Manager, Security Operations & Resilience
McKinsey & Company
Operations
Hanoi, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi, Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Jakarta, Indonesia · United Kingdom · London, UK · Manchester, UK
Posted on Apr 14, 2025
Manager, Security Operations & Resilience
Job ID: 97064
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
As a Regional Manager, Security Operations & Resilience, you will be based in one of our Asia Pacific locations as part of our Firm Security team. This team is responsible for ensuring that the firm is resilient and firm members safe & secure. Programs within firm Security’s portfolio include incident management; travel safety; physical security; event security and protection of our people in all their work contexts.
You will execute global programs with accountability to firm Security and regional leaders, and you will oversee the regional implementation of global study/travel safety programs; as well as resolve complex incidents, threats & hazards in the region.
Managing a regional team, you will ensure that travel safety / study support / incident programs are operating effectively. You will also support local offices working with the Workplace program team to ensure contingency plans are fit for purpose and Security Coordinators are adequately supported.
As with all managers, you will lead the response to incidents and threats. You will triage and quality control responses to questions coming into the team email, as well as maintaining and ensuring the quality of data being inputted into team systems. Furthermore, you are expected to contribute to the team’s knowledge and capabilities, and to develop and train junior team members.
To be truly impactful in this role, you will need to have a high degree of internal connectivity including with regional Location Managers, PD and HR managers. You will also need to be highly networked with geographic peers especially in professional services firms, hotels and OSAC networks.
Your work will directly contribute to keeping our people safe in all the contexts in which they operate, thereby helping enable the Firm to provide impact to clients.
Your Growth
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s degree preferred (security studies, risk management, business administration, or related field)
- 7+ years’ experience in a security or project management role and typically 2+ years’ at a manager level
- Expertise and experience in Asia Pacific, and able to serve as a go-to for the region
- Able to independently conduct / supervise inquiry on risks, threats, hazards; assessments for events, studies; manage mitigations; prepare / QC incident comms
- Advanced incident management and/or program leadership skills
- Values, develops, utilizes external networks
- Excellent organization abilities, including ability to initiate tasks independently and see them to completion
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels
- Able to lead problem solving; proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning
- Ability to create work product-focused materials / outputs, which may include PowerPoint decks, Excel models, articles, or other written deliverables
- Exceptional time management to meet responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
- Ability to work or attend meetings outside of core hours or take on projects with limited or no notice at times
- Collaborative and inclusive
- Able to embrace challenges & ambiguity
- Committed to accuracy
- Open to giving and receiving feedback
- Digitally literate. Cyber literate. Data literate
- Values-driven
- Committed to self-development
- Ability to develop talent in others
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