Security Senior – IKEA

Job description / Role

Security Senior – IKEA – Cairo Festival City – Egypt

One of the companies bearing Al-Futtaim name is IKEA.

IKEA is the world's largest home furnishings store, founded in Sweden over 60 years ago. Our operations around the world are constantly increasing with new stores and markets added to the success story.

At IKEA not only our furniture is down to earth, straightforward and inspiring, but so is our work ethics. Despite being the leading home furnishing retail franchisee across the world, we at IKEA still give you the room to grow! At IKEA creating a better everyday life for the many isn't only our vision, it's our way of life!

* Supervision for planned and certified measures ensuring IKEA customer, co-worker, property and facilities security within store and its vicinity.
* Validating Al-Futtaim and IKEA security standards and demands.
* Prepares for ensuring legal measures and demands of local authorities and insurance companies.
* Assists achieving and implementing proper, stable systematic security procedures and measures.
* Ensure all security-related equipment and systems including CCTV, are functioning, properly operated and maintained.
* Conducts regular planned reviews for continuous performance improvement.
* Support maintaining efficient relationship with local authorities: Police, Fire, Insurance company
* Supervision to ensure security of assets and operations against all expected threats.
* Assists managing security guards routine and procedures implementation for guarding and controlling customers, co-workers, equipment premises including Car park, in-store warehouse, and Service Office.
* Assists performing periodic and random security inspections for store escalating feedback to Security Manager.
* Assists managing safety plans and evacuation drills.
* Prepares daily and monthly KPIs reports on various measurable factors against benchmarked figures (i.e. manpower productivity, etc).
* Implementing certified actions to achieve agreed goals.
* Support cost controlling through working in a lean, simple, cost-conscious way using good examples and solutions, encouraging team and colleagues to discover more effective ways of working.
* Execute co-workers Security Awareness assessments and manages observation results.
* Supervises Security Team ensuring highest levels of work efficiency within the budgeted productivities, motivation.
* Prepares Security Department various Schedules.
* Plan annual leaves for department on commercial calendar bases.

Requirements

To be successful in winning this role, you will be able to demonstrate the following

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:
Bachelor's Holder

Minimum Experience:
5 years in a similar role.

Job-Specific Skills:
Strategic Planning and Analytical Skills, Effective Communication, Excel competence.

Behavioural Competencies:
Problem Solving, Confidence, Vigilance and Strategic Thinking.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.