Hybrid Corporate Security Specialist – Emergency and Crisis Management

at Messe Berlin

• Job title: Corporate Security Specialist – Emergency and Crisis Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Corporate Security Referent focusing on crisis and emergency management at Messe Berlin. Engaging with safety governance and operational emergency responses while fostering a team-oriented culture.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and further develop governance documents
• Analyze security-relevant incidents, including documentation, initiation of criminal complaints (where applicable), and derivation of security measures
• Support the review and account coding of incoming invoices and assist with cost center monitoring
• Translate findings from Business Impact Analyses and BCM-related risk assessments into crisis management measures in close cooperation with the central emergency manager (e.g., development of crisis plans)
• Contribute to the preparation and delivery of training and continuing education in emergency and crisis management
• Implement a structured approach to travel security in cooperation with the travel security service provider (risk assessments, travel advisories, recommended measures)
• Participate in operational emergency response as an emergency manager and as a member of the crisis team according to internal role assignments
• Update and consistently apply the physical security framework (security concept)
• Develop the security situation picture for Messe Berlin and support enforcement of house rules and property rights as part of corporate security

Requirements

• Degree in security management, crisis management, emergency management, or a comparable qualification — or equivalent knowledge acquired through relevant professional experience in security, emergency, and crisis management
• Strong communication skills to explain complex matters clearly and appropriately to different audiences
• Experience in creating and updating emergency and crisis documentation
• Experience conducting trainings, exercises, or workshops in a security context
• Fluent German language skills

Benefits

• Change agility
• Diversity and inclusion
• Customer/value orientation
• Self-initiative and proactive ownership
• Willingness and ability to learn
• Sustainability mindset
• Reflective capacity
• Goal and results orientation
• Strong execution skills
• Communication skills
• Persuasiveness and assertiveness