Security and Loss Prevention Specialist

Job ID: Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Our operations network, known for its speed, accuracy, and exceptional service, delivers millions of packages and smiles to Amazon customers every day. To keep our operations network secure and ensure operational continuity, we are looking for a hands on and detail oriented professional to join our team as a Security and Loss Prevention (SLP) Specialist. In this key role, you will deliver security as a service to our operational sites across the end to end supply chain, protecting our people and preventing loss.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Support resilience of our business operations by contributing to emergency and crisis planning for sites within your area of responsibility.
• Contribute to the identification of vulnerabilities (e.g., loss, associate experience, process improvement) and define appropriate mitigating actions while ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards.
• Serve as point of contact for and coordinate measures to manage risk with local management and external stakeholders (e.g., law enforcement agencies and industry associations) on all security related matters.
• Ensure compliance of your assigned sites with Amazon global security standards.

A Day in the Life

As a Loss Prevention Specialist, you will join a team of Security and Loss Prevention professionals providing security as a service to business customers across multiple business units within a dedicated geographical area. You will perform regular physical security audits, investigate policy violations, security related incidents, and loss events. During your investigations you will collect information by monitoring systems and tools, analysing data reports, and conducting interviews. Your findings help identify vulnerabilities in our processes, for which you will contribute to the development of mitigating measures. You will play a key role in maintaining the physical integrity of our sites by auditing and monitoring the health status of our systems and, in collaboration with subject matter experts and external suppliers, maintaining their functionality.

You will interact daily with external security service providers to ensure delivery of high quality security services and a smooth customer experience. You will also act as point of contact for multiple internal and external departments (e.g., legal, HR, security service providers, local law enforcement) and serve as a subject matter expert in Security and Loss Prevention related matters. Finally, you will deliver loss prevention related education and awareness programmes to other teams and liaise with various stakeholders on policy and procedure across all management levels.

About the Team

Sitting within the Global Security Operations organisation, Security and Loss Prevention supports the accomplishment of Amazon's business targets and strengthens our brand by effectively protecting against relevant threats and managing security and loss prevention risks that could:

• Put our associates and customers under jeopardy.
• Disrupt the continuity of our business operations.
• Inflict damage to our assets.
• Have an adverse impact on our brand reputation.

Working in partnership with our stakeholders, we secure the Amazon supply chain end to end and promote security during business conversations. We do this by preventing security and loss prevention related risks and vulnerabilities as early as possible, intervening in unfolding incidents to minimise any negative impact, and thoroughly investigating security related incidents to identify and remove root causes, preventing re occurrence.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with MS Office Professional Suite, including Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyse data.
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English.
• Experience in security services, asset protection, loss prevention, risk management, inventory management, investigations, supply chain, auditing, compliance, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following industries: shipping/logistics distribution centres, manufacturing environments, hospitality, healthcare, retail, and customer facing / customer service environments.
• Experience in data analysis and leveraging analytics to make decisions.
• Experience in a relevant industry or academia.
• Experience with physical security best practices, including the application of physical security systems, investigation techniques, and management of contract security guards.
• Driver's licence.

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