Physical Security Senior Manager

The role

To develop the entity’s international physical security system, including oversight, standards, and operations. It ensures the organization protects its people, information, and assets in a multi-jurisdiction office network and during major events. This role offers senior assurance, risk leadership, and crisis advisory. It supports consistent, proportionate security controls. These controls meet legal requirements and align with the Arms' risk appetite and operational resilience obligations.

All Arm offices globally (owned/leased), labs, partner-facing locations, and major organization events. Coordinate worldwide security operations by ensuring consistent guarding and supervision. Handle blocking issues, lead entry management and visitor oversight. Identify and follow crucial indicators for leading incident resolution, system functionality, and vendor delivery.

Workplace leadership (Facilities, H&S), including property portfolio. Global, Regional, and local site management across the organization.

Building landlords and leading agents (including shared-space governance).

Lead the transformation and maturation of security operations from legacy practices to a scalable, intelligence-led capability aligned to Enterprise Security and business risk. Develop and implement a multi-year Physical Security roadmap, crafting frameworks, standards, and operating models that support consistent, risk-based security across global sites.

Develop and supervise a risk-based Executive Protection program, ensuring appropriate protection measures for executive leadership across offices, travel, and events.

Support Physical Security Director to define and maintain the global physical security strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligned to Arm’s priorities, growth, and risk appetite.

Own and maintain the organization’s physical security policy and technical/operational standards.

Partner with Cyber Security (Part of Enterprise Security) and Enterprise IT to ensure physical security controls integrate with cybersecurity and information protection (e.g., secure areas, badge-to-network logic where applicable).

Serve as the organization’s senior physical security advisor during major incidents, crises and heightened threat periods.

Set the organization’s security requirements for major events, including risk-tiering, minimum controls, and critical issue routes.

Define the global supplier strategy for physical security (guarding, systems, monitoring, risk intelligence).

Set the capability framework and training standards for security participants (Facilities, Office Management, Event Owners, Reception).

Clear, adopted and embedded global security standards with transparent exceptions management.

Significant experience leading multi-site / multi-jurisdiction physical security programmes in a complex professional services, corporate, technology or similarly regulated environment.

• Demonstrable track record in:
• physical security strategy, governance and standards
• risk assessment methodologies and assurance/audit program.
• major incident and crisis support (senior advisory role)
• real estate project security design and delivery oversight
• vendor governance and commercial oversight
• Experience in technology or IP-sensitive environments
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST, and TISAX
• Comfortably influencing senior partners in a matrix environment and driving outcomes without direct line control.
• Solid understanding of physical security controls and systems (access control, CCTV, secure area design, visitor management).
• Solid grasp of risk-based security planning and security-by-design principles.
• Solid understanding of privacy and proportionality considerations for monitoring technologies.
• Ability to integrate physical security with operational resilience, business continuity and information security.
• Membership of a recognized security body (e.g., ASIS, Security Institute) or equivalent desirable.
• Relevant professional training/certification in risk, security management, crisis management, or resilience (desirable, not required).

$198,100-$268,000 per year

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.