violations, counterfeit materials, product substitution, regulatory breaches, labor violations, cyber incidents, and other misconduct.
• Investigate suspected counterfeit, falsified, tampered, diverted, or non-conforming materials entering the supply chain.
• Assess supplier ownership structures, beneficial ownership, affiliations, subcontracting arrangements, and business relationships to identify undisclosed risks, conflicts of interest, or deceptive practices.
• Perform enhanced due diligence on high-risk and strategically important suppliers, including reviews of key personnel, directors, agents, intermediaries, and business partners.
• Identify indicators of concealed ownership, procurement manipulation, collusion, front companies, and other integrity concerns.
• Conduct supply chain risk assessments covering manufacturing origin, transit routes, end users, and geopolitical or regulatory considerations.
• Analyze procurement, logistics, financial, cyber, quality, and operational data to identify anomalies and investigate potential threats.
• Maintain comprehensive investigative records, evidence trails, source evaluations, and case documentation.
• Assess suppliers, contractors, and individuals for protective security and counter-intelligence risks.
• Investigate suspected insider threats, unauthorized disclosures, information leakage, suspicious relationships, and security compromises.
• Identify indicators of hostile intelligence activity, espionage, unauthorized access attempts, recruitment or targeting of personnel, and efforts to obtain sensitive information or technology.
• Support protective security investigations involving suspicious supplier behavior, unusual requests for information, unauthorized access, or other indicators of hostile interest.
• Develop intelligence assessments related to foreign interference, industrial espionage, economic espionage, organized crime, and hostile-state activities affecting the supply chain.
• Recommend and support the implementation of risk mitigation measures, including enhanced controls, monitoring activities, and protective security programs.
• Produce high-quality investigative reports, intelligence assessments, and executive-level briefings for stakeholders and decision-makers.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in corporate investigations, protective security, intelligence, law enforcement, military, security services, fraud investigations, supply chain security, or investigative due diligence.
• Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Studies, Supply Chain Management, International Relations, Criminology, Security Studies, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience in investigations,…