Global Physical Security Director - Boston, MA, United States - Professional Diversity Network

Description

What You'll Do
You will be a key member of a small, agile, and diverse global team responsible for protecting the security and safety of our employees, assets, business operations and reputation worldwide. You will be forward-thinking, innovative, and help lead-as well as deliver–continuous improvement of BCG's physical security operations.

This is a global role driving the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the organization's physical security operations and strategy. You will be a subject matter expert with significant knowledge and global experience in physical security technology, enterprise access control systems, operational excellence, performance metrics, and GSOC implementation and delivery.

You will partner with other internal teams, external vendors, and physical security peers such as global real estate, IT, information security, enterprise resiliency, crisis management, business continuity, and local, regional, and global leadership to drive key initiatives critical to developing and maturing current processes. You will partner with Global Risk, InfoSecurity and IT to test and validate the program ensuring performance in relation to operating norms and standards.

You will combine a solid understanding of industry trends in these areas with robust commercial awareness of the corporate security industry, technology suppliers and vendors.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the physical security program and develop, monitor, and measure critical operational objectives and performance metrics that lead to proactive and anticipatory decision making.

You will have an understanding of the threat landscape and material property and personnel risks facing BCG and have a proven track record of embedding a cohesive security risk management framework and best practices into an organization.

You will also be expected to support all aspects of our team's output. BCG is a consensus culture and a key to success in this role will be the ability to manage risk and compliance, effectively communicate with key stakeholders and foster collaboration and partnership in a way that supports and enables our business.

You will report to the Executive Director, Security and Sustainability, and serve as BCG's principal source of expertise on physical and technical security globally.

You will need to be independent and self-directed and be comfortable and effective working on a virtual team within a matrix reporting relationship.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

Coordinating physical safety and security of our assets and people

• Developing and driving operational consistency in core physical security technology and GSOC programs, processes and procedures ensuring employees and customers have a reliable, dependable, and consistent experience globally.
• Researching and deploying technology solutions and innovative security management techniques to safeguard BCG's assets
• Coordinating with the Global Real Estate team on the design and implementation of physical and technical security installations across our global real estate portfolio and managing associated integration vendors
• Conducting security risk assessments in support of office openings
• Owning and maintaining our Physical Security Minimum Standards, ensuring compliance with metrics and reporting; collaborating with other functions to ensure the standards remain relevant; supporting our global offices to implement these standards
• Supporting the analysis and dissemination of global risk, threat, and intelligence information to internal customers
• Supporting the assessment of global events that may impact BCG's people, facilities, business operations and reputation
• Program management in support of the development, delivery and ongoing maturity of our security initiative, such as standing up and managing a GSOC
• Being ready to support BCG's incident response teams respond to adverse events
  

Driving physical security safety and security strategy development and execution, in line with business priorities

• Formulating strategic plans in partnership with the broader leadership team and translating strategic priorities into action
• Developing and implementing policies related to physical security
• Preparing business cases to support leadership discussions; formulating recommendations and business cases
• Liaising with and influencing key stakeholders across cohorts to increase awareness of and support for the safety and security agenda
• Leading global teams in the deployment and operation of physical security projects and programs and ensuring effective collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Effectively engaging with stakeholders at all levels to manage and drive transformational change and adoption of new security measures smoothly.
  

Effective communication and training

• Effectively communicating with key stakeholders and leadership a compelling and comprehensive set of outcomes to be achieved, with the presence and influence to define and enforce high standards for programs
• Promoting and engaging in cross-functional interfaces, support, and program development between security and functions such as Real Estate, Meetings, IT, office operations, etc.
• Developing and maintaining network and relationships with relevant high-level international counterparts to include in-country security and international security agencies, intelligence and private sector counterparts worldwide
• Supporting the development and delivery of BCG's safety and security training programs
  

Leadership, impact and change

• Successfully influencing and driving consensus in a global, decentralized and matrix environment with both internal clients as well as suppliers, with sometimes conflicting or competing priorities
• Challenging traditional ways of doing things in a respectful and collaborative manner – moving beyond the obvious
• Operating successfully in international, cross-functional and ambiguous settings
• Effectively influencing up, down and across
  

You Bring (experience & Qualifications)

• Excitement for a role that continues to evolve, grow and change over time
• Bachelor's degree or international equivalent in a relevant discipline
• 12+ years' relevant experience in the international security arena with a major global corporation, preferably a professional services firm or similar industry
• Must have experience with physical security design in a corporate environment (new-build and refurbishment projects), managing security-industry vendors, and GSOC development and coordination
• Experience managing project issues/risks, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues effectively to non-technical users
• Strong change management experience in a global enterprise
• Experience and a proven track record in working across cultural boundaries, within a complex matrix structured organization
• Excellent command of the English language
• Skilled in MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
• Travel up to 10%: particularly at on-set to establish relationships
  

YOU'LL WORK WITH

A variety of cohorts and functions across the company from consulting staff through senior leadership as well as external vendors in additional to the other members of the Global Security team. You will report to the Global Executive Director, Security and Sustainability.

Who We Are

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world's best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible-and unlocking your potential to advance the world. Our team called Global Services (GS) provides corporate support to business areas such as Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing and IT. This diverse team of experts, operators and specialists represent all levels from Partner to entry level staff, operating across the globe in multiple countries. Global Services is in short, the backbone of BCG.PDN-9b368ceb-0114-4d7d-87aa-2be8cf6681c2