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A recruiter is currently seeking a Vice President/Head of Security and Crisis Management – America. The role could be remote based but there is a preference for the role to be based in Raleigh, NC our North America headquarters. Coaches, supports and provides specialist knowledge and advice to regional leadership on security matters and report on the performances of the respective organization. Contributes to the delivery of the security function’s plans, development of policies and ensure effective risk management through excellence. Leads and coordinates implementation of competent functional country support throughout the region. Provides point of contact and communicates with relevant stakeholders in security matters related to the assigned region and constituent countries. Collects, analyzes, and reports on performance to global and other relevant stakeholders, utilizing global security key performance indicators (KPIs). Oversees and leads process of tracking, assessing, and reporting on emerging security trends and related legislation. Ensures through inspections, audits and reviews respective geographical area of responsibility is compliant with security standards, regulations, and guidelines. Maintains internal and 3rd party SRA requirements for respective security organization. Contributes to effective risk management of security related issues in the assigned region by providing specialist knowledge and advice on key business decisions for the organization. Contributes to driving behavioral change to continuously improve security performance through coordinated global-wide performance improvement programs and initiatives. Facilitates the sharing of best practices and applies global standardized processes to deliver consistent security support within the organization. Engage external (e.g., customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders) and internal stakeholders to report on, raise awareness and gain commitment on the organization’s security efforts and performance and obtain objective feedback. Cooperates with other functions and business partners to improve security measures. Participates in defining the annual budget for area of responsibility and is accountable for managing performance against agreed financial targets and constraints. Defines regional security annual plans and ensures implementation of security and crisis management objectives within the respective region in alignment with the organization global security strategy. Provides short-, mid- and long-term security analyses on the developments within the region. Oversees serious security incidents and ensures root-cause analysis and corrective actions are identified and implemented. Maintains and supports an effective level of crisis resilience in the respective organization/region by supporting the overall organizational resilience model of the organization and coordinating as needed an effective response. Supports, contributes to and/or plans and executes security related projects in support of stakeholders. Develops and reports on project objectives. Manages project resources such as people power, financials, and other relevant factors. Manages, supports, contributes to and/or plans and executes security related requirements in the organization’s core global security programs. Develops and reports on core program objectives. Manages core program resources such as people power, financials, and other relevant factors. Ensures that the area of responsibility is appropriately organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates, and develops direct/indirect subordinates within the organization’s policies and Leadership 360 initiatives. Act as the regional coordinator for the Organization Resilience program. Provides governance, training and guidance in emergency response and business continuity. Act as the regional crisis coordinator by providing foundation for, and guide on, a structured and unified incident command management of large-scale disruptive events impacting on people and business operations. Regional crisis management is aligned with the global head of crisis management and the global crisis management program. The regional crisis coordinator supports the regional crisis management team leader prior to disruptive events by establishing and train regional- and country crisis management teams in the region; during disruptive events act as regional crisis coordinator supporting the crisis management team with the crisis management process. Support global crisis response by acting as single point of contact and providing data to the global head of crisis management. Qualifications: Bachelors degree; 12 years professional experience in a relevant (security related) global organization Experience leading senior level leaders in a matrix organization. Fluent in English; Spanish and/or Portuguese fluency a plus ASIS Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification (or equivalent) required Project Management certification and/or experience preferred. GatedTalent consolidates jobs from a variety of sources. Users of the “Talentis” and “FileFinder” executive search CRMs are able to publish jobs to the site with links from inside their core business apps. These are supplemented by jobs added by our own researchers and those provided by a third party job aggregation service. Please note that GatedTalent staff are not directly involved in the recruiting process. #J-18808-Ljbffr Gated Talent

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