Vendor Security & Standards Manager

What you'll do

• Standards Ownership & Enforcement — Own the Nebius vendor security standards framework, ensuring it is current, comprehensive, and enforceable across all vendor categories including carriers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, guarding companies, and last-mile providers.
• Maintain and update vendor-facing security requirements, obligations, and compliance benchmarks in line with NGSCS policy and global best practice; define and enforce a zero tolerance compliance policy with clear escalation paths for non-compliance.
• Ensure all vendors are formally onboarded against NGSCS security standards, including documented acceptance of requirements prior to operational engagement.
• Work with NGSCS leadership, legal, and procurement to embed vendor security requirements in contracts and service agreements.
• Physical Compliance Verification — Conduct regular, unannounced, and scheduled on-site compliance inspections at vendor facilities, transit points, and operational environments globally; verify controls align with Nebius standards (access control, personnel screening, CCTV, handling procedures, tamper-evidence, chain of custody).
• Assess vendor compliance against TAPA FSR, TAPA TSR, and NGSCS-specific requirements; document findings and produce clear compliance reports and gap assessments.
• Identify systemic compliance risks and escalate to NGSCS leadership with remediation strategies; drive gap closure and corrective action processes with timelines.
• Issue formal corrective action notices, track remediation, and re-inspect to verify effectiveness; maintain a global vendor compliance register.
• Escalate persistent or severe non-compliance to Head of Global Supply Chain Security, with recommendations for sanctions, suspension, or replacement.
• Vendor Engagement & Performance Management — Serve as primary NGSCS contact for vendor security compliance globally; communicate expectations to vendor leadership; conduct regular vendor security reviews and performance assessments; drive a culture of security accountability; support onboarding of new vendors by assessing security posture.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement — Produce regular global vendor compliance reports; identify non-compliance patterns and recommend systemic improvements; contribute to updates of NGSCS policy, SOPs, and vendor documentation.

Requirements

• Significant experience in supply chain security compliance, vendor auditing.