Job Description

Position Summary:

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.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• 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; escalate 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 councils to strengthen intelligence, benchmarking, and professional networks.
• Identify and advance strategic improvement opportunities and perform other responsibilities as assigned by Global Security leadership.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in corporate security, regional security management, law enforcement, military, intelligence, crisis management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading security operations across multiple countries, preferably within Latin America or other complex operating environments.
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent professional experience, required.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• Strong experience in crisis management, incident response, threat assessment, travel risk management, workplace violence prevention, executive protection, investigations support, and site security programs.
• Ability to interpret regional security intelligence, assess risk, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate timely recommendations to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage security vendors, consultants, contracts, budgets, service performance, and compliance expectations.
• Experience developing reports, executive briefings, incident summaries, after-action reviews, KPIs, dashboards, and evidence-based program updates.
• Comfortable working with senior management, cross-functional stakeholders, regional teams, and external partners in sensitive, time-critical, and high-pressure situations.
• High standards of professional responsibility, judgment, confidentiality, personal integrity, cultural awareness, and operational discipline.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce concise, executive-level communications.
• Excellent oral and written English and Spanish language skills required; Portuguese language capability desirable.
• Ability to travel 25%+ as required to support regional security operations, site engagement, executive travel, incident response, and stakeholder relationships.

Our Culture & Commitment to You

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, vacation and holiday leave.

WHY EMERSON

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

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ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.

With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!

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