Security Operations Center Senior Manager

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Job Summary

Under the supervision of Accenture's Global Assistance and Protection (GAP) leadership team, the applicant will manage San Antonios Security Operations Center (SOC), which is responsible for providing real-time awareness, rapid response, and critical analysis to support decision-making to safeguard Accenture's people, property, and information.

When necessary, the Senior Manager will support shift supervisors and other SOC analysts by demonstrating the ability to monitor cameras and alarms, dispatch associated calls via telephone, operate access control technology, partner with crisis management stakeholders, and facilitate necessary escalations. Specifically, incidents may range from extreme weather conditions, political instability, crime, terror, civil unrest, and other personnel issues. In addition, the Senior Manager will be accountable for managing the quality of customer service to travelers, static employees, and potentially third parties. This role will be based in San Antonio, Texas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide senior leadership and expertise across all aspects of Accenture to monitor threats from terrorism and criminal matters, perform impact analysis and report to key decision makers and stakeholders.
• Lead a team to develop, assess, and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize and optimize threat monitoring operations methods and tools to reduce analysis and reporting times and increase security, availability, service agility, and across corporate security team
• Lead and drive the development of innovative threat reporting operations processes and tools from concept to delivery with a focus on the latest innovations, virtualization, and big data.
• Ensure facilities connected to the San Antonio SOC are actively monitored, and appropriate response procedures are carried out based on alerts from access control, CCTV, and other security systems.
• Lead with kindness and prioritize the development of the SOC team to ensure leadership growth and promotion potential.
• Set clear priorities within the SOC to assist the department and company in its overall objectives.
• Provide leadership to manage demands from projects and technology upgrades, including recommendations for vendor tools/solutions.
• Oversee SOC operations projects including budgeting, planning, implementation, maintenance, administration, staffing and logistics.
• Keen understanding of budgets and financials and measuring business value via leading- edge metrics.
• Support adoption of new technologies and tools, and recommend capability improvements to threat analysis and reporting operations.
• Develop strategic roadmaps to ensure security communications goals are met.
• Oversee the shift supervisors daily operations of the SOC, to include training, scheduling, performance, career development, leadership briefings, etc.
• Conduct training and tabletop exercises as necessary for SOC operators to improve on SOC protocols, operator proficiency and readiness.
• Demonstrate expertise developing guidance procedures, review processes and workflows to create efficiencies.
• Liaise, notify, assist, and direct external emergency personnel and internal resources as necessary.
• Interface with security officers, managers, guard force, facilities management, and other operations support functions.
• This position requires schedule flexibility. Candidate must be willing to observe, coach and communicate with all shifts, and on weekends and holidays as necessary
• Perform other tasks and duties of a similar nature and scope as assigned

Job Requirements:

• Ability to work non-standard hours, including weekends and holidays as required.
• Expected travel 5%-10%.
• Requires onsite work in San Antonio, TX

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in law enforcement, strategic planning and or operations for public safety, security or military operations.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading a 24/7 security operations center.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working with Intrusion Detection, Access Control, and CCTV systems.
• Bachelors degree

Preferred Skills

• Excellent organization, analytical, and communication skills
• Rapport and influence building skills
• International experience
• Excellent customer service
• Ability to learn quickly and to multitask; be adaptable and flexible
• Ability to work autonomously and in a team environment, while paying strict attention to detail
• Ability to adhere to timelines and deadlines with effective time management skills
• Must be able to work with and protect highly confidential information
• Strong decision-making ability during emergencies
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change, change management
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional and cross-regional teams to drive collaboration and strategic outcomes for business
• Ability to analyze operational data and summarize for leadership to make informed decisions
• Comfortable with ambiguity with ability to drive towards clarity for positive impact
• ASIS CPP and or PSP certification

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