Specialist, Security Ops and Resilience

You will be a part of the Firm Security Team, whose central mission is to safeguard the security and wellbeing of our colleagues globally. As a team, we are dedicated to supporting our colleagues and have the privilege of seeing our impact on a regular basis.Our team is diverse, with a true global footprint, operating in almost every time zone globally. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity of collaborating closely with this global team and benefiting from a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. At the same time, you will have significant exposure to partners and teams across the firm, including our People, Communications, Technology, Travel, and Legal teams. The position is being offered as a permanent role and strong candidates will be considered in the in the following offices: Bangkok, Colombo, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila.McKinsey & Company is one of the world’s premiere management consulting firms with operations in over 50 countries. The firm provides a full spectrum of consulting services to large corporations, governments, international institutions, and non-profit organizations. The position reports to the Director of Security Resilience within the security resilience portfolio. The position will also work with our Asia team and the successful candidate will have background experience supporting or willingness to support security incidents in the region. The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial with excellent communication skills and a proven record of independent action.  The Security Operations & Resilience Specialist will implement and evolve holistic programs to build, drive, and improve security resilience across a wide array of contexts at the firm. This role will focus on building resilience for Firm Security technology, ensuring that we have effective processes, systems, protocols, and partners in place to successfully drive operational excellence. In particular, the role will focus on three areas of the security technology landscape including: data engineering and analytics, security tooling especially geospatial analytics, and improvements in our case management system, ServiceNow. The successful candidate will be a professional who has a demonstrated track record of leading complex projects and supporting broader programs within the security technology space, strong communication skills, and a dedication to overcoming obstacles to deliver impact. In particular this role will identify, design, build, and deliver a geospatial analytics tool that allows the team to see risks, incidents, and assets in a single pane of glass. The organization is highly decentralized, so the role requires the ability to forge consensus and encourage, rather than mandate, cooperation and participation. As part of all initiatives, the role will successfully manage relationship-building and syndication with key stakeholders within Risk & Compliance, other firm functions, and senior leadership.#LI-MPBackground in geospatial analytics and the ability to implement and manage large-scale solutions Background in security technology tooling such as Service Now, OSINT capabilities, emergency communications tools, or data engineering Undergraduate and/or advanced degree; additional qualifying certifications also consideredDemonstrable track record in leading projects and programs from ideation through solution deployment Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to drive new initiatives with limited information and oversightCreative problem solver with an innovative, solution-oriented mindset Successful track record of navigating senior stakeholders and complex relationshipsHighly collaborative attitude and interest in working as part of a diverse and dispersed global teamStrong ability to advise and guide technical teams to deliver high-impact technical solutionsReady to support the team with safety incidents in the Asia time zone, ideally having some incident related experience, but at least a resilient attitude suited for  time sensitive decision making in sometimes pressured contextsExceptional project-management and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to lead complex initiatives with an uncompromising commitment to quality on both a micro and macro levelExcellent writing and editorial skills, including the ability to distill complex content into clear and compelling communications for distinct audiences and messagesExemplary oral communication skills, demonstrating strong professional presence and credibilityAbility to work across all levels of seniority, cultivating trust-based, peer-counselor relationships