Regional Security Manager Brazil

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**Job Posting Title**

Regional Security Manager Brazil

**Job Description Summary**

Leads the overall day-to-day operation for all AAM security related matters across all locations in Brazil. Impose the Global Security risk driven strategy to identify and mitigate potential companywide security vulnerabilities. Ensuring all sites comply with corporate policies and procedures. Working closely with other Regional Security Managers to analyze and understand intelligence and geopolitical data that could impact AAM globally. Protecting AAM assets, associates, properties, and clients, constantly evaluating the existing operation and identifying areas for improvement. Critical to this position is understanding risk-driven security management strategy, proactively forecasting potential gaps that could expose AAM Brazil, and developing and implementing mitigating plans accordingly.

This position performs following overall duties under the direction of the Head of Global Security:

- Determine security procedures, aligned with company security policies, by studying organization operations, establishing security internal controls in the geographic area/region
- Conducts security audits to identify potential vulnerabilities related to physical security, staff, or asset protection. If necessary, develop mitigation plans for the geographic area/region.
- Responsible for establishing liaison with local and federal law enforcement as well as attending relevant information sharing groups, roundtables, and conferences beneficial to the current or future security strategy of the company. e.g. become a member of relevant OSAC chapters in the geographic area/region.

**Physical Security**
- Manage country-wide security responsibilities for access control, security systems, and all physical security programs.
- Review security design features, installations, or programs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
- Administer all contracted security professional operating in the geographic area/region (including but not limited to MSAs for guarding services, including identifying eligible companies, negotiating the contract, budgeting and payment of services).
- Oversee security aspects of visitor management in the geographic area/region ensuring compliance with AAM standards.

**Investigations**
- Manage region-wide security responsibilities for investigations under the directions of the AAM Lead Compliance Investigator Global Security.
- Interview witnesses or suspects to identify persons responsible for security breaches, establish losses, pursue prosecutions, or obtain restitution.
- Coordinate with Human Resources on involuntary terminations, threats, behavioral concerns, backgrounds and safety and security issues.
- Coordinate with local law enforcement when required.

**Travel Security / Intel.**
- Assess the nature and level of threats (low, medium, high, high risk) so that the scope of the problem can be determined, based on intel provided by the GSOC, develop a mitigation plan for the geographic area/region if required.
- In conjunction with the GSOC, support and advise travelers in the geographic area/region and/or other involved regions and develop a mitigation plan when required. Coordinate with respective Regional Security Managers if traveler’s itinerary involves travel into other geographic area/regions.
- Collect and forward intel about relevant events across Brazil to the GSOC for broader dissemination.
- Review and evaluate disseminated intelligence provided from the GSOC to determine how it impacts AAM operations across Brazil.

**Crisis Management**:

- Review crisis and emergency policies and procedures related to Brazil operation.
- Coordinate security response in conjunction with country management during and after emergency events and provide the GSOC with real-time situational updates for broader dissemination.

**Executive Protection / Event Security**:

- Coordinate with AAM management on local special events and projects as requested.
- Manage the operation of executive travel in the geographic area/region and develop mitigation plans if required, based on the threat and risk level. Liaise with local/state law enforcement, and other external security professionals involved.
- Responsible for the security of all international assignees and their families within the geographic area/region.

**Required Skills and Education**
- _ Excellent english language proficiency._
- _ Minimum of 10-years corporate security management experience from multinational organization. _
- _Deep understanding of risk-based security management strategy developing policies and procedures_
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