Senior Production Security Manager, EU/AF, Studios Protective Services
4 days ago
London
Are you a strategic security leader ready to define and scale production security standards across two continents? Amazon MGM Studios is seeking a Senior Production Security Regional Manager for Europe and Africa who combines deep expertise in physical risk management, risk forecasting, and risk mitigation with the strategic vision to transform how we protect global film and television productions. This role requires someone who operates with minimal governance, sets vision for strategically important initiatives, and works across multiple organizations to own programs and complex solution strategies that meet executive scrutiny. You will apply deep understanding of physical risk management, risk forecasting, and mitigation methodologies to production security-designing scalable frameworks, engaging internal and external stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement of our security posture across Europe and Africa. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in security risk management roles, with expertise that spans multiple complex environments and the ability to translate complex regulatory and industry requirements into actionable production security strategies. You must be able to advise Directors and VPs, serve as a tie-breaker on critical security decisions, and create collaborative solutions with regulators, law enforcement, and industry bodies that elevate our security standards. The Senior Production Security Regional Manager defines and scales professional security services across Amazon MGM Studios productions throughout Europe and Africa. Working strategically across organizations, you will own end-to-end physical risk management programs, develop comprehensive risk forecasting frameworks, and create innovative methodologies for physical asset protection that satisfy demanding operational and stakeholder requirements. Your work is strategic in nature. You handle significantly complex problems, decisions, and escalations-designing, testing, and inspecting scalable solutions that align teams and organizations towards simple, coherent approaches. You apply expertise across multiple physical risk domains and types of complex production environments, creating cross-organizational structures and mechanisms that drive efficiency and consistency. You serve as the subject matter expert on production security for the region, advising senior studio leadership (Directors and VPs) on proactive risk forecasting and mitigation strategies. You reduce complexity by creating collaborative solutions with regional regulators, law enforcement agencies, and industry bodies. Your judgment serves as the tie-breaker on decisions for how to respond to emerging threats, security escalations, and complex risk scenarios affecting production operations., • Own programs and complex solution strategies across organizations that meet executive scrutiny, advising Directors and VPs on physical risk management and mitigation strategies., • Build consensus and secure commitments across Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Security, legal, and regional production teams to drive unified security approaches., • Influence external industry and regulatory leaders through force-multiplication-shaping entertainment security norms, standards, and best practices across Europe and Africa., • Design, test, and inspect scalable risk management frameworks for production environments, handling significantly complex problems and escalations, • Apply deep expertise across multiple physical risk domains (threat assessment, venue and location security, personnel protection, asset security) to create unified production security standards, • Develop and implement comprehensive threat assessment and risk forecasting methodologies tailored to production environments across diverse European and African jurisdictions, • Define business strategy for regional production security, establishing new operational models and risk mitigation standards that account for varying threat landscapes, • Apply deep understanding of context, capabilities, and opportunities to reduce complexity-creating collaborative solutions with regulators, law enforcement, and industry partners, • Serve as tie-breaker on critical security decisions affecting production operations, balancing creative enablement with compliance obligations, • Drive impact across 2-3 production security domains (physical risk management, threat forecasting, asset and personnel protection) and multiple regions, • Synthesize insights across security, business, operational, and stakeholder domains to drive proactive adaptations to the production security program, • Align teams and organizations towards simple, coherent approaches to production security-creating and optimizing cross-organizational structures and mechanisms, • Transform vendor management by defining new performance standards, governance models, and risk mitigation frameworks that reset industry expectations, • Develop comprehensive metrics, reporting systems, and decision-support documentation for production security programs, • Create strategic communication frameworks that enable proactive risk management and informed decision-making at the executive level Every day presents unique strategic challenges when securing Studio productions across Europe and Africa, requiring innovative approaches to adapt risk management frameworks as productions evolve. As a Senior Production Security Regional Manager, you will shape how we anticipate and respond to dynamic changes driven by creative direction, competing business priorities, shifting threat landscapes, and evolving global conditions. This field-based leadership role requires you to build and influence a complex network of relationships spanning Studios and Production executives, regional security partners, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and Amazon intelligence teams. You develop comprehensive risk forecasting and mitigation strategies that protect Studios' people, assets, and brand reputation while satisfying diverse compliance obligations. • Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership, • Extensive progressive experience and expertise in security operations, physical risk management, or security program leadership, with demonstrated expertise in designing and executing security programs in complex, multi-jurisdictional environments., • Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, International Relations, Emergency Management, or equivalent fields, • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing risk management frameworks, risk forecasting methodologies, or threat mitigation programs across multiple countries or regions, • Proven ability to advise senior leaders (Director/VP level) and influence organizational strategy on risk management matters, • Experience engaging with external partners, law enforcement agencies, or industry bodies on physical risk management and mitigation, • Extensive experience leading risk assessment and mitigation programs in dynamic, high-profile environments, Experience with multiple risk domains (e.g., physical security, threat forecasting, personnel protection, content/asset security) applied across diverse production environments, • Proven track record of developing innovative security frameworks that have been adopted across organizations or set industry benchmarks, • Experience managing security programs for high-profile entertainment operations or complex business environments, • Demonstrated success building and managing networks of external partners including regulators, law enforcement, and industry working groups, • History of thought leadership in entertainment security, risk forecasting, physical security strategy At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve. We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Production Security is an elite global network of security and risk strategists aligned with Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios' strategic priorities worldwide. Working at the intersection of creative vision and security excellence, our team develops innovative approaches to anticipate and address complex production risks across diverse international environments. We leverage multi-source intelligence and our trusted global partner ecosystem to create proactive security solutions that support filmmakers' creative ambitions while ensuring the safety of our people, protection of our assets, and preservation of our brand. Through strategic risk assessment, deep industry expertise, and strong partnerships with production teams, law enforcement, and security vendors, we enable creative excellence by providing scalable security frameworks that adapt to the dynamic nature of global production environments. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. 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