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Role overview and scope 

The Country President Finland is a full CEO-equivalent role with comprehensive responsibility for Securitas’ Finnish operations. The role carries end-to-end accountability for strategy, performance and leadership across all legal entities Securitas Oy, Securitas Palvelut Oy and Securitas Events Oy, ensuring a coherent market approach, strong governance and effective collaboration across service lines and business models. A close and seamless collaboration with Securitas Technology Oy is crucial for maximising synergies between technology and services. 

Reporting line and matrix leadership 

Reporting to the COO, North-West Europe, the Country President is a core member of leadership community and acts as both a national business leader and a contributor to wider divisional and group priorities. The role requires the ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment, balancing strong local ownership with alignment to global strategy, transformation initiatives and shared operating models. 

Mandate and key priorities 

The mandate extends beyond managing the current business. The Country President is expected to lead Securitas Finland through a decisive transition phase – moving from prolonged market pressure toward sustainable, structurally stronger and more differentiated growth. This includes: 

• Setting a clear strategic direction for the Finnish market, aligned with group and divisional priorities while tailored to local customer needs and market dynamics. 

• Driving commercial focus and growth, with particular emphasis on customer centricity, long-term partnerships and higher-value integrated solutions. 

• Accelerating and embedding service–technology integration, ensuring that technology is not a parallel offering but an integral part of service delivery, solution design and go-to-market models. 

• Strengthening financial and operational performance, including profitability, cost discipline, cash flow management and the continued development of reporting, business intelligence and decision-support capabilities. 

People leadership and succession 

A central element of the role is people and leadership responsibility. The Country President leads the Finnish executive team and has full accountability for leadership effectiveness, talent development and succession planning across the organisation. With two executive team members expected to retire in the coming years, the role offers a tangible opportunity to renew and shape the leadership team organically over time, building a future-oriented leadership structure that supports strategic priorities, cultural development and long-term performance. 

Culture, engagement and change leadership 

The Country President is also expected to act as a visible, values-driven leader, reinforcing engagement, trust and stability following recent organisational adjustments. Employee experience, leadership quality and cultural continuity are critical success factors as the business moves back into a growth-oriented phase. 

External representation and stakeholder influence 

Beyond internal leadership, the role carries a strong external and societal dimension. The Country President represents Securitas Finland in key industry and employer forums and plays an active role in important stakeholder and advocacy organisations such as Palta and SVLL. These roles are integral to influencing industry development, supporting employer representation and positioning Securitas as a responsible, forward-looking leader within the Finnish security and services landscape. 

Leadership in a highly regulated operating environment 

It needs to be noted, that the role is leading a business that operates in a highly regulated and closely supervised environment. Securitas Finland delivers services that fall under several critical regulatory frameworks.  As a result, the Country President is accountable for ensuring that all operations meet strict legal, licensing and compliance requirements, and that governance, risk management and ethical standards are embedded in daily leadership and decision-making. This includes engaging proactively with authorities, anticipating regulatory developments and ensuring that compliance supports – rather than restricts – commercial and operational excellence. 

The Candidate 

Securitas is looking for a Country President who combines strong business leadership with credibility in a people-intensive operating environment and the ability to accelerate profitable growth together with technology. The ideal candidate will demonstrate: 

• CEO-equivalent leadership experience (e.g., country/business unit leadership) with full P&L accountability. 

• Proven ability to drive commercial growth and improve profitability through clear priorities, execution discipline and customer focus. 

• Strong people leadership track record in large, distributed and frontline-heavy organisations; experience in building high-performing leadership teams, engagement and succession planning. 

• Demonstrated change leadership capability (e.g., transformation, operating model development, integration of new offerings or ways of working). 

• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment and collaborate across business lines and legal entities, including close partnering with technology leadership. 

• Experience working in an international context, with exposure to global processes, cross-border stakeholder collaboration and/or multicultural teams. 

• Stakeholder management and external representation skills, including experience working with customers, partners, unions/employer organisations and authorities. 

• Strong governance mindset and comfort operating in a regulated environment; commitment to compliance, ethics and risk management. 

• Excellent communication skills; fluency in Finnish and English is expected. 

In addition to experience and capabilities, the successful candidate is expected to demonstrate the following personal qualities: 

• Innovative and forward-looking mindset; curiosity to explore new solutions and ways of working. 

• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to simplify complexity and make sound decisions under pressure. Analytical and business-oriented; combines data with judgement and customer insight. 

• Execution-driven and accountable; translates strategy into action and delivers results. 

• High integrity and trust-building leadership style; acts as a role model for ethics and compliance. 

• Resilient and adaptable; comfortable leading through ambiguity and change. 

• Collaborative and inclusive; able to engage and influence across functions, cultures and stakeholders. “One Securitas”-mentality. 

The Opportunity 

Overall, the Country President Finland combines strategic leadership, operational excellence, people leadership and external influence. Success in the role requires the ability to build momentum, align a complex organisation behind clear priorities and lead with confidence through change, while maintaining strong relationships with customers, employees, partners and societal stakeholders. 

For the right leader, this role offers a rare and highly attractive opportunity to shape the future of Securitas in Finland. The combination of a strong brand, a stabilised operational platform, improving market conditions and the ability to influence both the leadership team composition and the industry agenda provides a powerful platform for long-term impact at national and Nordic level. 

WHAT WE OFFER:

At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them a multitude of talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.

REPORTING TO: COO

LOCATION: Finland

LANGUAGE:  English (fluent, spoken and written) all other languages are nice to have.

PAY: The role's salary is based on the scale, the candidate's location and their experience.