Senior Manager - Security

About the role

Lead and enhance the organisation’s security function by strengthening maturity across physical, personnel, and information domains. The role safeguards critical assets, prevents unauthorised access and information leakage, and ensures robust security controls for employees, contractors, and third parties.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute security enhancement initiatives, strengthen governance, policies and controls, and continuously assess security effectiveness.
• Manage personnel security and insider risk, including vetting, clearance, onboarding, and monitoring of unauthorised information sharing.
• Establish security clearance, access control and monitoring processes for contractors and third‑party entities.
• Oversee security operations, control‑room activities, CCTV, badge access and zoning to ensure effective protection coverage.
• Protect critical infrastructure and sensitive locations, monitor external exposure, and coordinate with authorities to mitigate risks.
• Act as the primary interface with government and national security entities, ensuring regulatory compliance and leading external audits.
• Lead incident investigation, escalation, corrective actions and trend analysis to reduce vulnerabilities.
• Maintain and test security systems (access control, CCTV, intrusion detection), driving continuous improvement.
• Develop and deliver security training and awareness programmes to foster a strong security culture.
• Manage a team of Security Superintendents across surveillance, access control and data security functions.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field; professional security or risk certifications preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in security operations and risk management, preferably in industrial or critical infrastructure environments.
• 5–7 years of managerial experience leading multi‑disciplinary security teams.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and ability to handle high‑risk scenarios.

Required skills

• Physical security frameworks
• Personnel security frameworks
• Insider risk management
• Access control systems
• Regulatory and national security compliance
• CCTV surveillance systems
• Badge access control technology
• Intrusion detection systems
• Digital monitoring and analytics tools