Tapestry Vice President, Global Asset Protection, Security & Safety

About Tapestry

Tapestry is a New York–based house of modern luxury, uniting the distinctive worlds of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. As an employer, the group offers the scale and sophistication of a global fashion leader while preserving the creative spirit and heritage of its iconic brands. Tapestry cultivates an inclusive, purpose-driven culture where design, craftsmanship, digital innovation, and commercial excellence intersect. Its teams are encouraged to think boldly, grow continuously, and contribute to a more responsible future for fashion, making Tapestry a compelling environment for talent seeking impact, creativity, and international opportunity.

This executive role leads Tapestry's global asset protection, corporate security, and business continuity functions across its portfolio of brands, including Coach and Kate Spade New York. The successful candidate will establish and govern enterprise-wide security strategy, oversee a sophisticated Global Security Operations Center with 24/7 threat monitoring capabilities, and manage crisis response, investigations, executive protection, and occupational safety initiatives across retail, corporate, and fulfillment operations in multiple geographies. The position reports to the General Counsel and requires demonstrated mastery of complex multinational security programs, business continuity management, and the ability to translate technical risk into clear executive decision-making.

Role & Responsibilities

• 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 trusted strategic advisor to the General Counsel, executive leadership, and 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
• 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
• 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
• Set the global corporate-security strategy and provide executive oversight for security operations at Tapestry corporate headquarters and other designated corporate locations
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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 appropriate continuity, recovery, and resilience strategies are developed, maintained, and aligned to enterprise priorities
• Establish requirements for business continuity plans, crisis playbooks, escalation protocols, recovery strategies, and cross-functional response structures, with clear ownership across business functions and geographies
• Direct enterprise exercises, tabletop simulations, and testing of continuity and crisis-response plans; identify gaps, track remediation, and provide executive leadership with visibility into organizational readiness and residual risk
• Integrate the GSOC, emergency communications, crisis management, and business continuity programs so that threat detection, employee notification, incident command, business response, and recovery operate as a coordinated global capability
• Partner with Technology, Supply Chain, Operations, Human Resources, Legal, Finance, Facilities, and brand leadership to strengthen organizational resilience and support timely recovery from disruptions
• Set the enterprise Health & Safety strategy and governance framework across corporate offices, stores, and fulfillment/distribution centers
• Provide strategic oversight of occupational safety within fulfillment/distribution operations, including risk assessment, incident trends, regulatory compliance, corrective-action governance, and leadership reporting
• Establish and oversee food, beverage, health, and sanitation safety standards for Coach coffee shops and other applicable food-and-beverage operations
• Oversee workplace safety education, emergency preparedness, drills, and awareness programs, and use incident data and leading indicators to identify systemic risks and improve prevention
• Establish a data-driven performance and governance framework across Asset Protection, Security, Safety, GSOC, and Business Continuity using KPIs, KRIs, incident trends, intelligence, and exception-based reporting
• Provide regular executive and Board-level reporting on material security, safety, continuity, and asset-protection risks, significant incidents, emerging threats, program performance, and mitigation priorities
• Maintain enterprise policies, standards, protocols, and operating procedures for the function, ensuring appropriate global consistency while accounting for regional legal, regulatory, cultural, and operating requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law enforcement, criminal justice, security, risk management, business, safety, or a related field
• 15+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience across asset protection, corporate security, safety, crisis management, investigations, and enterprise risk, including significant leadership of global programs and geographically dispersed teams
• Demonstrated experience leading or providing executive oversight of a sophisticated Global Security Operations Center, including threat intelligence, emergency communications, incident management, security technology, and 24/7 operating protocols
• Demonstrated experience designing, governing, and testing enterprise Business Continuity Management and crisis-management programs across multiple functions, locations, and geographies
• Deep knowledge of physical security, executive protection, event security, workplace violence prevention, investigations, occupational safety, emergency management, and relevant security technologies
• Strong understanding of geopolitical risk, protective intelligence, online threat assessment, global travel/security risk, and the legal and regulatory considerations associated with multinational security operations
• Proven ability to operate at executive level, influence senior stakeholders, lead through complex and high-pressure incidents, and translate technical risk information into clear business decisions
• Exceptional organizational leadership, including the ability to build high-performing teams, develop senior talent, establish accountability, and lead effectively across diverse cultures and geographies

Skills

Experience

15+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience across asset protection, corporate security, safety, crisis management, investigations, and enterprise risk management. Must demonstrate significant success leading global programs and geographically dispersed teams. Proven track record of designing, implementing, and governing enterprise-scale Business Continuity Management and crisis-management programs across multiple functions, locations, and geographies. Demonstrated leadership of sophisticated Global Security Operations Centers with advanced threat intelligence, emergency communications, and 24/7 incident management capabilities. Significant experience supporting executive and event protection programs for high-profile leaders and global brands. Established relationships and demonstrated coordination with law enforcement, emergency-management, intelligence, and private-sector security partners during significant domestic and international events.

Education

Bachelor's degree in law enforcement, criminal justice, security, risk management, business, safety, or a related field required. Advanced degree and/or relevant professional certifications such as CPP (Certified Protection Professional), PSP (Professional Security Professional), CBCP/MBCP (Certified/Master Business Continuity Professional), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), or comparable security, safety, resilience, or risk credentials preferred.

Workplace

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 295,000 to USD 335,000 per annum.

Benefits

Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401(K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance, Tuition assistance

Culture

Tapestry fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, craftsmanship, and consumer insight come together across its portfolio of iconic fashion and lifestyle brands. As an employer, it encourages entrepreneurial thinking, global perspective, and continuous growth, empowering teams to shape meaningful brand experiences while contributing to a culture of innovation and belonging.

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