Physical Security Risk Management Specialist

Job ID: 4946

Would you like to play a key role in developing Nordea’s Physical Security Programme in Norway and across the Nordics, Poland, and Estonia? We are now looking for a Security Risk Management Specialist with a solid physical security background. You will be based in Oslo and form an active part of Nordea Group’s Physical & People Security unit spanning the Nordics, Poland, and Estonia.

About this opportunity

As the Security Risk Management Specialist, you will play a key role in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security risks in relation to premises, processes, and people. You will cooperate with a wide range of colleagues to develop and implement security risk management strategies and frameworks and to ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and standards.

This is a role for someone who enjoys creating structure. You will help design and embed scalable risk assessment processes across the Nordics.

You will work closely with the Country Security Manager for Norway to support and continuously improve governance and ways of working across the physical security domain in Norway and the Nordics as well as Poland and Estonia. The domain spans areas such as incident management, risk management, premises protection, event security, employee protection, vendor governance, travel security, helping to ensure that risks and mitigations are managed consistently across this landscape. You will be reporting to Head of Physical & People Security and be part of a team of highly skilled colleagues across the Nordics, Poland, and Estonia and work closely with a range of stakeholders internally as well as externally.

What you will do:

• Conduct comprehensive security risk assessments related to premises, processes, and people
• Develop and maintain risk assessment frameworks and procedures
• Help design and embed scalable risk assessment processes across the Nordics
• Identify vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation measures
• Monitor emerging threats, trends, and incidents and assess their potential impact on Nordea
• Present, communicate and report findings through clear risk narratives, dashboards, and decision material for different audiences
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure mitigations are agreed, implemented, and followed up upon
• Work closely with the Country Security Manager to drive continuous improvement across the physical security domain, ensuring consistent risk and mitigation follow-up

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Dedication. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us. We are looking for a person passionate about combining professional physical security skills and business understanding – someone committed to taking responsibility and delivering results. In this role, your ability to build trust, communicate clearly, and influence stakeholders is just as important as your subject-matter expertise, as you will work across functions, countries, and levels of seniority.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have a strong understanding of and experience with risk assessment methodologies and frameworks
• Take a holistic view and connect physical security risks and mitigations to the wider security landscape and business impact
• Have excellent analytical and communication skills 
• Hold integrity and trust as your core values and have excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Are proactive, independent, pragmatic, and solution oriented
• Can explain complex risks in a simple, actionable way and adapt your communication to different audiences
• Are comfortable challenging constructively, handling different views, and driving alignment in a pragmatic way
• Can facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to move from assessment to agreed mitigations and ownership

Your experience and background:

• Extensive experience with Physical Security and Security Risk Management
• Experience from working with security in complex organisations  
• Preferably experience from the banking industry or other regulated industry
• Experience working with governance, risk and compliance as well as issue management
• Preferably previous Military, Law Enforcement and/or related government security experience
• Relevant academic background from the security risk management domain or other similar area 
• Full professional proficiency in Norwegian and English (spoken and written) 

What we offer

• A culture that supports performance and growth, with opportunities to learn from colleagues with diverse backgrounds.
• Hybrid working model – we value bringing people together while also supporting flexibility.
• A competitive benefits package in line with Nordea’s offering.

At Nordea, you will join a team where you can develop your professional skills, take ownership, and make an impact.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 15/07/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Stine Berner at stine.berner@nordea.com.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.