Zone Security Manager, Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider Electric; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

WESOP

Inclusive environment

Global family leave

Career growth

Continuous development

Hybrid setup

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Security Manager for the CEE Zone, based in Warsaw or Budapest. You will drive governance, risk management, and incident readiness across multiple countries, leading country security leaders and coordinating with regional stakeholders to implement global standards and secure operations.

The role requires 8+ years in security/risk management, a strong matrix-organization mindset, and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Security Management, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, Business Management, or a related field (master’s preferred).
• 8+ years’ experience in a security/risk management role
• Experience working in a complex matrix organization
• Stakeholder management across cultures, functions, and seniority with influencing/negotiating skills
• Understanding of Business Operations structures and ways of working
• Decisive and ownership mindset
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Governance and oversight: ensure consistent application of global and regional security policies across the zone.
• Guide and support country security leaders and ensure alignment with governance and performance expectations.
• Oversee onboarding, competency development, and performance management for the zone security team.
• Coordinate security awareness and share lessons learned to reinforce a security culture locally.
• Support standardization and optimization of security systems and technologies.
• Monitor zone KPIs and provide concise updates to Regional Security Leader.
• Serve as liaison between country security communities, zone leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Oversee implementation and maintenance of security frameworks and standards across all countries in the zone.
• Support compliance reviews, ensuring controls are validated, documented, and improved.
• Risk management: coordinate risk and threat assessments across all countries, track controls, monitor effectiveness, and identify vulnerabilities.
• Incident management: support incident response, coordinate escalation to region for high-risk events, and contribute to crisis preparedness and after-action reviews.
• Be an agent of change with strong analytics and data management.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Complex matrix

Analytics

Autonomy

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Security Management, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, Business Management, or related field (Master’s preferred)

Job description

Security Manager CEE Zone

Function/Department: Workplace Safety, Security & Standards | Global Security & Resilience

Location: Budapest, Hungary or Warsaw, Poland

Mission

The Zone Security Leader supports the Regional Security Leader by driving the operational execution of security programs across multiple countries within the zone. This role ensures consistent implementation of global and regional policies, oversees country security leaders, and strengthens day‑to‑day performance, compliance, and incident readiness.

The Zone Security Leader acts as the primary coordination point between regional strategy and local execution.

What You’ll Do

Governance & Oversight:

• consistent application of global and regional security policies, standards, and procedures across the zone.
• Guide and support country security leaders, ensuring alignment with regional governance, performance expectations, and team development processes.
• Oversee onboarding, competency development, and performance management activities for the zone security team.
• Coordinate security awareness efforts, sharing lessons learned, best practices, and updates to reinforce a strong security culture at the local level.
• Support the standardization and optimization of security systems and technologies, ensuring alignment with regional and global operating models.
• Monitor and track zone-level KPIs, drive local follow-up actions, and provide concise, accurate updates to the Regional Security Leader.
• Serve as the zone security liaison, ensuring effective communication between country-level security communities, zone leadership, and cross‑functional teams.
• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of security frameworks and standards, ensuring harmonized execution across all countries in the zone.
• Support compliance and assurance reviews, ensuring controls are regularly validated, documented, and continuously improved.

Risk Management:

• Coordinate risk and threat assessments across all countries in the zone, ensuring consistent methodology and timely identification of emerging risks.
• Track and support the implementation of security controls and projects, ensuring alignment with Group standards and escalating deviations or roadblocks.
• Monitor control effectiveness and identify recurring vulnerabilities or systemic gaps, sharing insights with regional leadership for strategic action.
• Provide local operational advisories to help country leaders make informed decisions and maintain appropriate risk posture.

Incident Management:

• Support country security leaders in incident response, ensuring timely reporting, accurate documentation, and consistent application of corrective actions.
• Coordinate incident escalation to the region for high‑risk events and ensure clear, structured communication throughout the lifecycle of the incident.
• Support crisis response and preparedness activities, including exercises, ensuring alignment with global and regional protocols.
• Contribute to after‑action reviews, identifying trends, ensuring implementation of corrective actions across countries, and reinforcing process improvements to reduce future risk.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Security Management, Risk Management, Criminal Justice, Business Management, or a related field (master’s preferred)
• 8+ years’ experience in a security/risk management role
• Excellent knowledge of working in a complex matrix organization
• Stakeholder management across various cultures, functional disciplines, and seniority, influencing and negotiating skills
• Understanding of Business Operations’ structures and ways of working
• Leading agent of change
• Strong analytics and data management
• Ability to critically evaluate proposals and opportunities
• Be solution driven, curious, ask why, keep the big picture in mind
• Be decisive and take ownership
• Be able to work autonomously
• Fluent in English

What’s in It for You?

Schneider Electric believes in rewarding and recognizing employees who contribute to the success of the Company. We seek out and reward people for putting the customer first, being disruptive to the status quo, embracing different perspectives, continuously learning, and acting like owners.

• Competitive compensation package, according to industry standards including annual bonus, cafeteria, life insurance, health care & pension fund contribution, Medicover package and a lot more.
• WESOP (World Employee Share Option Program), our unique program with the opportunity to become a shareholder in the company.
• Inclusive Environment: We build a culture of respect where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. We are fully committed to inclusion, and our policies and culture reflect this commitment.
• Global Family Leave Package to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Exceptional career opportunities not only locally, but on an international scope as well.
• Continuous development and learning possibilities, personally and professionally.
• We work in a hybrid set-up to fit with your lifestyle

Company Culture & Values

At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.

Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you". It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.

Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you.

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: health and life insurance, paid time off, parental and care leave, flexible work options, support for chronic conditions, and confidential counseling for life’s challenges.

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short-term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares, and pension saving matching contribution.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program, sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support youth education.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career? When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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