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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.

Job Description

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.
• Perform additional duties e.g., leading key subject area(s) based on experience and competency assigned by the Head of Global Security as required.

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
• Experience developing and implementing security risk driven mitigation plans.
• Understanding security technology – CCTV, access control, visitor management, etc.
• Good understanding of investigation techniques from a corporate or law enforcement environment  
• Previous experience working with travel safety, including VIP clients.
• Knowledge of C-TPAT certification process.

About AAM:

As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with over 80 facilities in 18 countries, we are Bringing the Future Faster for a safer and more sustainable tomorrow. To learn more, visit AAM.com.

Why Join #TeamAAM:

As a member of #TeamAAM, you’ll get to make a difference on day one. From your first day with us, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, embrace challenges, build your skills, and bring your authentic self to work every day, all while helping to shape the future of mobility for AAM…and the world.