Corporate Security Manager – Venezuela

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About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Corporate Security sits within the Legal function. Our mission is to protect Diageo's people, assets, reputation, and future development. We achieve this by setting policies, monitoring implementation, and providing decision-makers with expert guidance and services. A deep deterioration of the security situation in high-risk markets could affect our people, logistics operations, product availability, and global business performance.

About the Role

As the Corporate Security Manager based in Caracas, you will manage Corporate Security for Venezuela and directly support the Head of Corporate Security & Brand Protection with strategic tasks across Central America and the Caribbean.

You will act as a strategic advisor on security, risk management, and business continuity. This role requires you to lead with autonomy, initiative, and a results-oriented mindset to design security training, supervise vendors, and maintain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders while ensuring full compliance with corporate standards.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Risk Management

• Design, implement, and lead the comprehensive security strategy for Venezuela.
• Conduct market Risk Assessments, lead the risk committee, and analyze critical organizational positions.
• Protect people, assets, business operations, and reputation while enabling secure business growth.

Brand Protection & Illicit Trade

• Manage corporate risks related to illicit trade, counterfeiting, smuggling, and brand misuse.
• Support and coordinate detailed investigations to protect brand integrity.

Supply Chain & Logistics Security

• Oversee secure imports, national distribution, warehouses, and co-manufacturing operations.
• Manage the transportation control tower and lead strategic meetings with logistics carriers.
• Mitigate theft, transit loss, and supply chain vulnerabilities.

Business Continuity & Crisis Management

• Lead the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) frameworks.
• Coordinate and guide the local Crisis Management Team (CMT) during incidents.

Commercial & Operational Management

• Lead security protocols for corporate events, marketing activations, and product launches.
• Track department KPIs, manage security budgets, and drive continuous improvement.
• Review vendor contracts and enforce strict corporate governance standards.

Stakeholder & Security Culture

• Liaise with local authorities, intelligence networks, and law enforcement agencies.
• Provide executive protection support and coordinate high-profile corporate visits.
• Drive a strong security culture through continuous training, coaching, and awareness initiatives.

Experience and Skills Required

Background & Education

• 8–10 years of experience in corporate security, logistics security, or law enforcement.

• Proven experience working within multinational companies.

• Deep expertise in managing high-risk environments and supply chain operations.

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in managing illicit trade and brand protection risks.

• Solid knowledge of BCM, risk management frameworks, and corporate investigations.

• Professional proficiency in English as a second language.

Leadership & Attributes

• Strong leadership, analytical thinking, decision-making, and absolute confidentiality.

• High autonomy, initiative, and a results-oriented mindset.

• Availability to travel across Central America/Caribbean and provide 24/7 emergency support.

Location

• Caracas, Venezuela.

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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