Sr. Global Protective Security Operations Specialist

Security Executive Council; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumina in San Diego, CA seeks a Sr. Global Protective Security Operations Specialist to lead travel security, executive protection, and investigations. The role operates across global risk, threat monitoring, and incident response to protect personnel, assets and reputation.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in corporate security, travel risk, and investigations, with a bachelor’s degree and strong written communication. Will join a fast-paced, collaborative security team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive security experience in corporate security, global intelligence, executive protection, or equivalent.
• Investigative background with history of managing investigations, threat assessments and threat monitoring.
• Experience planning and executing security protection operations.
• Understanding of global geopolitical issues and threats and their impact to the business.

Responsibilities

• Administer global travel security and related systems, vendor and stakeholder management.
• Conduct travel risk assessments and provide security guidance and briefings for executives and critical travelers.
• Lead design and implementation of security plans for major events and executive protection operations.
• Produce intelligence products and incident reports to support decision making.
• Support crisis management with timely intelligence and incident response.

Skills

Travel Security

Executive protection

Threat monitoring

Geopolitical risk

Security operations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Sr. Global Protective Security Operations Specialist

Description

About the job

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Description

The Global Protective Security Operations Specialist will report to the Senior Director, Global Security in close coordination with the Regional Security Managers, and relevant business stakeholders. This role requires a highly adaptable security professional capable of seamlessly shifting between proactive global travel risk mitigation, high visibility corporate event and executive protection security, and performing discreet internal investigations. This role is cross-functional and requires a well-organized and detail-oriented individual with a “low-profile, high-impact” mindset. This role will be based in San Diego California at the Illumina Headquarters.

The Global Protective Security Operations Specialist will have significant knowledge and operational experience in High-Risk Travel Security. They will monitor worldwide events through use of open source and tactical intelligence platforms and perform continuous geopolitical risk assessments and threat monitoring to assess the real and potential impacts upon Illumina personnel, operations, physical assets, brand, and reputation.

This role will also be critical to facilitating event security for VIPs, company executives or employee attendance during corporate activities, public appearances, and high-profile engagements.

The Global Protective Security Operations Specialist will be responsible for supporting and/or leading security investigations to resolve internal or external threats to the organization. The role requires the ability to conduct thorough, discreet, and legally compliant investigations into corporate threats of workplace violence or harassment, insider threats, and financial loss or intellectual property theft targeting the executive team or organization.

The Global Security Investigator may serve on various campus wide planning teams for the physical security systems program and provides support for all aspects of program development. policy compliance and site-based crisis management

• Administration of the global travel security function, to include all systems, assessments, communications, vendor and stakeholder management associated with the delivery of a best-in-class travel security service.
• Review, assess, and support approval processes for travel to high-risk and restricted destinations in accordance with illumina travel risk management policies and duty of care requirements.
• Conduct travel risk assessments and provide destination-specific security guidance, contingency planning, and security briefings for employees, executive leadership, and business-critical travellers.
• Utilize intelligence resources for travel-related threat information on a global basis, including internet, databases, public records, media, law enforcement, government sources, contracted services, and other related resources; determine local threat environment for travel to moderate-to-high-threat countries
• Work with the Global Security Team and Illumina Security Operations Center (ISOC) to monitor, research, analyze and provide intelligence regarding emerging threats and trends worldwide that may impact Illumina campuses, operations, remote or on campus staff.
• Produce tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence products including travel advisories, country risk assessments, executive briefings, incident reports, and crisis updates to support business decision-making.
• Monitor global events and emerging risks that may impact traveling employees and provide timely recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive security plans for board or shareholder meetings, product launches, and large-scale corporate events.
• Manage venue security operations, including access control, crowd management, asset protection, and technical surveillance countermeasures.
• Support Illumina Crisis Management operations by providing timely and actionable intelligence in support or emerging crisis
• Develop and deliver effective security awareness solutions to staff across the global footprint.
• Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and executive reporting dashboards to measure program effectiveness, identify trends, and support data-driven decision making.
• Interface with other business areas and sectors to accomplish cooperative goals, representing Global Security in multidisciplinary initiatives.
• Build relationships with stakeholders internally and suppliers externally to support the delivery of the program.
• Assist with the implementation of employee safety programs that aid in the prevention of threats and violence in the workplace and support our incident response.
• Support regional security investigations, in conjunction with regional Security, HR, Legal, and Compliance.
• Liaising with Health and Safety counterparts to create and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive security experience directly within corporate security, global intelligence, executive protection, or specialized military/law enforcement units.
• Minimum educational requirement of a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience of working in a travel security or risk assessment function within a corporate environment or government agency.
• Investigative background with a history of successfully managing investigations, threat assessments, and threat monitoring.
• Experience planning and executing security protection operations.
• Understanding of global geopolitical issues and threats to/from various regions of the world and their impact to Illumina’s business
• Ability to adapt to an open, transparent, and highly collaborative corporate culture and effectively balance security with company values and business interests
• Ability to manage in a fast-paced environment, and support the strategic direction of new programs
• Demonstrated strong critical thinking and writing skills with abilities to communicate complex ideas and analysis in a brief, accurate, and relevant way to a variety of audiences up to senior executive management
• Excellent written and verbal communication and report writing skills (English); fluency in a second language preferred.
• Comfortable and confident to work and deliver unsupervised at the same time willing to take on additional work responsibilities and stand in for team members as required, demonstrating dependability.
• Proficiency in operational performance management with skills in technology enablement tools, platforms and systems.

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for the Sr Global Protective Security Operations Specialist role based in the United States of America is: $90,000 - $135,000. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. The range reflects long term growth in the role; therefore, most candidates are hired between the minimum and middle of the range. Placement depends on experience, skills, location, and internal equity. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.

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