Security Lead UK & Northern Europe in Wickford

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too.

About the Role:

Sitting within Technology, Intelligence, Security and Crisis Management (ISC) is the overarching function which delivers geo-political insight, emergency management support and security protection to all bp businesses. The security function works to risk assess identified security threats and manage security barriers to ensure bp’s business activity can be conducted securely, wherever the opportunities arise.

The role provides specialist security expertise and risk management capability to bp businesses operating across the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. The position ensures that threats to personnel, assets and operations are properly identified, assessed and managed in accordance with bp security requirements so that business activity can be conducted safely and securely wherever bp operates.

The role represents the first level of leadership within the regional security structure and operates under the direction of the Country Security Manager (CSM) UK & Northern Europe. The role is responsible for translating bp’s Security Risk Management framework into effective delivery across the area of responsibility and ensuring that security risks are managed in a timely, proportionate and risk informed manner.

Key Accountabilities

• Act as the Security Lead across bp businesses in the UK & Northern Europe, delivering the security risk management framework across the area of responsibility.
• Provide security expertise, risk management oversight and support to safeguard our people, assets and operations.
• Provide specialist security input to business leadership on emerging threats, security risks and the mitigation measures required to support safe and secure operations.
• Identify, assess and monitor security threats affecting company personnel, facilities, assets and activities, ensuring that appropriate mitigation strategies are developed and implemented.
• Maintain oversight of the regional security risk profile and ensure that security risk registers, mitigation plans and related governance processes are maintained in accordance with company requirements.
• Provide security input to business activities, projects and operational planning to ensure that security considerations are appropriately incorporated into business decision making.
• Support business leadership through the provision of security briefings, threat updates and risk assessments relating to geopolitical developments, security trends and operational risks.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal partners across bp businesses to ensure security risks are understood and managed effectively within the operating environment.
• Lead and coordinate the activities of Business Security Representatives across the region to ensure consistent implementation of bp security standards.
• Act as a focal point for security support to bp activities in locations where no dedicated security presence exists.
• Oversee the development and implementation of appropriate physical, procedural and technical security measures aligned to identified risk.
• Conduct security reviews and assurance activities across bp operations to ensure that security controls remain effective and aligned to assessed risk.
• Facilitate the exchange of threat and risk information with ISC intelligence teams and other relevant internal partners to ensure security assessments reflect the current threat environment.
• Maintain effective relationships with government authorities, law enforcement agencies and relevant external collaborators to support situational awareness and coordination where required.
• Contribute to incident management and crisis response structures when activated, providing security domain expertise as required.
• Ensure that security activities remain aligned with the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and relevant bp Ethics and Compliance requirements.
• Ensure that contractor and third party activities involving security considerations align with bp security standards and contractual obligations.
• Conduct site visits across the area of responsibility to maintain visibility and assurance of security arrangements.

Essential Education:

University degree in a relevant subject, professional qualifications comparable or professional experience. The role holder must be able to speak and write English to a native standard with an emphasis on persuasive writing.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

The candidate must:

• Have demonstrable experience in a security role with responsibility for managing security.
• Possess strong expertise in threat assessment, security risk assessment and the practical application of security risk management frameworks.
• Be comfortable engaging with senior business leadership and participating in leadership meetings.
• Be able to clearly articulate security risks and mitigation strategies within a corporate environment.
• Have a solid understanding of physical and technical security systems.
• Have experience developing security policies, procedures and security risk management processes.
• Demonstrate the ability to influence partners and support business decision making where security risk considerations are involved.
• Have experience supporting budgets, preparing cases and contributing to security related projects or programmes.

Desirable criteria:

Membership of an appropriate professional security body (e.g. The Security Institute or ASIS).

Why join us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others. We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

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Travel Requirement: Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role.

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation.

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.

Skills: Accounting for people, Agility core practices, Close security protection, Communication, Crisis and emergency response management, Digital Fluency, Extortion prevention and response, Information Security, Insider Risk, Intelligence for business, Investigations, Kidnap prevention and response, Large scale evacuation, Maritime Security, OMS and bp requirements, Personal security awareness, Physical security systems and surveillance, Project and programme management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Security in high risk environments, Security policies and practices, Security risk assessment and planning, Stakeholder Engagement.