Security Manager

About This Role

This Security Manager role is responsible for ensuring the integrated protection of people, assets, and data through a participatory, multidisciplinary, and value-oriented corporate security model. The role transforms the Security function from a reactive operational oversight to a strategic lever for prevention, resilience, and business continuity, promoting a shared and responsible security culture at all organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee the corporate security model, translating business objectives into operational priorities, homogeneous standards, and coherent implementation plans across the entire network.
• Evolve the function from a reactive to a preventive and structured logic, strengthening anticipation, control, and organizational response capabilities.
• Lead initiatives to reduce inventory losses, internal and external fraud, and organized retail crime, with particular attention to high-vulnerability contexts.
• Develop root cause analyses, structural countermeasures, and risk indicator monitoring systems, measuring the return on investment of control activities.
• Coordinate the handling and management of reports from the network and corporate functions, supervising internal investigations into fraud, anomalies, and non-compliant behaviors.
• Transform audit and verification findings into corrective, preventive, and improvement actions for governance processes.
• Oversee the compliance, reliability, and evolution of physical security systems — video surveillance, intrusion detection, access control — according to a structured lifecycle management model.
• Promote the adoption of advanced technological solutions, including analytics and artificial intelligence tools for predictive and continuous monitoring purposes.
• Coordinate organizational preparedness for critical events and crisis situations, ensuring clear escalation protocols, rapid activation, and operational continuity.
• Ensure the updating and effective application of Business Continuity plans, incident management procedures, and systematic post-event analysis.
• Disseminate a shared security culture, in which every employee actively contributes to risk prevention; coordinate training programs and networks of contacts in retail stores.
• Collaborate with corporate functions — Operations, HR, IT, Legal, Compliance, Technical Directorate — and with external institutions to integrate security into business processes and ensure full regulatory compliance.
• Ensure a constant and periodic presence at the various retail stores nationwide to monitor the effectiveness of security measures, support local teams, and conduct direct operational checks; available for frequent travel.

Requirements

• Strategic vision and execution capability on multi-site networks; project management, root cause analysis, and structured decision-making in complex contexts.
• Transversal leadership and ability to influence different stakeholders; strong orientation towards results, impact measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Authority, balance, and confidentiality in managing sensitive issues; effective communication with heterogeneous interlocutors — operational network, top management, institutions, and law enforcement agencies.
• Integrity, sense of responsibility, and aptitude for working in multidisciplinary teams and managing critical situations.
• At least 5 years in managerial Security roles in complex retail or industrial contexts, with direct experience in coordinating video surveillance systems, operational centers, and large-scale emergency management.
• Consolidated experience in the governance of inventory differences and loss prevention processes, through the coordination of operational verifications, data analysis, identification of anomalies, and implementation of improvement plans and performance monitoring.
• Degree in legal, economic, engineering, or technical-scientific fields. Knowledge of current regulations regarding physical security, privacy, and data processing. Familiarity with data analytics tools and crisis management platforms.

Benefits

• International growth paths - Adeo Group internal mobility
• Continuous training
• Digital learning platform
• Company car for mixed use
• Incentive system and widespread share ownership
• Employee discounts
• Health assistance (FondoEst)

Important Details

• Available for frequent travel

About the Company

Leroy Merlin, an international brand of the Adeo group, is a leader in the home improvement, DIY, and retail sectors. It operates in major Italian cities with a clear mission: to help people realize their home and life projects by offering innovative and highly positive impact solutions.