Regional Security Manager - Dubai

Job description / Role

Oil & Gas

Entity:

Technology

Job family group:

HSSE Group

Job description:

Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

We also would like to emphasize that candidates of all genders are welcomed too.

Intelligence, Security and Crisis Management (ISC) is the overarching function which delivers geo-political insight, security risk management and crisis management to all bp businesses.

The Regional Security Manager's role exists to lead a team delivering risk management expertise and specialist security advice to all relevant businesses within the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This role is viewed as the senior level of leadership and is accountable for the delivery of Security Risk Management services of the highest quality, ensuring that threats to company personnel, assets and operations within the region are properly identified, evaluated and managed.

The region comprises countries including but not limited to Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa. The region includes upstream operations across MEA, where high levels of threat and significant levels of operating risk are managed.

You will be an integral part of the Security Leadership Team and there will be opportunities to lead on projects and oversee additional workstreams.

In this role, you will:

• Lead security across a large, strategically important and geo-politically complex region
• Manage a large, geographically dispersed team and mentor others
• Support delivery of deep technical expertise in the production of security solutions
• Embed consistent and systematic security management processes
• Effectively manage operating risk from tactical, on the ground delivery to operational and strategic guidance, advice and support
• Consider the broader impact of your actions on colleagues, community and environment
• Assume responsibility for ensuring that the Unified Risk Picture (ISC's software for managing country and asset level risk) is maintained
• Provide management oversight and reporting of security issues
• Provide detailed technical security advice to ensure the required barrier strength is maintained and risk is mitigated
• Consolidate, prepare and submit risk registers and risk management plans ensuring that Risk Notification and Plan Endorsement (RNPE) forms for emerging security risks are properly dealt with covering narratives, trends, major incidents
• Conduct security reviews to ensure the delivery of security measures
• Provide regular assessment and update to key partners to update on political events and security risk
• Facilitate information exchange with all partners within ISC and the business in relation to security threats across the region including interaction with threat intelligence analysts and advisors
• Act as the security representative on emergency or crisis response teams
• Ensure compliance with the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR)
• Oversee and ensure compliance with procurement and supply chain management (PSCM) standards on security services contracts
• Act as point of contact for Project Contractors' organizations in addressing various security issues, ensuring compliance with bp security guides, procedures and contractual requirements and with high level performance and delivery of services
• Ensure that appropriate security awareness training needs are identified and addressed
• Network with those responsible for security across bp on key issues and share standard processes
• Provide advice and support to management in the event of a security emergency and volatile periods such as civil unrest, terrorist attacks and kidnap
• Provide pre-emptive advice on risk reduction strategies for predicted periods of concern or during major events that could disrupt business
• Work collaboratively and inclusively with other internal partners
• Manage travel security risk
• Establish and maintain close relationships with public security forces, manage information exchange

What you will need to be successful:

• University degree, preferably in an analytical subject, or comparable, relevant professional experience
• Fluency in English
• Have a minimum of ten years' experience in a security role with responsibility for security for multiple businesses across a region, including in higher risk areas and in particular in the MEA region
• Have extensive experience managing large and diverse teams, dispersed across a wide region
• Have extensive expertise in security risk management and conducting security risk assessments
• Be experienced and comfortable participating in site and national level leadership team meetings
• Be able to discuss in detail security risk assessment and the use of risk management software
• Have a strong and proven knowledge of security strategy and implementing physical security practices and technical security measures to include CCTV, access control and management/monitoring systems

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