Corporate and Workplace Solutions-Physical Security & Investigations-Vice President-Hyderabad
Goldman Sachs
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Office of Global Security
The Office of Global Security’s mission is to protect the people and assets of Goldman Sachs.
To ensure a safe and secure environment for our people, we assess risk to:
• Enable the delivery of effective security, fire and life safety protocols;
• Lead the Firm’s crisis management preparation, implementation, and recovery processes.
Overview:
To effectively manage physical security operations for Goldman Sachs Campus in Hyderabad. This entails providing the staff a safe and secure working environment by creating and implementing security and fire & life safety policies.
Role and Responsibilities
Physical Security:
- Provide security management for the Goldman Sachs Hyderabad Campus and BCP site.
- Deliver high quality management of security services including personnel security, crisis management, loss prevention, asset protection, fire & life safety and escort guarding operations.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company assets, employees, guests, or others on company property.
- Maintain close working relationships with contracted security service providers and maintain a highly professional and effective guard force.
- Ensure training and drilling of contractual security officers and escort officers on regional & local SOPs.
- Coordinate annual security training program for employees as per business needs (e.g. women self-defense training, fire warden and first aid training).
- Provide on-going security awareness training to administrative and front-line staff on handling suspect mail, bomb recognition, phone threats and personal safety.
- Produce and implement company procedures relating to security, operations and emergency response and producing asset risk protection documents.
- Analyze and evaluate security operations to identify risks or opportunities for improvement.
- Conduct physical examinations of property to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations
- Arrange for or perform executive protection activities as needed.
- Plan and coordinate security and logistic arrangements for events and senior leadership visits.
- Carry out risk assessment of office building, new sites, ODCs (offshore dedicated center), warehouses and hotels.
- Support and oversee travel security program.
- Collect and analyze security data to determine security needs, bring in operational efficiency and for pro-active risk mitigation.
- Investigate, interview, obtain witness reports and prepare incident reports as required.
- Develop and present annual security strategy in alignment with global security objectives.
- Attend meetings, professional seminars, or conferences (such as ASIS and OSAC.) to keep abreast of changes in executive legislative directives or new technologies impacting security operations.
Crisis Management & Business Continuity
- Gather and interpret information from various sources and advise stakeholders and assist in preparation and planning of emergency response and business continuity planning.
- Monitor geopolitical, national and local news/events to assess and mitigate any impact to people or the firm. Present threat assessments to regional director and leadership.
- Work closely with the GS global security team to advise and provide relevant security reports on domestic and regional issues.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate and develop strong relationships with cross-functional senior management and business heads.
- Establish and maintain close liaison with local police, security and intelligence services and maintain a network of contacts with security professionals in the private and government sector.
Vendor Management and Budgetary Control
- Vendor management and engagement with key responsibilities of contract management, service level agreement, audits, compliance checks & background verification.
- Control budget for security operations and review financial reports to ensure efficiency and quality of security operations.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Proven experience as security manager or similar position
- Strong communication and language skills, including the ability to clearly communicate with all stakeholders, external regulatory agencies and employees at every level.
- Good knowledge of the latest trends in the field of security with special emphasis on CCTV, access control and fire alarm systems.
- Proven leadership skills that will motivate the security team and company employees to a high level of understanding regarding various safety precautions.
- Understand mandatory local labor laws and building codes.
- Strong networking in the government security and intelligence agencies.
- Strong interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple, high priority projects with a keen attention to detail.
- Understanding of risk and crisis management.
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Calm under pressure and in high-stress environments.
Experience, education and certifications
- 12+ years of experience in the field of Corporate security or in a related area e.g. Defense/Police officer.
- University degree required.
- Professional degree/accreditation in the field of security will be preferred.
- Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office suite and applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.