Sep 16, 2020

Country Security Manager , Saudi Arabia

Employer: Hitachi ABB Power Grids
Location: Riyadh, , Saudi Arabia


Your responsibilities
1.Governance and Organization: Provides competent functional country support throughout the country, in accordance with the region security plan. May have additional responsibilities as a lead country security manager to oversee additional assigned regions if required. Active member of country HSE/SA Board as the security representative.
2.Metrics : Collects, analysis and reports on performance according to the region security plan and agreed KPI’s
3.Regulatory Compliance: Tracks, assesses and reports on emerging security trends and country related legislation. Ensures through inspections, audits and reviews respective geographical area of responsibility is compliant with security standards, regulations and guidelines. Maintains and 3rd party audit requirements for respective security organization.
4.Risk Management: Contributes to effective risk management of security related issues in the respective organization by providing specialist knowledge and advice on key business decisions to the business and in the country HSE/ SA Board.
5.Continues Improvement: Drives behavioral change to continuously improve security performance through coordinated groups wide performance improvement programs and initiatives. Support and sharing of best practices and applies group standardized process to deliver consistent security support within the respective organization.
6.Communication improvement: Engages external (e.g customers, suppliers, relevant authorities and other stakeholders) and internal stakeholders in order to report on, raise awareness and gain commitment on Hitachi ABB’s security efforts and performance and obtain objective feedback. Cooperates with other functions and business partners to improve security measures.
7.Budget: Participates in defining the annual budget for area of responsibility and is accountable for managing performance against agreed financial targets and constraints.
8.Operational Support: Implements regional annual security plans and security objectives within the respective country in alignment with Hitachi ABB Group sustainability and security strategy. Maintains an effective level of crisis resilience in the respective organization. Provides serious incident investigation along with HSE Team and ensures root-cause analysis and corrective actions are identified and implemented. Delivers core training programs as required by the Security programs.
9.Project Management: Contributes to and/or plans and executes security related projects. Develops and reports on project objectives. Manages project resources such as manpower, financials and other relevant factors.
10.People Leadership and development: Ensures that the area of responsibility is appropriately organized staffed, and directed guides, motivates develops direct/indirect subordinates within HR policies. Effects people decisions in the function’s scope of activities in cooperation with the respective organizations.

Your background
General Administration degree or bachelor degree in Management along with 10+ years of experience / practice from military or police academy or equivalent practice and experience of security management.
- Team Leading Experience
- Strong written and verbal Communication Skills
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Strong Decision-Making Capabilities
- High degree of complex Task Management and Delegation Skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Fluent in English.