Director of Regional Security, LATAM

Job Description Are you ready to lead security operations protecting our people, assets, and business continuity across the LATAM? Bring your leadership, security expertise, and strategic mindset to the LEGO Group and help shape the future of regional security operations across LATAM. In this critical leadership role, you will oversee security strategy, risk management, crisis preparedness, and operational excellence while leading a team of security professionals dedicated to protecting our people and business.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and develop regional security team, ensuring strong engagement, capability building, and continuous professional development.
• Manage day-to-day security operations across the LATAM region, ensuring compliance with global standards, budgets, KPIs, and audit requirements.
• Oversee outsourced security providers and vendor partnerships, ensuring performance, quality, and cost effectiveness.
• Drive regional risk assessment and business impact analysis programs to protect LEGO assets, facilities, intellectual property, and employees.
• Ensure security systems and infrastructure operate in accordance with global security standards and certification requirements.
• Lead the delivery of security projects, installations, and expansion while coordinating internal and external stakeholders.
• Direct investigations related to theft, fraud, and loss prevention, partnering with Legal, People Operations & Development, site leadership, and external authorities.
• Lead regional crisis management preparedness, emergency response planning, and business continuity initiatives.
• Activate and coordinate crisis response activities during incidents and emergencies, ensuring effective communication and stakeholder alignment.
• Provide security expertise across executive protection, event security, travel security, fraud investigations, and specialized security assessments.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding

The Global Security organization safeguards LEGO Group people, assets, operations, and intellectual property worldwide. Our mission is to ensure business continuity through risk management, incident prevention, crisis preparedness, and effective response capabilities.

As Director of Regional Security, LATAM you will lead a team of security professionals supporting operations across the LATAM region, including major facilities in Monterrey, Mexico, as well as offices in Mexico City and Brazil.

You will also be a key member of the Global Security Leadership Team, contributing to the long-term security strategy and collaborating with colleagues across regions and the Security Excellence Center.

Do You Have What It Takes?

• People leadership experience.
• Proven experience within a corporate security environment, preferably supporting manufacturing or operational sites.
• Experience working within international and multicultural organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated expertise conducting risk assessments and designing security solutions.
• Experience with access control and CCTV systems, ideally Genetec.
• Experience leading crisis management and emergency response programs.
• Advanced English language proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing outsourced security contracts and service providers.
• Project management experience.
• Experience supporting digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to construction or site expansion projects.
• Knowledge of supply chain security regulations and customs security programs such as CTPAT.

Note: This position is based in our manufacturing factory located in Cienega de Flores, N.L. This is not a remote position.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date.

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – You'll find this at the top of this advert and when you join the team, we'll confirm this with you.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are.

Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun.