Chief Security & Risk Leader - UK & Ireland

SSP Food Travel Experts; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Friends & Family discount app

Training & development

Health & wellbeing support

Hybrid working

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

SSP Food Travel Experts is seeking a senior security leader to shape the strategy across the UK & Ireland, ensuring customers, colleagues and assets are safeguarded while enabling commercial objectives.

You'll provide executive leadership, govern risk, oversee investigations, and drive continuous improvement in security operations, with a focus on data-driven decisions, regulatory compliance, and strong stakeholder partnerships.

Qualifications

• Develop and maintain a risk-based security and loss-prevention strategy.
• Lead security operations across UK & Ireland with consistent standards.
• Oversee investigations into theft, fraud and security incidents.
• Ensure compliance with UK/EU data protection, health & safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Build relationships with store managers, police, insurers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and monitor security performance measures using data and intelligence to identify trends, prioritise investment and allocate resources.
• Manage outsourced security guarding contract and ensure service delivery, compliance and value for money.
• Oversee Security Operations: CCTV monitoring, incident triage, escalation and coordinated response.
• Develop crisis-management, emergency-response and business-continuity arrangements; translate lessons into measurable improvements.
• Prepare and manage the security budget and investment programme.

Skills

Security strategy

Risk assessment

Incident & crisis management

Loss prevention & investigations

Security systems & technology

Data analysis & performance management

Stakeholder management

Communication & influencing

People leadership

Budgeting & supplier management

Tools

CCTV systems

Access control

Alarms

Body-worn video

Data analytics tools

Job description

SSP Food Travel Experts is seeking a senior security leader to shape the strategy across the UK & Ireland, ensuring customers, colleagues and assets are safeguarded while enabling commercial objectives.

You'll provide executive leadership, govern risk, oversee investigations, and drive continuous improvement in security operations, with a focus on data-driven decisions, regulatory compliance, and strong stakeholder partnerships.