Job Description
Overview:
Serving as a full-time, embedded Regional Program Manager with a Fortune 50 Company in its corporate security organization, the selected candidate will be a high-visibility strategic partner that leads the coordination and strategic alignment of diverse business functions. This position requires scrupulous attention to detail and the ability to operate at a tactical, strategic, and operational level. The primary focus of this position will be to optimize methods and the approach to program management in a large corporate security organization.
The selected candidate will be responsible for streamlining high-importance projects and conducting leadership level internal and external initiatives that have significant impact on the client’s business objectives. This position requires curiosity, thoughtfulness, and a dedication to solving the big problems in often ambiguous environments. Imagination, flexibility, organization, outstanding writing skills, and the ability to combine hard skills with soft, are key factors for success.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Support the Fortune 50 Company’s Regional Manager in overall strategy and day-to-day operations
- Focus specifically on vendor oversight and maintenance of performance metrics. Contribute to, and drive data driven decisions that help vendors to perform to customer standards
- Drive the execution of action items and top priorities agreed upon by the Regional Manager and leadership team
- Create structure and focus for broad, ambiguous ideas that the Regional Manager and division leaders have agreed upon
- Proactively identify opportunities to add value to the Regional Manager and Fortune 50 Company
- Operate at a tactical, strategic, and operational level, handling the oversight of projects that fall between divisions or leadership areas of responsibility
- Advanced presentation, proposal, and report writing
Educations/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5 years’ experience with progressive management roles or equivalent
- Expertise in project management
- Ability to communicate complex issues effectively, verbally and in writing
- Authorization to work in the U.S.
- Interest in the security and risk management field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or above
- PMP or similar certification
- Executive level briefing skills
- Advanced business writing skills
- Policy creation and maintenance experience
- Intermediate to advanced use of Microsoft Suite, as well as project management software
- Demonstrated experience in root cause analysis
- Advanced skills in maintaining a budget
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time with little to no notice
- Ability to speak multiple languages
- Experience in providing corporate security consulting specifically in non- industrial environments
- Certifications in relevant sections of the Incident Command System
- Experience with the collection and analysis of threat intelligence
- Ability to stand long hours, lift 20 pounds, and work at times in an industrial environment
Key Incumbent Attributes:
- Excellent organizational, planning, prioritization skills, and high level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience with diverse teams and cultures
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills)
- Results-oriented person with strong delivery focus who can work independently and collaboratively with global teams
- Good decision making skills
- Driven to demonstrate ownership
- Demonstrable root cause analysis skill
- Ability to work with remote teams, if needed
- Able to work efficiently and accurately to meet tight deadlines and prioritize
- Experience with increasing scope and scale of programs, and the organization
- Ability to analyze both qualitative and quantitative metrics
- Ability to comfortably and confidently present to all levels of the Company
