The Senior Regional Manager position has a larger geographical area of accountability than the Regional Manager in terms of organization assets, facilities, number and size of operating sites. This position plans and directs the organization’s largest geographic region’s security function under senior management direction.
Job Description
• Develops, implements and manages the strategic and tactical planning for the region’s security services.
• Develops, implements and manages regional strategic planning and coordination of the security function aligned with the organization’s overall business objectives.
• Provides regional security leadership to the sites and establishes the region’s security business plan.
• Develops, plans, organizes and directs the activities of on-site security managers and ensures that their actions comply with legal and regulatory requirements and meet corporate and customer needs.
• Develops and implements policies, procedures, standards, training and methods for identifying and protecting intellectual property assets, personnel, property, facilities, operations, or material from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, theft, assault, vandalism, product tampering, espionage, sabotage or loss.
• Develops and manages business-critical projects and programs with significant financial and/or legal impact on a regional level.
• For the region, develops and documents standards for measuring efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.
• Plans, develops and implements procedures to obtain, maintain, secure, analyze, account for, and provide information from assessment reports.
• Manages complex security improvement programs across business units, service organizations and regional geographies.
• Develops regional business plans and maintains close relationships with high-level law enforcement, intelligence and private-sector counterparts.
• Briefs senior and executive management on status of security issues.
• Serves on senior-level intra and inter-corporate committees and working groups.
• Manages the activities and provides leadership direction to the professional, technical and support staff within the organization unit.
Qualification Guidelines:
Master’s degree in an area of study relevant to this position and more than 10 years of experience with a major law enforcement, intelligence, public-service or private-sector security organization or Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent in an area of study relevant to this position and more than 15 years experience with a major law enforcement, intelligence, public- or private-sector security organization. Has had exposure in the international security arena.
Jerry Brennan and Steve Walker are co-authors of the book “Security Careers.” Mr. Brennan is founder of SMR Group, a job-finding resource for security executives. Mr. Walker is partner in compensation consulting and research firm Foushee Group Inc. Both are content expert faculty for the Security Executive Council (www.securityexecutivecouncil.com/?sourceCode=std). “Security Careers” may be purchased through the Security Executive Council Web site. The information in this article is copyrighted and reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.