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Security Manager, Global Corporate Security
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience3 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldSecurity / Intelligence 
Key job responsibilities
- Deliver best-in-class security services focused on enhancing the safety and security of all Amazon employees, contractors, and visitors.
- Be the trusted security advisor and subject matter expert in the assigned area of responsibility, through high quality communication and excellent briefing skills.
- Manage day-to-day security operations for a diverse portfolio of sites and customers with unique requirements.
- Implement security plans, policies, and programs in support of the team and organizational goals.
- Coordinate security incident response.
- Respond to customer security concerns.
- Monitor the external threat environments in the defined area and take measures to minimize security risk to the business to the dynamic security environment.
- Successfully align ACS metrics, goals, and strategic direction across the geographic area to support overall team mission.
- Earn trust through key customer and stakeholder engagements, and liaison with external partners.
- Communicate accurately and in a timely manner with stakeholders.
- Build and maintain close relationships with peers at other security functions at Amazon to exchange and share security concerns and collaborate on closing gaps and building best practices.
A day in the life
- Oversee guarding operations and hold guarding vendors accountable for the quality-of-service delivery. This includes identifying opportunities for cost efficiencies and frugality.
- Build relationships through coordination with internal and external security partners including local law enforcement.
- Monitor performance metrics to improve individual, team, system, and site performance.
- Conduct site security assessments and audits.
- Identify, escalate, and mitigate any potential gaps in security controls.
- Plan and lead drills, tabletop exercises, and other security readiness activities across sites.
- Deliver projects to ensure achievement of delivery of milestones to meet team goals.
- Implement effective, predictable, and measurable processes and procedures to be communicated clearly among Amazon stakeholders.
- Conduct initial incident investigations.
- Coordinate corporate security support to events.
- Support the maintenance and testing of business continuity plans.
- Conduct customer outreach and support organizational safety and security initiatives.
- Monitor physical security device installation, commissioning checks of new buildings; and ongoing maintenance activities, including engagement with vendors.
About the team
- The Global Corporate Security team drives security operations for Amazon Corporate Security at corporate sites worldwide. Divided in three regions (Americas; Asia Pacific; and Europe, Middle East, and Africa) each led by a Head of Corporate Security, Global Corporate Security is a team of security experts who work closely together to protect and secure Amazon’s people and business.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Security, Law Enforcement, Business Management, Accounting, International Relations or equivalent education or working experience.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in the security field in a global corporate environment or large sized organization (e.g. NGO, public sector, police, or military).
- Experience managing service providers and vendors.
- Security operations, risk management, and incident response.
- Training development and delivery.
- Security incident investigation.
- Project Management.
- Contract management.
- Fluent in English, and able to communicate (written/verbal) clearly and concisely
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to Amazon on www.amazon.jobs to apply
