HSM looking to fill National Security Manager vacancy

- Senior leadership role in a well-established local business with national reach

- Use your top class account management skills in an interesting and rewarding industry

- Join a diverse and fun company with a team first approach

HSM provides guard services and A1 graded monitoring services to a wide range of clients across New Zealand including corporate offices, warehouses, government offices, commercial and residential premises.

HSM is looking for a superstar National Security Manager to lead two key divisions within its security business - guarding and monitoring. These are well established divisions, both with sizable teams and state of the art equipment.

The National Security Manager will sit within our Senior Management team and be responsible for driving strategic growth and ensuring optimum performance of the Monitoring and Guarding divisions including spearheading our national growth strategy. We are a dynamic team, and are looking for an energetic, motivated, forward thinking and driven National Security Manager who will be actively involved in our business development.

Your Responsibilities:

The National Security Manager will be responsible for leading a large team of guarding and monitoring professionals and developing and maintaining excellent relationships with a wide range of customers, including large national accounts. You will also -

• Develop and execute growth plans and strategies for both divisions

• Drive sales within the business and actively pursue new business opportunities

• Undertake key people matters from selection and onboarding through to development, performance feedback and motivation of the team

• Drive the training and development within the team

• Ensure SOPs remain current and compliant

• Drive a culture of high performance

• Develop and maintain frequent security evaluations of client needs and ensure appropriate recommendations are made to the customer

• Monitor incident reports and take appropriate action

• Undertake analysis and interpretation of divisional financial reporting including month end and year end

About you:

You may already have strong experience in the security industry or alternatively you have a strong leadership background from within Hospitality or Retail and you are looking for a new challenge. To succeed in this role, you must have experience with account management, employee management and understand what is required to succeed in a 24/7 business. In addition, you will have:

• Significant experience working in account management and sales

• Previous Security Management experience preferred

• Proven track record in developing high performing teams

• Excellent communication skills, conveying timely and clear information to managers, management team members and clients

• A strong customer focus, being both responsive and proactive, with the ability to anticipate customer needs

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills and a proven ability to make sound judgement calls

• Superior organisational and time management skills

This is a 24-hour operation so flexibility is important and at times you will be required to be available to your team outside normal work hours. There will also be occasional domestic travel for business development and customer service requirements.

You must also be able to obtain a CoA (Certificate of Approval) and have a clean criminal record.

Please submit your application/CV to Matt Stevenson at: matt.stevenson@hsmgroup.co.nz.

Applications close 5pm Wednesday 14th June 2023. We will be interviewing suitable applicants as we receive applications so please apply today.