Deputy Operational Risk Manager

Role overview

Security and risk coordination

• Support operational-risk, physical-security, and resilience programs across projects and offices; maintain procedures and coordinate activities.
• Support threat and vulnerability assessments, surveys, and inspections; document exposures, control gaps, mitigations, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate checks of access control, visitor processes, CCTV, and alarms; liaise with guard-force providers on posts, coverage, observations, and service issues.
• Monitor regional security, geopolitical, travel, infrastructure, environmental, and operational developments; verify information and assess potential impacts.
• Support travel and journey-risk assessments, destination briefings, movement tracking, and check-in arrangements; escalate concerns through established processes.

Incident response and continuity

• Support incident reporting and investigation by maintaining accurate timelines and logs, gathering authorized information, and following evidence-preservation and confidentiality procedures.
• Assist incident teams with verified information and support emergency notifications, crisis communications, evacuations, muster, and personnel accountability.
• Support business-continuity planning, operational-risk assessments, and resilience initiatives; keep plans, directories, records, studies, and surveys current.
• Coordinate crisis exercises, security and evacuation drills, tabletop exercises, and awareness briefings; track lessons and actions from incidents, audits, and reviews.
• During the manager’s absence, lead day-to-day operations, personnel coordination, reporting, incident response, and continuity within delegated authority; escalate matters beyond it.

Coordination and reporting

• Coordinate with project leadership, functional organizations, corporate security, and service providers; liaise with clients and authorities only when authorized.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and specialized reports, dashboards, summaries, and management briefings.
• Use Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, and Power BI for data collection, controlled sharing, reporting, and action tracking.

Education and experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and 6–8 years of relevant experience, or 10–12 years of relevant work experience.
• Relevant experience must include practical corporate or project physical-security coordination and operational-risk support, including assessments or inspections, incident reporting, travel risk, and emergency preparedness.
• Candidates must demonstrate experience applying controls, coordinating stakeholders, and escalating issues within defined authority.

Required knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of physical-security principles, threat and vulnerability assessment, inspections, layered protective measures, access control, visitor management, CCTV, alarms, and guard-force coordination is required.
• Candidates need to assess source credibility, corroborate security information, prepare evidence-based threat summaries, and handle sensitive information confidentially.
• Understanding of business continuity, emergency and crisis management, personnel accountability, and operational risk is required.
• Candidates need to support evacuations, notifications, incident teams, drills, exercises, and accurate recordkeeping during time-sensitive events.
• Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 proficiency, including Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, and Power BI, is required.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, coordination, independent-work, judgment, discretion, and escalation skills are required.

Preferred qualifications

• Complex construction, infrastructure, regional, or multi-project experience is preferred.
• Saudi Arabia/GCC operating-environment knowledge and experience with accountability systems, emergency notification platforms, or incident-management teams are preferred.
• CPP, PSP, or an equivalent security qualification is desirable but not mandatory; Arabic language capability is desirable.

Working conditions

• The position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Full-Time Office/Project telework designation.
• Flexibility is required for work outside normal hours, including nights, weekends, public holidays, on-call and standby arrangements, and rapid incident response.
• Extended support may be required during crises or manager absences; occasional travel within Saudi Arabia and the GCC may be required.