Tapestry Vice President of Global Asset Protection, Security and 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.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously develop a global organization spanning Asset Protection, Corporate Security, Global Security Operations, Safety, and related enterprise risk disciplines, with governance, accountability, succession planning, and operating standards.
• Advise the General Counsel, executive leadership, and senior stakeholders on global security, safety, crisis, continuity, and emerging-risk matters.
• Set enterprise security and safety strategy, governance, operating standards, investment priorities, and performance measures across brands and geographies.
• Oversee global function budgets, capital investments, security technology, analytics, third-party providers, and resource allocation in line with enterprise risk and business priorities.
• Maintain strategic relationships with law enforcement, intelligence, emergency-management, landlord and property-management, and private-sector security partners worldwide.
• Set and govern global Asset Protection strategy across stores, corporate locations, fulfillment and distribution operations, and other 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, loss trends, control failures, and corrective-action opportunities.
• Provide executive oversight of complex, sensitive investigations involving theft, fraud, misconduct, organized retail crime, threats, policy violations, and other matters affecting people, assets, operations, or reputation.
• Direct global physical-security strategy 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 integrate risk mitigation into operations.
• Provide executive leadership and strategic direction for the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) as the enterprise hub for threat awareness, protective intelligence, incident intake and escalation, emergency communications, and coordinated response.
• Evolve the GSOC operating model, staffing, technology, workflows, intelligence capabilities, service levels, and global coverage to meet business needs and changing risks.
• Establish enterprise protocols for 24/7 threat monitoring, incident triage and verification, escalation, notification, executive briefings, and cross-functional coordination for events affecting employees, executives, facilities, stores, fulfillment centers, travel, events, or operations.
• Direct the collection, assessment, and dissemination of actionable intelligence on geopolitical developments, civil unrest, crime, severe weather, terrorism, workplace threats, travel risk, online threats, and other emerging issues.
• Own the enterprise emergency-communications framework, including mass-notification governance, audience segmentation, message approval, escalation criteria, testing, and critical-event communications with employees and leaders.
• Develop executive reporting and exception-based intelligence products that translate threats and incident trends into business risks, recommended actions, and leadership decisions.
• Set global corporate-security strategy and oversee security operations at headquarters and other designated corporate locations, including access control, visitor management, security officers, surveillance, emergency procedures, and facility protection.
• Establish risk-based executive-protection protocols for the Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives, covering protective intelligence, travel risk, transportation security, advance planning, residential considerations when appropriate, and scalable protection based on threat and exposure.
• Direct enterprise event security 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 workplace-violence prevention and threat management, including behavioral threat assessment, case governance, escalation protocols, multidisciplinary response, and law-enforcement coordination when appropriate.
• Establish proactive online-threat awareness to identify, assess, escalate, and coordinate responses to digital or social-media activity posing credible physical-security risks to executives, employees, facilities, events, or brands.
• Lead global security incident response and establish an enterprise framework for rapid assessment, command, escalation, cross-functional coordination, executive communication, and recovery.
• Own and advance the global Business Continuity Management (BCM) program, establishing enterprise governance, methodology, standards, accountability, and reporting across brands, regions, and critical functions.
• Identify critical processes and dependencies through business impact analyses and risk assessments, and ensure continuity, recovery, and resilience strategies are developed, maintained, and aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Establish requirements for continuity plans, crisis playbooks, escalation protocols, recovery strategies, and cross-functional response structures, with clear ownership across functions and geographies.
• Direct enterprise exercises, tabletop simulations, and testing of continuity and crisis-response plans; identify gaps, track remediation, and report organizational readiness and residual risk to executive leadership.
• Integrate the GSOC, emergency communications, crisis management, and business continuity programs into a coordinated global capability for threat detection, employee notification, incident command, business response, and recovery.
• Partner with Technology, Supply Chain, Operations, Human Resources, Legal, Finance, Facilities, and brand leadership to strengthen resilience and support recovery from disruptions affecting people, facilities, systems, suppliers, or operations.
• Set enterprise Health and Safety strategy and governance across corporate offices, stores, and fulfillment and distribution centers, ensuring risks are identified, compliance obligations understood, and corrective actions implemented.
• Oversee occupational safety in fulfillment and 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, partnering with operators and subject-matter experts to support compliance and consistent practices.
• Oversee workplace-safety education, emergency preparedness, drills, and awareness programs; use incident data and leading indicators to identify systemic risks and improve prevention.
• Establish data-driven performance and governance across Asset Protection, Security, Safety, GSOC, and Business Continuity, using KPIs, KRIs, incident trends, intelligence, and exception-based reporting to assess effectiveness and prioritize risk reduction.
• Provide 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, ensuring global consistency while accounting for regional legal, regulatory, cultural, and operational requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in law enforcement, criminal justice, security, risk management, business, safety, or a related field preferred; advanced degree is a plus.
• 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 and security risk, and legal and regulatory considerations associated with multinational security operations.
• Proven ability to operate at executive level, influence senior stakeholders, lead through complex, high-pressure incidents, and translate technical risk information into clear business decisions.
• Exceptional organizational leadership, including building high-performing teams, developing senior talent, establishing accountability, and leading across diverse cultures and geographies.
• Advanced degree and/or relevant professional certifications such as CPP, PSP, CBCP/MBCP, CISSP, or comparable security, safety, resilience, or risk credentials is preferred.
• Significant experience supporting executive and event protection programs for high-profile leaders and global brands is preferred.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale security, crisis, safety, and continuity programs within a complex multinational organization, preferably with retail, corporate, and fulfillment or distribution operations, is preferred.
• Established relationships with law enforcement, emergency-management, intelligence, and private-sector security partners, with demonstrated experience coordinating responses to significant domestic and international events, are preferred.

Skills

Experience

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.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in law enforcement, criminal justice, security, risk management, business, safety, or a related field preferred; advanced degree is a plus.

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 285,000 to USD 300,000 per annum.

Benefits

Annual bonus and equity; medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid paternity and maternity leave, commuter benefits, disability insurance, and 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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