Director, Global Security
almost 4 years ago
Full time role
Redwood City, CA, US
Redwood City, CA, US
Job Description
Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric C02 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job openings and requirements below:
The Director Global Security will be responsible for the development of the Global Security program at Impossible Foods, with a charter and vision that supports employee safety and workplace security. This role reports to the Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety, Global Security. Your focus will include:
- All elements of the physical security of our people and facilities, including intellectual property protection, crisis management, security operations, investigations, corporate travel, executive safety and security, global events, security systems and infrastructure, and threat management. - You will also develop and manage excellence in workplace safety programming for each facility, including current manufacturing locations and new facilities.
As the leader for security, it will be vital to identify and assess current programming and its effectiveness in addressing known risks, and resourcing to address gaps. You have already established yourself with a tenured career at high-growth organizations, and have the ability to scale programs as the risk environment changes. Advanced financial analysis skills, development of output metrics and key performance indicators, vendor management, and presentation skills are key competencies for success in this role. You are a highly motivated leader who challenges assumptions to build a program that is innovative, and are an independent thinker and leader who can execute projects across the organization while collaborating with multiple teams and interests.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job openings and requirements below:
The Director Global Security will be responsible for the development of the Global Security program at Impossible Foods, with a charter and vision that supports employee safety and workplace security. This role reports to the Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety, Global Security. Your focus will include:
- All elements of the physical security of our people and facilities, including intellectual property protection, crisis management, security operations, investigations, corporate travel, executive safety and security, global events, security systems and infrastructure, and threat management. - You will also develop and manage excellence in workplace safety programming for each facility, including current manufacturing locations and new facilities.
As the leader for security, it will be vital to identify and assess current programming and its effectiveness in addressing known risks, and resourcing to address gaps. You have already established yourself with a tenured career at high-growth organizations, and have the ability to scale programs as the risk environment changes. Advanced financial analysis skills, development of output metrics and key performance indicators, vendor management, and presentation skills are key competencies for success in this role. You are a highly motivated leader who challenges assumptions to build a program that is innovative, and are an independent thinker and leader who can execute projects across the organization while collaborating with multiple teams and interests.
You Will
- Continually assess risk to the organization, and apply mitigation strategies that are efficient, targeted, and scaled appropriately.
- Define and lead a comprehensive security ecosystem that ensures that the company (people, intellectual property, technology, assets, and facilities) are protected against loss, disruption, physical harm and/or reputational damage.
- Lead and run on-site security at all facilities. This includes, event and executive security.
- Support the VP of Safety and Security in special projects as assigned, including conducting security related investigations, and activities related to intelligence programs as well as fraud detection and prevention.
- Work collaboratively with Employment Legal Counsel, Human Resources, Facilities, and IT teams to develop cross functional risk management policy and processes that protect IF.
You Have
- An undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
- A minimum ten years management and corporate security experience or 15 years of experience with a major law enforcement, intelligence, public or private security organization
- A demonstrated experience and exposure in the international law enforcement or security arena.
- A strategic orientation with ability to act tactically.
- A global perspective, multi-cultural understanding and approach
- Excellent conceptual and critical thinking skills.
- High integrity
- Strong negotiator/facilitator and consensus builder
- Will require travel to sites, possibly on short notice
- May require international travel
- On call 24 x 7
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