Regional Security Director, Americas

Location: Remote, United States
Relocation: No; this is a remote position.

This Americas security leadership position is an amazing opportunity to join a multinational manufacturing organization. You will provide dedicated security support to the organization’s businesses and operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This job is perfect for you if you have a diverse professional, technical, and legal background and want to advance your security career with an industry leader.

Responsibilities

Leadership
– Manage a small, regional professional team focused on security, resilience, and crisis management.
– Partner cross-functionally with business management leadership.
– Foster invaluable relationships with law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
– Manage outsourced security vendors.

Resiliency and Incident Response
– Develop a strategy-based approach to identification and response to critical incidents.
– Coordinate and provide incident response.
– Train personnel in local crisis response teams.
– Support standards that limit exposure, liability, and reputational risk.

Risk Management
– Provide subject matter expertise to senior management.
– Expand a culture of security awareness and prevention of security incidents.
– Contribute to the development of group security strategies.

Protective Services
– Conduct a wide variety of investigations in support of internal operations and external threats.
– Aid in the protection of intellectual property and trade secrets through innovation.
– Support security risk evaluations.

Intelligence
– Develop intelligence related to internal and external threats to regional operations.
– Evaluate and proactively model threats to people, processes, and intellectual property.
– Brief leadership on emerging issues.

Human Capital
– Develop protection protocols for leadership both onsite and remote.
– Manage and enhance domestic and international travel and event security programs.
– Foster awareness of security related concerns through development and delivery of education initiatives.

Physical Security
– Develop and support innovative processes to protect tangible and intangible assets.
– Extensively travel within the region in support of site surveys and compliance with local regulations.
– Implement efficiency in regional site security programs.

Essential Skills

You Have:

• An academic degree with a commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Operational expertise derived from a combination of experience in both the public and private sectors.
• Senior-level experience with strategic responsibilities.
• Leadership composure and a settling influence during crisis.
• The ability to travel internationally, sometimes on short notice.

Core Competencies

You Are:

• An experienced security professional with strong leadership skills.
• Skilled at development and management of solutions based on critical analysis.
• A decision maker and problem solver who is viewed as an ethical, highly trusted source of advice and solutions.
• Action oriented with strong planning and process management skills and the ability to set goals and organize resources to achieve objectives efficiently and effectively.
• Organizationally and politically savvy with the knowledge of how to drive consensus both formally and informally.
• A clear communicator who ensures information is responsive, correct, and leads to accurate decisions.
• A good judge of people with an understanding of the impact and sensitivity of security issues.
• An active listener with strong investigative skills.
• A collaborative leader who builds rapport with diverse audiences.
• Dedicated to meeting the expectations of internal and external customers while earning their trust and respect.

We know…This is a lot of information about this fantastic job! If you are interested, want to contribute, and feel you have differing security skills and competencies that would be a good match, please let us know. If this isn’t your dream job, there may be another one we’re recruiting for that is. Don’t miss an opportunity to let us know about you!

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