Senior Manager Regional Security LATAM

Leads the Regional Security program for Latin America, with primary focus on protecting Emerson employees, travelers, visitors, executives, assets, and business operations. The role is responsible for planning, implementing, improving, and governing security programs across the region, including crisis management, travel risk management, incident response, executive protection, workplace violence prevention, security intelligence, vendor governance, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned with Emerson Global Security standards.

• Lead the Regional Security strategy and daily security operations for Latin America, ensuring alignment with Emerson Global Security policies, standards, and business priorities.
• Protect Emerson employees, travelers, visitors, executives, assets, and operations through proactive risk identification, mitigation planning, incident response, and continuous improvement of security programs.
• Monitor, analyze, and communicate regional security risks, emerging threats, geopolitical developments, crime trends, civil unrest, natural hazards, and other events that may impact employees, travelers, sites, or business continuity.
• Lead regional crisis management and incident response for security events, including workplace violence, threats, extortion, civil unrest, executive travel concerns, medical/security emergencies, and other critical incidents.
  
  Manage and continuously improve the regional travel risk management program, including traveler support, escalation protocols, high-risk travel reviews, pre-travel guidance, and coordination with global travel security providers and travel agency resources.
• Coordinate executive protection planning and security support for senior leadership visits, high‑risk travel, special events, and other activities requiring enhanced security oversight.
• Partner with Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, EHS, Communications, Facilities, IT, and business leaders on workplace violence prevention, employee safety concerns, investigations, threat management, and sensitive security matters.
• Support internal investigations and maintain effective liaison relationships with law enforcement, government entities, industry groups, professional associations, intelligence sources, and trusted security networks.
• Manage the regional security contact network, including third‑party security providers, consultants, protective services, intelligence vendors, and local response partners; escalates performance, quality, compliance, or service issues as required.
• Provide written reports, verbal briefings, incident updates, executive summaries, after‑action reviews, and recommendations to Global Security leadership, regional business leaders, and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure crisis management, incident response, site security, and travel security procedures are current, tested, understood, and effective across the region.
• Drive security program governance through KPIs, dashboards, work plans, corrective actions, lessons learned, and evidence‑based performance tracking.
• Support the development, implementation, and improvement of digital security tools, reporting platforms, mobile applications, automation capabilities, and AI‑enabled opportunities that improve employee safety and reduce administrative workload.
• Lead, coach, and develop regional security team members and security points of contact, ensuring clear accountability, project execution, stakeholder engagement, and professional growth.
• Manage the regional security budget, vendor costs, service quality, and resource allocation to support operational requirements and business priorities.
• Maintain participation in relevant security organizations, forums, industry groups, and country…