Regional Security Digitalisation & AI Transformation Lead

BMW Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BMW Group in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is seeking a Specialist Security Digitalisation & Fire Protection to lead the regional digitalisation of security governance and service delivery across APAC-MEA. You will design and deliver digital solutions, dashboards and AI-enabled tools to improve risk visibility and reporting.

Requirements include 4-6 years in digitalisation within a multinational environment, strong communication skills, and experience with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Power BI

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree or equivalent cross-mapped educational or professional experience in digital transformation, business informatics, process improvement, project management, corporate security, risk management or a related discipline.
• 4-6 years full-time experience in digitalisation, business transformation, process improvement, workflow automation, AI-enabled productivity, data visualisation, digital adoption or regional service delivery within a complex multinational environment; security experience is desirable but not essential.
• Demonstrable experience identifying digital opportunities in a security or governance context, simplifying workflows, building practical digital products and delivering solutions that are adopted by non-technical security users.
• Digital qualifications desirable: Microsoft 365, Power Platform / low-code, Power BI or data visualisation, SharePoint administration, process automation, digital project management, data literacy or recognised digital literacy certification.
• AI qualifications desirable: generative AI fundamentals, responsible AI use, prompt engineering, AI productivity tools, AI-supported workflow design or relevant BMW AI Academy / Copilot training pathways.
• High digital fluency combined with a clear understanding of security governance, security risk management, regional security operations and how digital tools can improve the delivery of RSO responsibilities.
• Ability to translate vague security problems into clear digital requirements, simple prototypes, workflows, service models, reporting outputs and training material that users can adopt quickly.
• Strong communication, facilitation and teaching skills, with the confidence to train colleagues, build capability, explain digital tools in plain language and support different maturity levels across the APAC-MEA security team.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation of manual security processes into compliant digital products, including risk registers, assessment outputs, action trackers, traveller feedback, incident learning, security concepts, fire protection follow-up and country champion coordination.
• Lead digitalisation for RSO APAC-MEA by identifying, prioritising and delivering practical digital improvements across governance, risk management, maturity tracking, assurance, reporting and stakeholder services.
• Develop and maintain security dashboards, structured data capture, maturity-model tooling and management reporting that improve visibility of risks, control weaknesses, open actions, regional KPIs and delivery performance.
• Use BMW-approved Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Forms, Planner, Power Platform, reporting and AI tools to improve collaboration, decision support, automation and risk-based prioritisation for the RSO APAC-MEA.
• Work with central PA-S security, business intelligence, physical security, incident and crisis management, information protection teams to align regional digital and AI solutions with global standards, reusable templates and approved ways of working.
• Assess and explore the AI use cases across the several security fields of action for the entire APAC-MEA security team and lead the identified use case(s) development and implementation.
• Design and deliver a digital software or platform, to allow market maturity tracking against all security fields of action. Deliver online guides, clinics and short learning formats that raise digital confidence, AI literacy and tool adoption across the regional security community and local security coordinator network.
• Ensure all digital security solutions comply with BMW IT requirements, information protection rules, sensitivity labelling, data handling standards, access control principles, cyber-security expectations and AI governance guardrails.
• Act as regional fire protection topic lead as a secondary responsibility, maintaining a basic governance view, supporting local follow-up where required and completing NEBOSH fire training or equivalent.
• Remain available for region-wide travel, non-routine working hours and alternative core security topics or multi-rolling responsibilities as directed by the Head of PA-S-AP-3.

Skills

Digital transformation

Process improvement

Project management

Security governance

Data visualisation

AI-enabled productivity

Security risk management

Communication & training

Education

Bachelor/Master degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

Power Platform

Power BI

SharePoint

Teams

Forms

Planner

Job description

BMW Group in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is seeking a Specialist Security Digitalisation & Fire Protection to lead the regional digitalisation of security governance and service delivery across APAC-MEA. You will design and deliver digital solutions, dashboards and AI-enabled tools to improve risk visibility and reporting.

Requirements include 4-6 years in digitalisation within a multinational environment, strong communication skills, and experience with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Power BI