Senior Manager – Security and Safety

CDW; Vernon Hills (IL); On-site; USD 144,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus target 15%

Benefits overview link: https://cdw.b2

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Senior Manager, Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) to provide strategic leadership and oversight of 24/7 security operations across a global footprint.

This role serves as a primary decision-maker for global GSOC operations and is empowered to act on behalf of senior security leadership during their absence, including authority over incident response, staffing, budgets, and vendor relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience inclusive of at least 3 years of people leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of security tech including access control, analytics, and identity solutions.
• Experience with investigative tactics and coworker safety practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication with executives and law enforcement.
• Proven leadership with ability to direct and develop a cohesive team.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for a 24/7 Global Security Operations Center.
• Lead enterprise incident and crisis management activities with cross-functional coordination.
• Facilitate executive crisis management bridge calls and maintain incident documentation.
• Oversee threat monitoring using Genetec and related platforms for timely assessments.
• Develop security communications and alerts for leadership and staff.
• Manage GSOC staffing, training, and performance management.
• Oversee GSOC technology platforms, access control, video management, and mass notification.
• Develop and manage GSOC budgets, vendor contracts, and SLAs.
• Align security operations with enterprise priorities and business continuity.

Skills

Leadership

GSOC operations

Incident response

Crisis management

Security analytics

Threat intelligence

Policy compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (plus)

Tools

Genetec

Video management

Operations Center

Job description

Job Summary The Senior Manager, Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) is responsible for strategic leadership, operational oversight, and day-to-day execution of enterprise security operations across a global footprint. This role serves as a primary decision-maker for global GSOC operations and is fully empowered to act on behalf of senior security leadership during their absence, including authority over incident response, personnel decisions, and escalation management. The Senior Manager oversees GSOC staffing, technology platforms, budgets, vendor relationships, and performance metrics, while leading crisis response, driving operational excellence, and ensuring alignment with organizational risk tolerance, compliance requirements, and business continuity objectives. In addition, this role directs intelligence gathering and threat monitoring activities, synthesizing internal and external information into actionable insights, and oversees timely, accurate security communications to the broader organization to ensure leadership and coworkers are informed, prepared, and able to respond appropriately to emerging risks.

What you will do:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for a 24/7 Global Security Operations Center, ensuring continuous monitoring, incident detection, and coordinated response across CDW’s global enterprise.
• Lead enterprise incident and crisis management activities, including threat assessment, executive notifications, cross-functional coordination, and post-incident reviews.
• Facilitates executive crisis management bridge calls using the GSOC as the central coordination vehicle, aligning C-suite leadership, ensuring accurate situational awareness, driving timely decision-making, and maintaining clear documentation and follow-up actions through incident resolution.
• Manages intelligence gathering and threat monitoring efforts, leveraging Genetec / Operations Center platforms to integrate internal data, open-source intelligence, vendor intelligence feeds (e.g., Dataminr), and law enforcement or trusted partner information into timely, actionable assessments.
• Oversee the development, approval, and dissemination of security communications and alerts to coworkers and leadership, ensuring clarity, timeliness, and alignment with organizational risk posture.
• Manage GSOC staffing models, scheduling, training, and performance management to maintain operational readiness and analyst effectiveness.
• Manages GSOC technology platforms and tools, including monitoring systems, access control, video management, incident management, and mass notification solutions.
• Develops and manage GSOC budgets, vendor contracts, and service-level agreements, ensuring fiscal accountability and operational value.
• Partner with business units and design relevant security systems to enable safe and efficient operations.
• Establish and track key performance indicators through, metrics, and reporting to measure GSOC effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with IT, CWS, Legal, Facilities, and Business Continuity to align security operations with enterprise priorities.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices while supporting ISO audits and risk assessments.
• Lead after-action reviews and lessons-learned initiatives to strengthen preparedness, response capabilities, and organizational resilience.
• Manage Travel Safety Program enterprise wide.
• Coordinates with all Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies for assistance and guidance during emergencies.
• Manages GSOC analysts, operators, specialists, and contractors supporting 24/7/365 GSOC monitoring and response operations, with accountability for staffing, performance, training, and operational readiness.
• Leads and governs the global response to emergency situations, including civil disturbances, bomb threats, explosions, fires, floods, workplace violence, and other enterprise disruptions covered under the company’s Business Continuity Program (BCP), ensuring executive alignment, timely decision-making, and operational continuity.
• Designs and coordinates the installation, upgrade, and lifecycle management of enterprise electronic security systems, establishing platform standards, managing associated budgets, and overseeing projects related to acquisitions, expansions or remodels, relocations, decommissions, and new construction.
• Subject matter expert (SME) in GSOC operations.

What we expect of you:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience inclusive of at least 3 years of people leadership.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging and evolving security technologies, including next-generation access control, video management and analytics, identity and credentialing solutions, and specialized, technology-enabled security applications.
• Familiar with investigative tactics.
• Knowledge of laws and practices of coworker safety.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with a variety of coworkers, management, executives and law enforcement authorities.
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to direct coworkers and develop a cohesive team.
• Ability to make sound decisions regarding issues or controversies, especially in a disaster or crisis is required.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment preferred and the ability to prioritize multiple and changing initiatives.
• Understands AI-enabled security technologies and their application within GSOC operations, including understanding capabilities, limitations, and appropriate use cases.
• Genetec, or other industry leading security system platform certification(s)
• Master’s Degree, a plus.

Pay range: $ 144,000 - $ 199,800 depending on experience and skill set

Benefits

• A Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
• Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
• annual bonus target of 15% subject to terms and conditions of plan

CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization As a leader, you will champion and be accountable for our vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization. We expect leaders to model curiosity, encourage responsible AI adoption, and foster a culture of continuous learning. You don’t need deep technical expertise, but you should be comfortable exploring how AI can enhance strategy, decision-making, and team performance. Your role includes guiding others in building confidence and capability with AI tools and practices, while promoting openness to experimentation and shared learning. Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.

About Us

About Us CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities. As a full‑stack, full‑lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next. Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.

CDW is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.

At CDW, we make technology work so people do great things. We are a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Our coworkers across the globe are working together to bring technology to life for our customers by solving complicated IT business challenges, providing outstanding service, and orchestrating the technology landscape to optimize our customers’ performance.