Regional Security Manager

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CAE’s Regional Security Manager Middle East, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa reports to the CSO. The RSM leads regional security, crisis management, and business continuity activities, protecting employees, assets, information, facilities, and business operations while implementing corporate standards across the assigned geography.

• Physical security oversight: The role conducts site and accommodation security risk assessments, maintains regional security profiles, manages physical security providers, implements mitigation measures, and oversees regional security awareness training and clearances.

• Travel and executive protection: Responsibilities include managing journey-management vendors, developing travel security plans for high- and extreme-risk locations, and coordinating executive protection reviews covering venues, accommodations, routes, and transportation.

• Security plans: Produce security plans for events, country evacuation, or any other requirements. The RSM is responsible to produce and execute security plans in accordance with CAE Global Security format and standards.

• Investigation: The RSM must conduct several types of investigation accordingly to CAE Global Security’s policy and instructions governing the framework and parameters of investigation techniques and procedures.

• Intelligence and crisis response: The manager liaises with security agencies, embassies, and government intelligence organizations; leads incident response teams; develops evacuation and emergency plans; tests response strategies; and supports drills, tabletop exercises, business continuity, and rapid operational recovery.

Experience and capabilities:

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution • Minimum of five (5) years combined experience in a corporate security and/or law enforcement environment and/or military investigative, intelligence, legal, or police role or equivalent corporate experience preferably in a risk-management function • Minimum of five (5) years combined experience conducting and/or directing investigations

• Previous training and experience managing the identification, investigation, and mitigation of sophisticated threat actors targeting protected information or technologies • Ability to work successfully in a matrixed, multicultural, multilingual environment • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to bring disparate teams together in the successful pursuit of common objectives

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include

• Leadership role in a corporate security, legal, intelligence, counterintelligence, military, and/or law enforcement organization that includes international responsibilities • Work experience an established network of security contacts and contracts in the EMEA region • Experience in responding to international crises and directing an effective response • Clear communication in English and French, potentially Arabic Fluency • Advanced degree in a relevant field • Knowledge or ability and willingness to learn physical security assessment protocols and preventative measures

• Travel: May include up to 30% domestic and international travel

About CAE

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