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Nature and Scope of Leadership Role:

As the Senior Director, Corporate Security, you will lead the development and execution of a global corporate security program that protects Regal Rexnord's people, facilities, assets, and reputation while enabling organizational resilience, business continuity, and enterprise risk management across a global industrial manufacturing footprint. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS), EHS & Corporate Security, with dotted-line accountability to the Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, and leading a team of three direct reports, this role serves as the company's corporate security function leader. The position has primary responsibility for security strategy and operations across North America, including Regal Rexnord's 16 manufacturing sites in Mexico, while supporting the company's broader global operations. Key areas of responsibility include security strategy and governance, threat intelligence, executive protection and duty of care, travel and event security, geopolitical risk preparedness, site security assessments, asset protection, crisis management, and incident response, in close partnership with Legal, Human Resources, EHS, IT Security, Real Estate, Enterprise Risk Management, and business leadership across the enterprise. This position is based at Regal Rexnord's corporate offices in Rosemont, Illinois, and operates under a hybrid work schedule.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

Security Strategy & Governance

• Establish, lead, and continuously improve a global corporate security program, including strategy, policies, standards, objectives, governance, and preparedness plans, with emphasis across North America, including Regal Rexnord's 16 manufacturing sites in Mexico, while supporting the company's broader global operations.

• Partner with Legal, Human Resources, EHS, IT Security, Real Estate, Enterprise Risk Management, and senior leaders to align security strategy with business needs and risk priorities.

• Monitor operational, policy, and external changes that may affect security risk exposure, and develop practical solutions as business conditions evolve.

• Drive innovation across security management, threat intelligence, response capabilities, and operational efficiency.

Threat Intelligence, Risk & Resilience

• Identify, evaluate, and manage enterprise-wide corporate security risk exposures, including appropriate risk retention and mitigation approaches with site leaders and senior management.

• Lead threat intelligence, horizon scanning, and global risk monitoring; provide periodic updates to senior leadership on geopolitical risk, business continuity, and organizational resilience.

• Develop preventative programs to protect against workplace violence, criminal financial loss, counterfeiting, sabotage, insider and external threats, illegal acts, and property or environmental crimes.

Executive Protection & Duty of Care

• Lead and expand the executive protection program, including physical security, protective intelligence, threat management, secure travel, advance work, transportation, and support for senior executives and Board members.

• Direct security planning and execution for high-profile events, including investor events, shareholder meetings, leadership summits, and site visits.

• Establish and lead a Duty of Care and travel risk management program for associates, with focus on business travelers, expatriates, and employees in high-risk or remote locations.

• Implement travel risk protocols, including pre-travel briefings, traveler tracking, destination intelligence, journey management, and emergency assistance.

• Manage travel security, medical assistance, and emergency evacuation providers to ensure rapid support for associates affected by security, medical, or natural-disaster events.

• Partner with Human Resources, EHS, Legal, Real Estate and Enterprise Risk Management to ensure Duty of Care obligations are met and applied consistently across regions.

Crisis Management & Incident Response

• Serve as a key member of the enterprise crisis management response team, helping develop and maintain a unified crisis response and preparedness framework.

• Provide rapid response to security incidents to reduce exposure and liability related to threats against the company's people, assets, interests, and reputation.

• Lead cross-functional and cross-Segment dialogue on enterprise security risk and mitigation plans.

Site Security & Operations

• Conduct facility and site security assessments, asset protection reviews, and ensure established security procedures are implemented at operational sites globally.

• Establish protocols for on-site security companies, assess performance, and manage corporate security staff and service providers in partnership with local operations and functional teams.

• Maintain knowledge of and ensure compliance with CTPAT, supply chain, transportation, and cargo security requirements.

Partnership with Risk Management & Business Enablement

• Partner with the Senior Director, Global Risk and Property Management to align corporate security with enterprise risk, insurance, claims, and property protection programs, ensuring physical security exposures are identified, mitigated, transferred, or insured as appropriate.

• Coordinate site security assessments with property protection engineering and loss prevention reviews to advance resolution of outstanding recommendations.

• Contribute security risk input to the annual enterprise risk management process, supporting material risk aggregation, response planning, and risk rating.

• Collaborate with Legal, Risk Management, EHS, Real Estate, and Human Resources on business continuity planning and workplace safety initiatives to reduce incident frequency and severity.

• Serve as a primary security contact for site leaders, HR/EHS leaders, procurement, external transportation and security providers, and business leaders needing support on security issues, liabilities, or questions.

Training & External Relationships

• Oversee training, awareness, and preparedness exercises to ensure security strategy, standards, and expectations are cascaded across the enterprise, including site leaders and security service providers.

• Manage external security partners and maintain working relationships with key government, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies.

Leadership & Talent Management

• Lead, coach, and develop the corporate security team (3 direct reports) to build capability, support career growth, and strengthen business partnerships.

• Create a cohesive, accountable team culture that encourages knowledge sharing, ownership, service excellence, and valued partnership across the enterprise.

• Establish performance standards and monitor team and vendor performance through informal and formal reviews.

Required Education / Experience / Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline required; relevant security certification preferred.

• 15+ years of corporate or global security experience, including 5+ years in a management or leadership role; global industrial manufacturing experience highly preferred.

• Background in corporate security, law enforcement, military, or U.S. federal government service, including prior experience with the U.S. Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of State/Diplomatic Security Service, or a comparable federal law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic security, or protective-service agency; experience operating in non-U.S. environments.

• Demonstrated expertise in physical security, executive protection, duty of care, travel risk management, crisis response, business continuity, and enterprise risk management requirements.

• Experience leading threat assessments, investigations, event and transportation security, external security providers, and crisis response efforts across global operations.

• Working knowledge of surveillance technology, risk assessment tools, security intelligence platforms, and protocols to mitigate global security threats.

• Citizen of the United States.

• Travel: Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Preferred Experience

• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking, budgeting, and business planning skills, with the ability to translate security and threat trends into business strategy.

• Proven ability to lead independently, mobilize cross-functional stakeholders, build strong relationships and teams, and drive change across a large, diverse organization.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, leadership, negotiation, and influencing skills, with ability to interact effectively at all levels of management.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented, collaborative culture and satisfy enhanced security-related background checks or clearances, if required.

• Language: English required; bilingual Spanish preferred.

Location: Rosemont, IL.

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company's electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company's automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company's end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com.If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail Recruiting@RegalRexnord.com.

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