Manager, Risk & Security - Americas

Job Description:

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring a Manager, Risk & Security – Americas for our team based out of our global headquarters. This is a hybrid role balancing requirements between remote and on-site work in our NYC office.  You will also be expected to travel up to 30% of the year both domestically and internationally. 

Join Dow Jones's Global Risk & Security Team: we don't constrain operations—we safely enable them. In our fast-changing landscape, risk is opportunity. You are a creative, analytical, solution-focused utility player ready to take on challenging and rewarding work, providing critical regional coverage for the Americas. Reporting to the Head of Global Operations and Insights, you will also work closely with functional leaders across the team.

YOU WILL

• Participate in global risk mitigation: work within the team to ensure current and emerging risks are effectively identified, assessed, communicated, and mitigated. 

• Serve as a trusted risk advisor: forge relationships with people across the company. Provide advice to staff, contractors, and decision makers on risk, security, and operational challenges.

• Undertake strategy, establish process, and customize tooling: contribute to team best practices including planning, process improvement, risk mitigation, and responding to new challenges.

• Work on the following functional areas: support functional leaders within the team on their global work portfolio: high-risk support, workplace safety & security, resilience, executive protection, event security, training, and global operations.

• Undertake incident management: play a key role supporting incident management through aggressive and active intervention, coordination, information provision and problem solving, while providing compassionate and reasoned support to those involved. 

• Help the team maintain knowledge and a competitive advantage: engage in industry working groups to track trends, technologies, and best practices in risk and media security.  

• Project management: effectively manage multi-tasking, covering research, coordination, operational planning, project planning, stakeholder management/communications, logistics, and administrative duties such as weekly/monthly reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

We are seeking a dynamic, mission-focused, and proactive contributor, with hands-on operational risk, resilience, and security expertise, a desire for continuous learning, and the following core skills:

Operational Expertise 

• 7+ years of proven experience in a global safety and/or security management role at similarly complex organizations.

• Expert at developing and implementing procedures to resolve operational and security issues in austere, conflict, or less-developed environments.

Incident Management

• Experienced in the full lifecycle of incident and emergency response (identification, support, review, and analysis), effectively ensuring business resilience through stakeholder and leadership communication.

Strategic Insight and Planning

• A critical thinker with a strong interest in global events (i.e. you consume news and analysis to stay abreast of the world),  and a keen understanding of how social/political/conflict dynamics affect risk.

• Experience in creating strategic milestones and roadmaps.

Communication

• Clear and concise verbal and written communicator able to brief, influence, and translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms, tailoring style to the audience.

Comfortable with Ambiguity and Solution-Oriented 

• Must be willing to dive into ambiguous, challenging situations and projects, create order, and process. 

• Identify problems and proactively design solutions. Bias to action, create a minimum viable way forward, and then iterate and improve.

Logistics

• Willing and able to travel ~30% (domestic and international) and work on-site in our NYC office as required.

• Sometimes work an irregular schedule (early morning, evenings and occasionally weekends).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An understanding of Americas regional geopolitical dynamics and risks.

• Experience applying global risk management, security, and training solutions within a global organization.

• An understanding of newsgathering, risk, and digital/physical safety nexus.

• Aptitude to learn and apply novel technology solutions e.g. AI, workflow tools, and provide inputs into technical design documents for third party tooling.

• Receptive to direct feedback and open to stretch learning opportunities.

• Bonus if you have:

  • Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese

  • Previous media organization experience

  • Any compliance/control certifications, and 

  • Demonstrated academic/professional background in political science and/or international affairs.

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OUR BENEFITS

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle Programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

 

Learn more about all our US benefits.

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - People - Security

Job Category:

General Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: 130,000 - 160,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..