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TechNET IT has partnered with a global professional body within the built environment industry, employing over 100,000 professionals worldwide. We are supporting them in their search for a Market Director - APAC, a strategic leadership role focused on regional growth and stakeholder engagement across Asia-Pacific.

Position: Market Director - APAC

Location: Hong Kong
Industry: Built Environment (Professional Services)
Organisation Size: 100,000+ global members

Role Overview

The Market Director - APAC will spearhead the organisation's strategic direction, partnerships, and market positioning throughout the APAC region. Reporting to the Chief Market Engagement Officer, this role ensures local relevance of global strategies and acts as a key voice in influencing public policy, professional standards, and industry collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead regional strategic planning, market development, and brand representation.

• Manage the regional team, operations, and budget aligned to the global corporate plan.

• Represent the organisation in external engagements, including media, conferences, and policy discussions.

• Cultivate and expand relationships with key stakeholders—government, corporate, academic, and membership bodies.

• Deliver commercial objectives including revenue targets, membership growth, and partnership success.

• Collaborate with global colleagues to shape regional delivery of digital, educational, and professional initiatives.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven leadership in regional business development, market expansion, and stakeholder engagement within the professional or membership services sector.

• Experience in engaging senior government, industry, and academic stakeholders.

• Strong commercial acumen, with responsibility for budget and revenue outcomes.

• Excellent communication, advocacy, and public speaking abilities.

• Familiarity with professional body environments and experience working in matrix organisations.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the built environment sector across APAC.

• Experience with membership growth or policy influence at a national or regional level.

• Fluency in a regional language in addition to English is an advantage.

Lead Security Architect - Contract

Location: London, Manchester, or Bristol (Hybrid/Flexible Working)

Duration: 9 months

Clearance Required: Eligible for SC clearance or above
 

Overview:

We are partnering with a high-profile public sector digital team to support the hire of a Lead Security Architect. This team plays a critical role in safeguarding public-facing digital infrastructure and domain environments, working at scale to identify and mitigate cyber risk.

This role sits within a specialist team focused on securing domain name spaces, digital services, and infrastructure across the public sector landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct risk-based analysis and assessment of cyber vulnerabilities across a diverse digital estate.
• Translate technical findings into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead stakeholder engagement efforts to support the resolution of identified cyber vulnerabilities.
• Build and nurture effective working relationships across the wider public sector.
• Collaborate with government cyber coordination teams to drive a unified approach to cyber defence.
• Continuously improve internal processes and tooling to enhance threat monitoring and incident response.
• Mentor and upskill team members to help scale architectural capability.
• Drive Secure by Design principles and shape architectural standards across platforms and services.

Core Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in secure system design, architecture, and cyber resilience.
• Strong knowledge of current cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies (including OWASP).
• Expertise across infrastructure, network, application, and cloud security architecture.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills - able to influence, guide, and advise senior leaders.
• Familiarity with security tooling, patterns, and the broader cybersecurity product landscape.
• Strong written communication skills - capable of creating actionable and accessible technical content.
• Experience delivering knowledge transfer and training to internal teams.