Investigator

ABOUT THE ROLE 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. RESPONSIBILITIES • 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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • 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, intelligence, protective security, law enforcement, military security, counter-intelligence, fraud investigations, or supply chain security may be considered in lieu of a degree. • Demonstrated experience managing investigations from initial lead through evidence collection, analysis, findings, reporting, and recommended actions. • Experience conducting protective security, security risk, or vulnerability assessments involving personnel, facilities, information, suppliers, or operational environments. • Strong investigative research skills, including the use of open-source intelligence techniques, relationship mapping, information validation, and source assessment. • Experience preparing investigative reports, intelligence assessments, and executive-level presentations. • Strong analytical, interviewing, report-writing, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and maintain strict confidentiality.