Job Description

Responsibilities

• Strengthen Crisis Management: Oversee the continuous enhancement of a sustainable crisis management and business continuity program, ensuring its effectiveness through regular training and audits.
• Advise Leadership: Maintain strong working relationships with BU leadership teams by providing expert consultation and support.
• Conduct Risk Assessments: Plan and oversee security risk assessments and annual reviews at BU sites to pinpoint critical vulnerabilities and implement cost-effective, best-practice enhancements.
• Mitigate New Venture Risks: Analyze security threats associated with new business initiatives and propose risk-based mitigation strategies.
• Build External Relationships: Develop and maintain productive relationships with national and local security agencies, emergency response teams, law enforcement, regulatory bodies, and security directors from other multinational companies.
• Manage CAPEX: Deliver a BU-aligned security capital expenditure plan that ensures effective and efficient security spending.
• Promote Awareness: Develop and implement comprehensive security awareness and training programs.
• Respond to Incidents: Provide timely advice and assistance before, during, and after security incidents including on-the-spot risk assessments and support for business travellers.
• Secure the Supply Chain: Implement strategic measures to strengthen the protection of our supply chain.
• Investigate Security Threats: Lead investigations into issues such as counterfeit products, extortion, product contamination, loss reduction, kidnapping, robberies, fraud, corruption, and other threats impacting the sectors interests and personnel.
• Develop Talent: Ensure the continuous professional development of the sector security team, including identifying future leaders as part of long-term succession planning.
• Support Executive Protection: As needed, assist the Corporate Security Executive Protection program by providing pre-travel logistical support and operational assistance to executive leadership when required.

• A minimum of a university-level Bachelors degree (or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of the ISO 31000 Risk Management standard.
• Working knowledge of the ISO 22301 Business Continuity standard.
• A minimum of 10-15 years of direct security experience in the public and/or private sectors.
• Comprehensive, substantive expertise of best security practices and principles.
• Advanced, proven broad executive skills and experience in security management, risk management, protective services, investigations, and law enforcement.
• Capital and operational budget formulation and administration.
• Excellent working proficiency of written and spoken English
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

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