Corporate Security Specialist

Why join us
By joining our team as a Corporate Security Specialist, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the safety and security of our business, colleagues, and customers. Collaborating closely with the Corporate Security Manager, you will play a crucial role in implementing effective security solutions and procedures to mitigate potential threats and risks. With the support and resources available, you will have the freedom to develop security initiatives and training programmes that will enhance our overall security culture. We foster a collaborative and dynamic work environment, allowing you to work across different business areas and external parties to influence change and ensure compliance with legislation requirements. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to proactively safeguarding our organisation and promoting a secure environment for all.

What you'll do
As a Corporate Security Specialist, you will collaborate with the Corporate Security Manager to proactively identify and implement operating procedures, security solutions, and infrastructure across our business to reduce potential threats and risks. You will play a vital role in improving the overall security culture by developing initiatives, conducting training programmes, and raising awareness. Using industry benchmarking and crime forecasting, you will implement solutions and initiatives to minimise the risk of harm towards our colleagues and customers. Additionally, you will develop security operating procedures, establish governance routines, participate in external forums, and conduct threat / risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and enhance security culture and awareness. Your expertise will also be instrumental in managing incidents, conducting scenario exercises, and successfully collaborating with various business functions.

Who you are
As a Corporate Security Specialist for our Channel Operations division, you are a highly experienced professional with in-depth knowledge of criminal investigations, processes, and procedures, specifically within a commercially operated business. Your expertise in project management, combined with strong influencing skills, allows you to successfully implement security initiatives and solutions to reduce risks and threats to our colleagues and customers. With your comprehensive understanding of emergency services protocols and incident management procedures, you play a pivotal role in developing and implementing security operating procedures in line with legislation requirements. Your collaborative approach enables you to work effectively across different business functions and teams, providing recommendations to improve security culture, infrastructure, and operating procedures. Your ability to challenge the status quo and find innovative solutions, coupled with your resilience and flexibility in adapting to changing contexts, make you an invaluable asset to our Crime & Security team.

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.

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).