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Global Protection & Security - Regional Protective Services Expert

Protective Services Associate Manager | Mid-Level | Full time
Job No. R00306774 | Milano
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Accenture, a fortune 500 company, is a global management consulting and professional services firm that solves its clients' toughest challenges by providing unmatched services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. We serve clients in more than 120 countries with over 800 000 employees. 

People are at the heart of Global Protection & Security (GP&S), Accenture’s Corporate Security Team. They are an organization of highly skilled, experienced, and diverse professionals who take immense pride in serving Accenture and helping grow the business. The Regional Protective Services team is a core part of GP&S with members based out of various regions of the world.  

Reporting to the regional Protective Services Lead for the market unit, is a full-time role supporting crisis management; emergency preparedness and response; physical security, standards adoption and systematic facility reviews; investigations; workplace violence prevention and planning; behavioural threat assessment and management; executive protection and event security support; travel security; geo-political threat monitoring; supporting security officer vendor selection, deployment and performance reviews; and corporate security related training within the area of responsibility (Italy).  

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They will be providing guidance and support in a complicated corporate environment that values collaboration, independent thinking, proactive problem-solving, integrity, collegiality, efficiency, and continuous organizational transformation. S/he is expected to develop a close collaborative relationship with Accenture’s Business, IT, Cyber Security, Legal, Travel, Workplace, and HR leaders as well as with domestic law enforcement and diplomatic and intelligence services.   

Responsibilities may include some or all the below: 

Security Management: 

  • Foster security culture and awareness

  • Apply broad security risk management knowledge, understanding 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 is often needed to affect the solution

  • Conduct systematic security reviews 

  • Support on-site emergency action plan drills 

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

  • Maintain awareness of relevant EU regulations and decisions

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

  • Support crisis and emergency management and serve as a key contact for internal and external stakeholders

  • Deal with difficult and sensitive situations appropriately and confidentially 

  • Manage incident notifications and security assessments by vendors to ensure timely receipt of information and analysis on events which 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 Accenture Security Operations Centers

Personnel Security: 

  • Active member of Behavioral Threat Assessment Teams (BTAT)

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

  • Conduct threat assessments to include domestic and international operations and disseminate findings as needed

  • Support security awareness training

  • Support executive protection and event security management

Requirements: 

  • All Candidates must have at least 3 years of relevant corporate security experience; or the equivalent in private, government, security forces

  • Motivated to work in a collaborative culture in which work ethic, 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

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

  • General understanding of investigative process and knowledge of physical security and systems 

  • General understanding of safety/security in a corporate environment and understanding of legal and corporate terminology

  • Fluency in English

Milano

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