Group Chief Security Officer in a Major Nationwide Logistics and Transport Company


  2026-07-13
  Lagos, Nigeria
  6–12
  Logistics & Supply Chain

Vodstra Limited - Our client is a major nationwide logistics and transport company operating high-value cargo, passenger routes, terminals, and interstate corridors across Nigeria.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Group Chief Security Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

  • We are seeking tested intelligence professional from the Nigerian Armed Forces or Police Intelligence units to take full strategic and operational control of corporate security nationwide.
  • We are specifically targeting senior intelligence personnel with deep field experience in threat assessment, counterintelligence, asset protection, and coordinated security operations within Nigeria.

Who This Role Is For
This position is strictly for candidates who have:

  • Operated in high-risk, high-pressure security environments involving organized crime, cargo theft, sabotage, or insurgent threats
  • Held senior operational intelligence roles with command or regional oversight responsibilities
  • Served in the Intelligence Corps of the Nigerian Army, Naval Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, or the Nigeria Police Intelligence Bureau (or equivalent classified units)
  • Led structured intelligence teams with measurable operational outcomes
  • If you have not functioned at this level within a recognized intelligence formation, do not apply.
  • Managed threat analysis, surveillance operations, risk mitigation, and coordinated multi-agency responses

Key Responsibilities

  • Preventing cargo theft, route hijacking, internal collusion, vandalism, and organized criminal infiltration
  • Building a disciplined, corruption-resistant internal security team
  • Designing and leading a nationwide corporate security and intelligence architecture
  • Reporting directly to executive leadership with actionable threat intelligence and risk forecasts.
  • Coordinating with military formations, police commands, DSS, NSCDC, and other security agencies
  • Leading investigations, covert audits, and internal security assessments
  • Establishing proactive intelligence gathering networks across operational corridors
  • Protecting high-value cargo, terminals, fleet assets, warehouses, and personnel
  • Developing crisis response protocols and rapid deployment frameworks
  • Implementing surveillance systems, tracking infrastructure, and intelligence reporting structures

Candidate Profile

  • Must have verifiable intelligence unit experience
  • Strategic thinker with operational discipline and execution focus
  • Strong investigative capability with documented case outcomes
  • Experience coordinating joint-task or inter-agency security operations
  • Proven leadership of structured intelligence teams or regional security commands
  • High ethical standards and demonstrated resistance to compromise
  • 6–12 years of progressive intelligence and operational security experience
  • Ability to travel nationwide and respond rapidly to emerging threats.
  • Deep understanding of Nigeria’s internal security landscape, transport corridor risks, and organized criminal patterns

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to design and institutionalize a national security framework
  • Direct access to executive leadership and authority to implement structural change
  • Executive-level compensation aligned with performance and asset protection outcomes
  • A platform to create measurable reduction in losses, theft, and operational risk.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Application Deadline: 28th July, 2026.


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