Executive Protection Lead

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.

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

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 forthe 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 vendors comply with licensing, 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, route selection, 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…