Executive Protection Lead
The Protective Services function at Sportradar 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, risk assessment, and travel risk management.
Through these capabilities, Sportradar enhances employee and executive safety, reduces travel and operational risk, strengthens organisational resilience, and protects sensitive business activities, information, and strategic operations. The function enables business leaders to operate confidently in complex environments through the proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of risk.
The Protective Services Lead is responsible for the coordination, delivery, and continuous improvement of the Sportradar Protective Services function. 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.
- Maintain executive risk profiles and ensure protection measures remain proportionate, 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 awareness programmes covering 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.
- Provide close protection support for designated principals, during travel, events, and other activities (up to 90 days per year).
- 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience providing close protection, executive security or travel security services, senior corporate executives, VIPs or other high-profile principals. (required)
- Previous experience in military, law enforcement, specialist security or established private executive protection environments. (preferred)
- Extensive experience supporting principals during domestic and international travel, including advance planning, security assessments, secure transportation, itinerary coordination and management of local security providers. (required)
- Proven experience in security driving, including defensive driving techniques, route planning and the provision of discreet, secure transportation. (required)
- Strong understanding of protective intelligence, threat assessment, situational awareness, emergency response and incident management. (required)
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently, make sound decisions under pressure and adapt to rapidly changing schedules, environments and security requirements. (required)
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, sound judgement and absolute discretion. (required)
- Experience operating across multiple international jurisdictions, with an understanding of differing security environments, cultural sensitivities and local operating considerations. (required)
- Willingness and ability to undertake frequent international travel, work irregular hours and remain flexible to changing operational requirements. (required)
- Fluency in German and English, both written and verbal. (required)
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.