Protective Services Manager

All candidates must have at least 5 years of relevant security experience or the equivalent in private, government, or security forces. A degree from an accredited college or university is required, and an advanced degree is a plus.  

Motivated to work in a meritocratic, collaborative culture in which work ethic, humility, collaboration, and a "roll-up your sleeves mentality" are critical. Nimble, highly responsive, able to pivot quickly between projects and priorities, and meet time-sensitive deadlines. Uncompromised ethics and integrity.  

Industry-recognized local and international professional security certifications are a plus. 

Responsibilities may include some or all of the following: 

Security Management: 

• Foster a security culture and awareness. 

• Apply broad security risk management knowledge and an understanding of policies, procedures, and frameworks to enable business operations activities. 

• Contribute/implement security strategy, plans, procedures, and controls. 

• Identify, anticipate, assess, and help resolve complex business challenges where collaboration and cooperation between individuals are often needed to affect the solution.  

• Conduct systematic threat, vulnerability, and risk assessments. 

• Cultivate, build engagement/relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, industry organizations, law enforcement, and other related government agencies. 

• Establish near-term goals and provide input to longer-term goals within the area of responsibility. 

• Maintain awareness of relevant Regional and local regulations and decisions. 

Crisis Management, Risk Intelligence, Event Monitoring, and Employee Notification: 

• As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) (crisis and emergency management), serve as a key contact for internal and external stakeholders. 

• Deal with Challenging and sensitive situations appropriately and confidentially. 

• Manage incident notifications and security assessments by vendors to ensure the timely receipt of information and analysis on events that could impact Accenture's facilities, people, or operations. 

• Oversee the dissemination of such information to Accenture leadership and coordinate any messaging to employees. 

• Be on point for escalations from the Global Accenture Security Operations Center.  

Personnel Security: 

• Support and deputize for the Employee Assistance Officer on Behavioral Threat Assessment Teams (BTAT). 

• Support employees/contractors/clients affected by internal/external security incidents. 

• Support the GP&S Intelligence team in conducting threat assessments, including domestic and international operations, and disseminating findings as needed. 

• Support security awareness training. 

• Support executive protection and event security management. 

Other desired competencies include: 

• Basic computer skills (experience/proficiency in Microsoft suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint) 

• Possess strong analytical skills, understand complex issues, quickly absorb information, and deploy conceptual and creative problem-solving. 

• Be a natural leader with the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships; skilled in gaining valuable insights through collaboration and communication. 

• Strong time management skills and the ability to multitask. 

• Corporate security management experience. 

• General understanding of the investigative process. 

• Extensive knowledge of physical security and systems. 

• General understanding of safety/security in a corporate environment. 

• General understanding of legal and corporate terminology. 

• Exposure and demonstrated ability to work in multicultural environments. 

• Spanish is mandatory. Fluency in English is expected.  

Relationships:   

Reports to: Regional Protective Services Lead 

Supervises: N/A  

External Relationships: External security vendors, domestic and foreign law enforcement, diplomatic and intelligence services, security industry peer networks, and organizations. 

Locations:  

Mexico City - Mexico