VP, Global Asset Protection, Security & Safety

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Primary Purpose: The Global Vice President Asset Protection, Security & Safety is the senior global leader responsible for setting enterprise strategy and providing executive oversight for Asset Protection, Corporate Security, Global Security Operations, Health & Safety, Crisis and Incident Management, Executive Protection, Event Security, and Business Continuity across Tapestry and its brands. Reporting to the General Counsel and Secretary, this role protects Tapestry’s people, assets, operations, and brand reputation by establishing a globally integrated, intelligence-led risk framework; maintaining enterprise preparedness; and leading coordinated response and recovery from significant events.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Asset Protection, Security and Safety to...

• •Lead, develop, and continuously evolve a high-performing global organization spanning Asset Protection, Corporate Security, Global Security Operations, Safety, and related enterprise risk disciplines, with clear governance, accountability, succession planning, and operating standards.
• •Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the General Counsel, executive leadership, and other senior stakeholders on global security, safety, crisis, continuity, and emerging-risk matters.
• •Establish the enterprise security and safety strategy, governance model, operating standards, investment priorities, and performance measures required to protect Tapestry’s people, assets, operations, and reputation across brands and geographies.
• •Oversee budgets, capital investments, security technology, analytics, third-party providers, and resource allocation across the global function, ensuring resources are aligned to enterprise risk and business priorities.
• •Maintain strategic relationships with law enforcement, intelligence, emergency-management, landlord/property-management, and private-sector security partners globally to strengthen preparedness, information sharing, and response capability.

Asset Protection

• •Set and govern the global Asset Protection strategy across stores, corporate locations, fulfillment/distribution operations, and other company facilities, integrating loss prevention, investigations, physical security, operational risk, and employee safety.
• •Establish risk-based auditing, inspection, investigative, and exception-reporting frameworks to identify vulnerabilities, emerging loss trends, control failures, and opportunities for corrective action.
• •Provide executive oversight for complex and sensitive investigations involving internal and external theft, fraud, misconduct, organized retail crime, threats, policy violations, and other matters affecting Tapestry’s people, assets, operations, or reputation.
• •Direct the global physical-security strategy, including governance and standards for video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, alarms, visitor management, and other protective technologies and controls.
• •Partner with Legal, Human Resources, Finance, Internal Audit, Technology, Store Operations, Supply Chain, and brand leadership to strengthen controls, address root causes, and embed risk mitigation into business operations.

Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), Intelligence & Emergency Communications

• •Provide executive leadership and strategic direction for Tapestry’s Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), ensuring it operates as the enterprise hub for global threat awareness, protective intelligence, incident intake, escalation, emergency communications, and coordinated security response.
• •Continuously evolve the GSOC operating model, staffing, technology, workflows, intelligence capabilities, service levels, and global coverage to meet the changing risk profile and needs of the business.
• •Establish enterprise protocols for 24/7 threat monitoring, incident triage, verification, escalation, notification, executive briefing, and cross-functional coordination for events that may affect employees, executives, facilities, stores, fulfillment centers, travel, events, or business operations.
• •Direct the collection, assessment, and dissemination of actionable intelligence related to geopolitical developments, civil unrest, crime, severe weather, terrorism, workplace threats, travel risk, online threats, and other emerging issues with potential impact to Tapestry.
• •Own the enterprise emergency-communications framework, including mass-notification governance, audience segmentation, message approval, escalation criteria, testing, and protocols for rapidly communicating with employees and leaders during critical events.
• •Develop executive-level reporting and exception-based intelligence products that translate global threat information and incident trends into clear business risk, recommended actions, and leadership decisions.

Corporate Security, Executive Protection & Event Security

• •Set the global corporate-security strategy and provide executive oversight for security operations at Tapestry corporate headquarters and other designated corporate locations, including access control, visitor management, security officer operations, surveillance, emergency procedures, and facility protection.
• •Establish and govern risk-based executive-protection protocols for the Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives, including protective intelligence, travel risk, transportation security, advance planning, residential considerations when appropriate, and scalable protection based on threat and exposure.
• •Direct the enterprise event-security program for Board and leadership meetings, fashion shows, product launches, employee gatherings, high-profile brand events, and other significant activities, integrating threat assessment, venue security, access control, emergency planning, and executive protection.
• •Lead enterprise workplace-violence prevention and threat-management strategy, including behavioral threat assessment, case governance, escalation protocols, multidisciplinary response, and coordination with law enforcement when appropriate.
• •Establish a proactive online-threat awareness capability to identify, assess, escalate, and coordinate response to digital or social-media activity that may present a credible physical-security risk to executives, employees, facilities, events, or Tapestry brands.

Crisis Management, Incident Response & Global Business Continuity

• •Serve as the executive leader for global security incident response, establishing an enterprise incident-management framework that enables rapid assessment, command, escalation, cross-functional coordination, executive communication, and recovery during significant events.
• •Own and continuously mature Tapestry’s global Business Continuity Management (BCM) program, establishing enterprise governance, methodology, standards, accountability, and reporting across brands, regions, and critical business functions.
• •Lead the identification of critical business processes and dependencies through business impact analyses and risk assessments, ensuring appropr