The role

To develop the entity’s international physical security system, including oversight, standards, and operations. It ensures the organisation protects its people, information, and assets in a multi-jurisdiction office network and during major events. This role offers senior assurance, risk leadership, and crisis advisory. It supports consistent, proportionate security controls. These controls meet legal requirements and align with the Arms' risk appetite and operational resilience obligations.

All Arm offices globally (owned/leased), labs, partner-facing locations, and major organization events. Coordinate worldwide security operations by ensuring consistent guarding and supervision. Handle blocking issues, lead entry management and visitor oversight. Identify and follow crucial indicators for leading incident resolution, system functionality, and vendor delivery.

Internal Relationships

Workplace leadership (Facilities, H&S), including property portfolio. Global, Regional, and local site management across the organisation

External Relations

Building landlords and leading agents (including shared-space governance)

What you will do

Lead the transformation and maturation of security operations from legacy practices to a scalable, intelligence-led capability aligned to Enterprise Security and business risk. Develop and implement a multi-year Physical Security roadmap, crafting frameworks, standards, and operating models that support consistent, risk-based security across global sites.

Executive Protection

Develop and supervise a risk-based Executive Protection programme, ensuring appropriate protection measures for executive leadership across offices, travel, and events. Strategy, Governance & Risk Leadership

Support Physical Security Director to define and maintain the global physical security strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligned to Arm’s priorities, growth, and risk appetite.

Global Standards, Policy & Control Framework

Own and maintain the organisation’s physical security policy and technical/operational standards.

Converged Security & Data/Privacy Compliance

Partner with Cyber Security (Part of Enterprise Security) and Enterprise IT to ensure physical security controls integrate with cybersecurity and information protection (e.g., secure areas, badge-to-network logic where applicable).

Incident & Crisis Leadership

Serve as the organisation’s senior physical security advisor during major incidents, crises and heightened threat periods.

Travel / Event Security Oversight

Set the organisation’s security requirements for major events, including risk-tiering, minimum controls, and critical issue routes.

Supplier & Commercial Oversight

Define the global supplier strategy for physical security (guarding, systems, monitoring, risk intelligence).

Capability, Training & Culture

Set the capability framework and training standards for security participants (Facilities, Office Management, Event Owners, Reception).

Non-exhaustive list of key outcomes and measures of success

Clear, adopted and embedded global security standards with transparent exceptions management.

Qualifications

Significant experience leading multi-site / multi-jurisdiction physical security programmes in a complex professional services, corporate, technology or similarly regulated environment.

• Demonstrable track record in:
• physical security strategy, governance and standards
• risk assessment methodologies and assurance/audit programmes
• major incident and crisis support (senior advisory role)
• real estate project security design and delivery oversight
• vendor governance and commercial oversight
• Experience in technology or IP-sensitive environments
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST, and TISAX
• Comfortably influencing senior partners in a matrix environment and driving outcomes without direct line control.
• Solid understanding of physical security controls and systems (access control, CCTV, secure area design, visitor management).
• Solid grasp of risk-based security planning and security-by-design principles.
• Solid understanding of privacy and proportionality considerations for monitoring technologies.
• Ability to integrate physical security with operational resilience, business continuity and information security.
• Membership of a recognised security body (e.g., ASIS, Security Institute) or equivalent desirable.
• Relevant professional training/certification in risk, security management, crisis management, or resilience (desirable, not required).

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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