Senior Regional Security Manager, EMEA & APAC

Job Description

Introduction

Welcome to Gallagher - a global community of people who bring bold ideas, deep expertise, and a shared commitment to doing what’s right. We help clients navigate complexity with confidence by empowering businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you’ll find more than a job; you’ll find a culture built on trust, driven by collaboration, and sustained by the belief that we’re better together. Whether you join us in a client-facing role or as part of our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and be part of something bigger. Experience a workplace where you’re encouraged to be yourself, supported to succeed, and inspired to keep learning. That’s what it means to live The Gallagher Way.

Are you ready to lead and shape the future of security across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, and the Asia Pacific regions? At Gallagher, we are looking for a Senior Regional Security Manager to join our team and take charge of physical security, life safety, risk management, and incident response operations. This senior leadership role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by driving operational excellence, enhancing security programs, and ensuring alignment with global standards.

In this role, you'll lead the charge in developing and optimising security programs across diverse regions, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations. You'll oversee daily security operations, manage vendor relationships, and act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll ensure that security processes integrate seamlessly with business operations. You'll also play a pivotal role in incident response, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring the safety and security of our people, facilities, and operations.

Here’s how you’ll contribute:

• Evaluate and enhance regional security operations to drive efficiency and consistency.
• Adapt global security policies to align with local regulatory and privacy requirements.
• Oversee daily security operations across multiple locations with varying levels of maturity.
• Serve as the regional escalation authority for incidents, crises, and executive risk matters.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including law enforcement and community organisations.
• Provide actionable insights and reporting to senior business leaders and Global Safety & Security leadership.

Here’s what you’ll bring to the role:

• Proven years of experience in corporate security, risk management, or crisis response with an international scope.
• Proven ability to enhance or optimise security operations in multi-country environments.
• Strong understanding of European privacy, labour, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience collaborating with GSOCs and contributing to incident response across time zones.
• Exceptional vendor management and executive communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office and the ability to travel within the regions of responsibility (25-40%) and occasionally to the United States.

Preferred qualifications include:

• A bachelor’s degree in Security Management, International Relations, Emergency Management, or a related field.
• Certifications such as Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) or ISO 31000 Risk Management.
• Experience in regulated industries like insurance or financial services.

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On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [email protected] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.