Vendor Security & Standards Manager

Accountabilities

• Own and continuously improve the global vendor security standards framework, ensuring requirements remain comprehensive, current, enforceable, and aligned with relevant policies and industry best practices.
• Establish and enforce clear security compliance expectations for carriers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, guarding companies, last-mile providers, and other external supply chain partners.
• Ensure vendors formally accept applicable security requirements before beginning operational activities and work with legal and procurement teams to embed these obligations into contracts and service agreements.
• Conduct scheduled and unannounced physical inspections at vendor facilities, transit locations, and operational sites across international regions.
• Verify controls such as access management, personnel screening, CCTV, handling procedures, tamper-evident measures, and chain-of-custody processes against established standards, including TAPA FSR and TAPA TSR where applicable.
• Produce detailed inspection reports, document compliance gaps, identify systemic risks, and provide practical recommendations for remediation.
• Issue corrective action requirements to non-compliant vendors, establish binding remediation timelines, and track outstanding actions through to verified resolution.
• Conduct follow-up inspections to confirm that corrective measures have been implemented effectively and sustainably.
• Maintain an accurate global vendor compliance register covering inspection history, corrective actions, risk exposure, and current compliance status.
• Escalate persistent or serious non-compliance and recommend appropriate measures, including sanctions, suspension, or vendor replacement when necessary.
• Act as the primary security compliance contact for external vendors, communicating expectations clearly and assertively to security and operational leadership.
• Conduct structured vendor security reviews, support new-vendor assessments, and define security requirements that must be met before operational activation.
• Prepare global compliance reports for leadership, identify recurring patterns across vendors or regions, and recommend improvements to standards, policies, procedures, and enforcement mechanisms.
• Work closely with regional security teams across the USA, EU, Taiwan, APAC, Israel, and future operating regions to maintain consistent security expectations and enforcement.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in supply chain security compliance, vendor auditing, physical security, or security standards enforcement.
• Proven experience conducting physical security inspections and compliance assessments across complex, multi-vendor or international environments.
• Strong experience managing corrective action processes, including documenting deficiencies, setting remediation requirements, escalating issues, and verifying resolution.
• Deep knowledge of supply chain security standards, particularly TAPA FSR and/or TAPA TSR.
• Strong understanding of physical security controls within logistics environments, including access control, CCTV, personnel screening, tamper-evident practices, and chain of custody.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate directly and assertively with vendors and hold stakeholders accountable at different organizational levels.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple compliance activities across geographies and time zones.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and make enforcement decisions with minimal supervision.
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Willingness and ability to undertake significant international travel for on-site vendor inspections and compliance activities.
• Availability to respond to urgent compliance incidents or escalations outside standard working hours when required.
• Experience in law enforcement, military security, corporate security auditing, or high-value and critical infrastructure supply chains is an advantage.
• Familiarity with environments involving data centers, AI hardware, semiconductors, electronics, or other high-value technology assets is a plus.
• Experience with global security functions and multi-regional vendor networks is desirable.
• Knowledge of security technologies such as GPS tracking, geofencing, access control systems, or tamper-evident sealing is beneficial.
• Additional language skills relevant to international operating regions, such as Dutch, Hebrew, or Mandarin, are advantageous.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Career growth and ongoing learning opportunities.
• Flexibility and significant ownership in a global security function.
• Collaborative and innovative working environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to security operations supporting impactful AI and technology infrastructure.
• International exposure through collaboration across multiple regions and extensive global vendor networks.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful, high-impact supply chain security initiatives.
• A fast-moving environment that values bold thinking, continuous growth, trust, and real ownership.
• International environment with talented teams across multiple locations.