Senior Travel Security Specialist

Sibylline Ltd; Ciudad de México; Híbrido; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Travel Security Specialist to join their dynamic team. This role involves ensuring the safety of business travelers through risk monitoring and comprehensive assessments. You'll engage with high-profile clients, manage security vendors, and deliver innovative projects to enhance travel security. With a focus on the Americas, including travel to high-risk areas, this hybrid position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about security and ready to tackle exciting challenges, this is the role for you.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in travel security and risk management.
• Strong project management experience and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Expertise in producing high-quality written work and presentations.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct ground assessments in the Americas region, including high-risk environments.
• Manage security vendors and provide crisis response support.
• Deliver cross-functional projects and security training.

Conocimientos

Crisis Management

Travel Security Expertise

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Fluency in Spanish

Communication Skills

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in Related Field

Master’s Degree (Nice to Have)

Descripción del empleo

Company Description

About Sibylline

Sibylline is a leading intelligence and strategic risk consultancy in the security sector. Since 2010 we have supported businesses, governments and NGOs through the provision of high-quality risk analysis, due diligence and consultancy services. The firm provides an innovative, entrepreneurial and fast-growing working environment, offering employees ever greater exposure to high-profile clients and challenges. Sibylline offers fantastic opportunities for career progression within a successful company, and we aim to help our employees to build their own personal profiles as well-regarded analysts within the broader industry.

Key attributes of Sibylline employees are:

• Self-motivated, and auto-improving individuals who can couple initiative and boldness with good judgement
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Clarity of thought and analytical flair
• Strong, demonstrable interest in security and intelligence
• The ability to work under pressure, demonstrate leadership when required but also be able to collaborate effectively in teams
• Excellent attention to detail

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Travel Security Specialist to join an embedded travel security team within a global tech client. In this role, you will assist the client in helping to protect their business travellers through global travel risk monitoring, analyse threats to mobile assets, conduct comprehensive on-the-ground security assessments, manage scenario and crisis planning, and optimise escalation processes. Your primary focus will be the Americas with the requirement to cover and travel to other regions as needed.

The role will involve up to 50% travel, including to medium and high-risk destinations. You will be managing security vendors, conceptualising and delivering innovative projects to improve the travel security function, and producing high-quality briefings.

This is a hybrid role with standard hours of 9 am - 5 pm, Monday to Friday, requiring to work at the client’s Mexico City office three days per week. There may be an occasional need to work out-of-hours during emergencies and time-sensitive matters.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ground assessments in the Americas region, including in Medium, High or Extreme environments. Occasional travel to other regions on a periodic basis
• Identify, assess and manage security vendors in the Americas region
• Provide crisis response support, with a primary focus on the Americas region
• Act as a subject matter expert for client stakeholders, and brief stakeholders on key developments, trends and context relating to travel security
• Deliver cross-functional projects and security training that enhance the travel security program and services
• Manage travel security data and identify trends
• Produce high-quality written and verbal briefings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience in military service, law enforcement or the public sector
• Fluent in Spanish
• Exposure to working and travelling in a professional and/or personal capacity – in a range of environments, including those with higher security risks
• Demonstrable expertise in travel security and the local security environment within the Americas region, particularly Mexico and Brazil
• Strong knowledge of the travel security industry and demonstrable experience working in security operations within higher-risk environments
• Extensive experience working with security vendors
• Experience in conducting security assessments on locations, routes and hotels
• Demonstrable expertise in producing high-quality written work and presentations
• Strong project management experience and the ability to work cross-functionally
• Ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet objectives
• Strong ability to take a global perspective when approaching issues
• High level of ability to distil complex information into clear, concise communications
• Must be able to travel to the USA on a business visa
• Must have the right to work in Mexico.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field
• Industry-specific qualifications (such as hostile environment training, security risk management courses, medical qualifications, close protection qualifications, ASIS PSP).

Additional Information

Interview Process

• Initial call with our Talent Acquisition team member
• Timed written assessment (arranged at the time that suits you) to test writing and analytical capability
• Panel interview with some of the team members and hiring managers at Sibylline
• Meet and Greet with the client

Research indicates that certain groups are less likely to apply for a position unless they meet every single requirement. If you feel you meet some of the requirements and can offer a unique perspective to this role, we strongly encourage you to apply—you might be the perfect fit we're looking for!

Sibylline is committed to the recruitment and selection of candidates without regard for sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, age, political beliefs, culture and lifestyle. We are committed to fostering a business culture that reflects these values and promotes equal opportunity.