As a Security Specialist you will work collaboratively with the Corporate Security Manager to reduce the opportunity for potential threats and risks to our business being generated by proactively identifying and implementing appropriate operating procedures, security solutions, and security infrastructure across the estate. You will work cross-functionally with different business areas and external parties to influence business change and to deliver legislation requirements.

More about the role

• Development of security initiatives, training opportunities, and awareness to significantly improve the overall security culture within our business.
• Implementation of solutions and initiatives based on industry benchmarking and crime forecasting to proactively reduce the risk of threat and harm towards our colleagues and customers across our business.
• Development of security operating procedures in line with legislation requirements, and generation of guidance documentation to provide further knowledge and awareness to react and respond to security-related incidents within the business.
• Establish appropriate governance routines to support project programme management and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to accelerate the progression of key security related projects and initiatives.
• Participation in external working groups and forums to actively influence on behalf of the business, gathering key information and insight that will support the delivery of security related projects and initiatives.
• Responsible for the completion of dynamic threat/risk assessments across the estate, generating associated reports that identify vulnerabilities and opportunities to improve security culture and awareness.
• Support in incident management routines and associated governance practises
• Development and implementation of scenario desktop exercises to evaluate the robustness of existing incident management routines.

More about you

• Detailed understanding of criminal investigations, processes and procedures, and the application of criminal law in a commercially operated business.
• Proven track record of successful project management. Demonstrate strong influencing skills and high levels of resilience to support successful project delivery.
• Confidence to challenge the status quo, continually looking for better ways of working and solutions.
• Comprehensive understanding of emergency services protocols and associated incident management procedures.
• Detailed knowledge of current and planned legislation and a comprehensive understanding of the project management framework techniques.
• Experience working successfully and collaboratively across different business functions and teams.
• Flexibility to specialise in a particular project or security-related initiative.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store facing, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centre work, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.