Job Description

We are looking for a Junior Intelligence Analyst. The Junior Intelligence Analyst is considered a crucial role in the front line defense of Booking Holdings in protection of their, and the brands’, people, customers, partners and assets. The Intelligence team falls within the wider Booking Holdings Group Security and Resilience team, a dynamic, lean team requiring hands-on support in day to day safety, security and resilience operations. 

The analyst will perform global (active) monitoring, conduct research, including location risk assessments, analysis of geopolitical events, and identifying developing trends, also giving presentations regarding these. When required, they may also need to triage incoming safety and security cases, following pre-defined actions and utilizing OSINT skills to assist a wide range of stakeholders, from travel security, to health and safety, PR, office management, crisis management and everything in between.

The successful candidate will deliver analytical assessments in clear, succinct, and appropriately caveated products that project credibility, convey recommendations, and reinforce key messages.  Along with advancing our shared services offering in line with Booking.com and Booking Holdings the candidate needs to reduce cross brand friction to allow higher quality and efficiency.

B.Responsible

Monitoring

• Monitor local and global events that may impact Booking.com, or sister brands’, people, operations, assets, reputation and stakeholders and provide periodic and timely reporting
• The analyst will perform global (active) monitoring, drawing on multiple vendors, as well as their own network, conduct research, assessment and analysis based on this, including identifying developing trends, and will triage incoming safety and security cases, both internal and external.
• Assist in maintaining, populating, and evaluating intelligence databases and sources

Analysis

• Collect, including through the establishment and monitoring of Boolean tripwires, assess, and organize intelligence and data into relevant, actionable reports
• Use understanding of global security environment to prioritize, filter, and assess the credibility of open source intelligence sources
• Support other Corporate Security teams, such as travel security, executive protection, events, investigations, counter-intelligence, and physical security, health and safety, fraud, internal investigations and PR, often utilising OSINT
• Follow and develop pre-defined actions to mitigate immediate threats, investigate possible security incidents and/or performs incident response actions, including escalating to other support groups within the wider security organization. 
• Set up the foundational base of the response team and their procedures
• Conduct event and location risk assessments as required 

SOP Response

• When required, espond to office safety and security events worldwide, such as fire alarms, workplace medical incidents, dawn raids, and other safety and security incidents requiring immediate support

Communications

• Produce insightful and actionable intelligence reports
• Rapidly communicates on triaging and incident response
• Produces situation reports 
• Present to a diverse array of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

Building Relationships

• Create and maintain a network of information sharing and partnering relationships
• Create strong partnerships with security and other critical teams across the Booking Holdings group and represent Booking.com Security at Group level.
• Follow and develop pre-defined actions to mitigate immediate threats, investigate possible security incidents and/or performs incident response actions, including escalating to other support groups within the wider security organization.

B.Skilled

• Minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience with strong understanding of corporate security / security governance bodies / intel / crisis management / risk management experience in a supportive role.
• Joint operations center/security operations center experience preferred
• General administration / project management skills (writing of plans, communicating with diverse stakeholders, tracking)
• Bachelors’ Degree in a relevant field (I.E. International Relations, Public/Business Administration, Homeland Security, Politics etc. or equivalent experience in academia, business or government.
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills, plus the ability to perform under pressure
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills; ability to effectively advise at all levels of the organization; 
• Genuine interest and curiosity around world events, with an understanding of how these may impact a corporate entity
• Ability to manage confidential and highly sensitive information with the highest levels of discretion and professionalism
• Excellent Google Suite, Microsoft Suite (especially Google slides / Excel) knowledge

B.Offered

• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com