Director, Dispute Support, Apac

1 week ago

Central Singapore Control Risks Full time

Role purpose

When clients are engaged in disputes, Control Risks provides expertise to assess strategy, investigate facts, support settlement and assist with enforcement. With 40 global offices and 50 years of experience, we are experts in intelligence gathering, investigative analysis and complex problem-solving, regionally and globally.

Role tasks and responsibilities

Dispute strategy and management
- Manage and grow new and existing client relationships, with a focus on winning high-value, repeat mandates from law firms, in-house legal counsel and litigation funders.
- Play a lead role in developing our dispute support strategy for APAC, together with global senior colleagues and oversee delivery of dispute support mandates and complex project work.
- Lead our engagement in Singapore with industry associations and other professional advisors to improve the awareness of our brand and services.
- Lead on opportunity management and delivery of complex disputes work including proposals, project management, and client briefings.
- Ensure best-in-class execution and innovation around open-source research, source enquiries, and analysis.
- Play a leading role in developing our dispute support strategy alongside senior colleagues.

Business development
- Generate and lead client meetings and pitch disputes work to prospective clients (external counsel, in-house counsel, arbitration practitioners, litigation funders) in Asia, independently and in conjunction with local colleagues.
- Consistently develop the company’s position with its clients to enhance business development in close co-ordination with the other practice areas, and secure higher fee-earning engagements.
- Work closely with senior colleagues in Asia and the global disputes team to plan and execute strategies to raise Control Risks’ profile as a market leader for dispute support.
- Represent Control Risks at events and other business development functions and assist in developing Control Risks’ profile within and outside Asia.

Case work
- Oversee and execute multiple complex assignments, create project teams, and set plans, deliverables and project budgets.
- Collaborate with peers in other Business Intelligence practices to ensure our research is innovative, responsive and of high quality, identifying where technology could be best applied for research efficiencies or improvements in delivery.
- Manage output from direct reports: ensure rigorous quality control and the highest standards of service delivery.
- Ensure projects are priced, structured and managed effectively to deliver on profit and within margin targets.

Team management and culture
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment in cross jurisdictional project teams, drawing in the right resources on a case-by-case basis.
- Deliver and periodically review disputes and litigation support training across the Business Intelligence team.
- Identify and make recommendations for how to address any improvements in our internal skills and capabilities.
- Ensure that the team's legal and compliance requirements are understood and adhered to, including the implementation of associated training.

**Requirements**:

- At least ten years experience of working in disputes and investigations intelligence
- Ability to write and present concisely and convincingly
- Fluency in English and at least one other Asian language

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