Security & Market Safety Lead - Bologna

Be a Part Of a Revolutionary Change · At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible. We're totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide. · With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, ...

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Be a Part Of a Revolutionary Change

At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible.

We're totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity.

So, wherever you join us, you'll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI's shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work.

New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Your 'day To Day'

The Security Lead is responsible for defining, implementing, and overseeing the organization's security strategy to protect people, assets, data, and operations.

This role provides leadership across security domains, ensures compliance with applicable regulations and with the Company Principle and Practices, Management Program, manages risk, and drives continuous improvement of security controls and incident response capabilities.

As a Security Lead you will act as a trusted advisor to leadership, partner closely with cross‑functional teams, and lead by example in building a strong security culture.

The role combines operational leadership, advanced analytical skills, and a strong understanding of the local risk and regulatory environment, with the objective of protecting people, facilities, assets, and business continuity.

This position requires a strong data‑driven mindset, the ability to assess physical security risks, and the capability to translate complex analyses into clear operational decisions and management‑level recommendations.

Your Responsibilities

Define and maintain the organization's security strategy, policies, and standards. Contribute to the production and the maintenance of local security/safety guidelines, procedures and emergency response plans. Supervise their implementation and oversight.
Conduct regular risk assessments and translate risk into actionable mitigation plans. Provide input for the risk mitigation action plan. Execute/supervise the mitigation action plan execution.
Respond to and report security & market/fleet safety incidents as per the program requirements. Support the root cause analysis and security and/or safety-related investigations, and the corrective action plan implementation. Perform/supervise yearly program health checks, ensure gaps/non-conformities are addressed with controls, and follow up implementation.
Deliver/supervise all security, market safety training programs. Produce and keep up-to-date training records as per PMI. Seek and consolidate participants' feedback in order to improve the training programs, and security/safety culture. Provide input for the security/safety briefs, alerts, instructions and refreshers.

Ensure that all Corporate or local security & market safety programs, documents, plans and training are duly communicated, remain current and available to local staff.

Gather, process and consolidate all security/safety data including incident reports, KPIs, audit reports, budget expenses. Review and validate all aggregated data before uploading them into reporting systems.

Ensure timeliness and accuracy of Security & Market Safety-related incident and events reporting, to provide focused and detailed reports; escalate trends and critical issues to appropriate levels of management.

Ensure the effectiveness of physical security systems (CCTV, access control, intrusion detection)

Develop, implement and test emergency response protocols in order to protect people, business, assets and reputation from natural and man-made disasters.

Review and keep up-to-date protocols on a yearly basis.

Manage security & market/fleet safety incident investigation, analysis, reporting and retain incident records in order to identify patterns, causes and provide guidance/ recommendations to prevent incident reoccurrence.

Ability to mobilize as a part of a security/safety response team to incidents / events.
Select, appoint and manage local third party service providers in conjunction with procurement and Security & Market Safety Management.

Ensure third party service provider's performance consistently meet all PMI requirements and standards, by developing a comprehensive KPI measurement and monitoring system, regular performance review, and effective reward/penalty mechanism, while at the same time maintaining effective coordination and service deliveries.

Ensure compliance with applicable Italian regulations (e.g. TULPS, private security regulations, occupational health and safety)
Ensure alignment between security objectives and business goals
Coordinate with internal teams and external partners during security events

Who We're Looking For

Minimum 5+ years of experience in corporate security management,
Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Engineering (Industrial, Safety, Civil, or related fields), Political Science, International Relations or Strategic Studies, related disciplines with a focus on risk or security management
Post‑graduate education or master's degree in: Security Management, Risk Management, Criminology or Intelligence (preferred)
Fluency in English and Italian
Proven experience managing cross‑functional security initiatives.
Proficiency in security technologies, protocols and policies
Familiarity with legal regulations regarding security
Experience managing security in complex environments (industrial, retail, logistics, corporate HQs, etc.).
Leadership and decision‑making under pressure
Strategic thinking with strong execution capability
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Analytical mindset and attention to detail
Strong sense of ownership and accountability


Employment Type:
Permanent

Our Success Depends On The People Who Come To Work Every Single Day With a Sense Of Purpose And An Appetite For Progress.

Join PMI And You Too Can

Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We'll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.

Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone's contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world's best people and feel like you belong.

Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.

Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide.

Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna (PM MTB)

PM MTB is Philip Morris International's Center of excellence, worldwide recognized for prototyping, mass-volume production and employees' training on smoke-free products.

PM MTB employs more than 1000 employees and its production site of Crespellano is one of the most advanced manufacturing venues in Italy for technology innovation, competencies development and talent recognition.

In 2019, Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna has been awarded as Top Employer for the sixth year in a row.

In the same year, was also granted the Equal Salary Certification certificate by the homonymous foundation to certify that men and women are paid equally for equivalent work.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we'll give you lots of responsibility. You'll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working.

You'll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world:
a smoke-free world.

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