Security and Business Resilience Lead – Middle East

Role purpose

Regional security leadership

• Create and roll out a regional security plan aligned with the global security framework and changing threats; establish regional governance, policies, and standards.
• Advise regional business partners and coordinate security planning for transportation, supply chains, logistics, petrochemical, and extraction contexts.
• Support operating companies in adopting the security management framework alongside HSE leads, general managers, and contract managers.
• Test physical security controls and systems, identify vulnerabilities, propose solutions, and improve systems, contracts, and agreements.
• Promote security awareness through training and ensure regional activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.

Resilience, travel security, and incidents

• Coordinate regional resilience programmes, embed readiness planning, and maintain business continuity and crisis response plans under policy and governance requirements.
• Direct regional travel security monitoring and advice, work with external suppliers, and coordinate support for travel-related incidents.
• Lead incident response and exercises, developing crisis frameworks, command structures, and protocols for significant events.
• Record, report, investigate, and coordinate responses to incidents affecting trading, assets, and shipping; participate in 24/7 group security support.

Standards and capability building

• Help create and apply group physical security policies, procedures, and standards, with a focus on offices and sites.
• Deliver security education, establish regional security forums, and build networks with internal partners, law enforcement, providers, and suppliers.

Experience and expertise

• At least five years of experience in corporate security or business resilience.
• Hands-on practitioner-level expertise in physical security and risk management.
• Leading a security function and knowledge of logistics and maritime security are preferred.

Qualifications and capabilities

• University-level education or equivalent experience in law enforcement, security, or armed forces; security risk management is preferred.
• Strong understanding of security risk management in an international framework and proven engagement with senior leaders and external partners.
• Track record of delivering projects on time with measurable results.
• Proficient English is required; additional languages are advantageous.
• Ability to work across cultures and regional contexts, communicate at executive level, and build alignment across functions.

Travel

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% or more of the time.