Head of Security

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we'd be pretty surprised
if talabat didn't pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order
in Kuwait in ‎2004, we've grown quite a lot over the past ‎17 years.
Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other
products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region
with more than ‎3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over
‎27,000 brands and almost ‎50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept,
talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan,
Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in ‎30 minutes or less!
Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our
customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which
we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and
convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through
donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus
on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in ‎2020, we have
facilitated the donation of well over ‎1 million meals to those in need, as
well as donated over $‎1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and
customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food
delivery and q-commerce.
Role Summary
Professional craft and conceptualization are that of a high-quality level and
takes ownership and initiative in work and daily tasks, aiding in the overall
high standards of the legal & local aspects. Supporting and leading projects'
rollout that focus on identify key enterprise and process level risks. In
addition, to governances' projects that asses the existing control environment
and support the business to continue enhance it. Not only that, but also
supporting and leading an interesting ad-hoc assignment with different
functions and expectation.
Role Duties and Responsibilities
* Provide advice and support local business functions in identify, assess, manage, mitigate, and monitor risks.
* Initiate and coordinate procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls and ensure remediation of identified weaknesses at local level develop and implement security protocols, this include Tmart activities as well.
* Lead with guidance of the legal country laws & internal policies the investigation of all cases & implementations of new projects.
* Support and continue monitor the Tmart activities from control and risk prospective.
* Promote risk culture and raise awareness within the local entity.
* Provide thought partnership, risk analytics (e.g. return on Risk Mitigation investments), and recommendations around remediation, Risk Mitigation, or process improvement to the local management and functional leaders.
* Support to implement global framework / methodology for governance over controls to maintain, continuously update and improve controls.
* Design and supports implementation of local internal controls together with the control owners in accordance with global ICS policies and guidelines. considering the minimum control requirements provided by the global Internal Controls.
Roll out of local policies in the local entity (together with local
management) Ensure that employee´s behaviours and compliance efforts are
consistent with regional and local ethical and legal standards through a
different awareness programs and sessions
Qualifications & Skills Required
* ‎5 years of senior level experience of security management or any security-related field
* Excellent analytical, interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
* Genuine desire to provide security services with a high degree of personal responsibility.
* Critical thinking and ability to make quick decisions, respond to an emergency situation and work proactively to prevent security breaches from happening in the first place.
* Should have a basic understanding of technology and how it can be used to improve security.