Regional Security Lead Africa

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Trafigura Full time

**Main Purpose**:
Reporting to the Global Head of Security & Business Resilience, the Regional Security Lead is the center of excellence in the field of Security & Business Resilience within the Africa region covering Trafigura, its subsidiaries, divisions and Joint ventures.

Accountable for development, implementation, management, and continuous improvement of a Regional Security Management programme supporting Trafigura teams & sites in execution and implementation of security controls.

The role works across subsidiary, division and facility HSSE professionals and Leadership teams.

The role is also responsible for providing security and business resilience support to Trafigura's offices in the Africa region.

The position as Regional Security Lead in Trafigura requires physical security skills and expertise, risk management understanding and know-how within physical security design, contracts, and the ability to ensure implementation of physical security management systems, procedures, security supplier KPI's and associated technology.

**Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities**:

- Previous experience with physical security and risk management processes and procedures. Minimum 5 years of experience in a corporate security department
- Understanding of security risk management within global organisations
- Recognized degree in business/resilience/risk management/ASIS CPP
- Experience with travel security risks and advice
- Excellent communication and presentation skills - Able to independently produce material for training and awareness
- Instils Trust - Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity.
- Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives and to get work done.
- Management Support: support Regional Leadership teams to conduct threat & risk assessments and build security plans
- Provide ad hoc security advice to leadership and partners
- Support development and implementation of a security plan for the region, including within transportation, supply chain, B2B, B2C petrochemical business, logistics and extraction industry.
- Incidents: Respond to/support crisis/incident/emergencies that affect employees and/or assets including investigations and loss prevention strategies
- Intelligence: Regional intelligence collection and analysis - to identify and anticipate threats/risks and mitigate or reduce them towards travellers, employees, physical assets, reputation, or overall operations
- Contractors & Controls: Assessing contractor & control performance and proposing improvements based on threat & risk assessment
- Education & Training: Fostering a security culture by educating and raising awareness across the region
- Cooperation & Collaboration: Establishing cross-company/divisional collaboration optimising security resources across the region
- Networking: Developing and maintain a regional network of internal stakeholders, external partners, local law enforcement and security providers to drive improvements across the African region
- Support facilities by consulting on physical security systems and processes
- Support service efficiency improvements working closely with our vendors/partners and ensure the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.
- Support travel security advice, monitoring and management

**Key Relationships and Department Overview**:
**About the position**

This is a new position, created to strengthen our work within physical security and to further support the regional operations of Trafigura.

You will be expected to travel frequently in the Africa region to perform risk assessments, interact with colleagues and vendors, up on projects and mitigation plans and get a deep understanding of the business needs across many different types of assets, installations, and operations.

You will build a network of internal and external stakeholders, with whom you will regularly interact and support. This includes law enforcement, security companies and suppliers in the Africa region.

You will also be an important part of our incident response in the region and expected to contribute to the teams working with business continuity planning and crisis management plans and response.

Travel will be an essential part of the job, both planned and ad hoc to respond to specific issues. It is essential that you are able and willing to travel often and with short notice.

It is important that you are comfortable with interacting and working with different nationalities and cultures. This role will be required to build relationships broadly in the region and to help navigate national and regional interests to e

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