Travel Risk & Event Security Specialist

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Job Description:

Overview:

Sun Life’s Physical Security & Crisis Management department is looking for a Travel Risk & Event Security Specialist. Our department manages a best-in-class corporate physical risk management and asset protection program, safeguarding Sun Life’s people and operations worldwide.

Our dynamic group of professionals delivers effective oversight, assessment, consulting, and support services in enterprise physical risk management. This includes global incident monitoring and crisis response, physical security systems and technology, travel risk, enhanced personnel protection, as well as occupational health & safety. The role reports to the Manager, Enhanced Personnel Protection (EPP).

Role Summary:

The successful candidate will work with a team responsible for executing our travel risk management, executive protection, and event security requirements in support of personnel and asset protection through risk assessments, reporting, consulting, onsite presence, awareness, and education. This position will maintain strong partnerships with both internal and external business partners, as well as provide active support to risk programs for our global operations. In collaboration with colleagues and internal partners, this position will be a driving force for program effectiveness, enhancements, and high-quality delivery of services.

What you will do:

• Oversee event security and compiling threat risk intelligence on geopolitical concerns, security risks such as crime, terrorism, civil unrest, and travel risk to ensure traveler safety.
• Provide on-site support for high profile events and meetings which may include personnel protection, organizing movements to and from transportation, and supervising security contractors. Some North American and International travel required.
• Provide relevant and timely situational awareness briefs, and travel briefs in collaboration with our third-party security, medical, and travel risk vendors.
• Create and maintain risk profiles on high profile members of the organization.
• Prepare detailed event security risk assessments and security operational plans to support off-site events globally.
• our travel risk vendor to review, create, and maintain our global major location evacuation plans and escalation matrixes.
• Participate and contribute to industry related threat intelligence roundtables, groups or committee’s pertaining to executive protection, travel risk management and event security.
• Maintain strong working relationships with business leaders to ensure that the quality of services provided meet our objectives.
• This position may interface directly with external security departments and vendors.

Decision-Making Authority

• Works in tandem with the Manager, EPP to implement program priorities.

What your need to succeed:

• Degree or diploma in security, investigation, or risk management; or comparable professional education/training in a field relevant to security or investigation management.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with travel risk, event security and executive protection.
• Professional designation preferred in security or investigations management.
• Knowledge or experience in dealing with third party vendors that deal with, travel and medical risk, political, security and integrity risk is considered an asset.

Preferred Skills:

• Exceptional customer service and negotiation skills along with a high level of integrity.
• Ability to effectively navigate a highly complex organization.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, as this position will be expected to communicate at all levels with precision and clarity.
• Developed organizational skills and the ability to scope and prioritize a wide range of tasks.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Experience working with both internal teams and contracted operations.
• Demonstrated sensitivity to issues of ethics, diversity, equity, and harassment in the workplace.
• Self-starter with strong collaboration skills.

Assets:

• Fundamental knowledge of intelligence and investigative principles, protocols, practices, and industry standards.
• Familiarity with the Financial Services Industry would be ideal, although is not required.
• Skilled with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Comfortable with travel requirements across portfolio, as required.
• Understanding of International SOS, Seerist, and Control Risks.

Notes/Unique Requirements

• Risk management of the workplace continues to evolve in an increasingly hybrid work environment. This presents challenges and opportunities for the experienced risk practitioner.
• Collaborate across a global enterprise with the expectation to be on call 24/7 during emergency situations including the navigation through high stress and fast paced reaction times associated with crisis management and emergency response.
• This position may interact with senior management at the Corporate and Business Group level, peers within Corporate Compliance, Information Security, Risk & Governance, Business Continuity, Corporate Real Estate and Human Resources in the delivery of physical security, crisis management and emergency response services related to both security and travel risk.
• Consequences of errors in judgment or decision making could place human life and safety at risk or result in significant legal liability and harm to company reputation.

What’s in it for you:

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• We’re proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health - mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office.

Candidates must be eligible for Reliability Status Clearance, which requires that they have lived and worked in Canada for the past 5 consecutive years. No exceptions, please.

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The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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