SVP & Director of Physical Security - Information Technology

This position is 100% remote within the Bank's footprint. Employee will work full time remote outside of a Wes Banco location (may occasionally attend in person meetings, although primary functions of the role are performed remotely),

The Director of Physical Security Governance & Protective Intelligence leads the Bank's enterprise physical security governance program. The role establishes strategy, policy, standards, risk assessment methodology, oversight, reporting, and continuous improvement expectations for the protection of employees, customers, facilities, and other physical assets. This position serves as the Bank's senior advisor for physical security risk, protective intelligence, threat management, workplace violence prevention, executive threat concerns, and law enforcement coordination.

Day-to-day physical security operations, including monitoring, dispatch, access administration, guard services, equipment maintenance, and frontline incident response, reside with designated operational teams. This role provides program direction, oversight, independent review, and constructive challenge rather than daily operational command.

• Develops, maintains, and executes the enterprise physical security strategy, governance framework, and multi-year program roadmap aligned to the Bank's risk appetite and business priorities.
• Establishes and maintains physical security policies, standards, control requirements, and risk assessment criteria, and defines clear roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability between governance and first-line operational teams.
• Provides oversight and constructive challenge of physical security operations, control execution, incident management, technology services, and third-party performance without assuming responsibility for daily operations.
• Leads enterprise and location-based physical security risk assessments, maintains the physical security risk register, and develops key risk indicators, metrics, and executive reporting to track risks, gaps, remediation, and program effectiveness.
• Develops and oversees a protective intelligence and threat management capability, assessing threats involving workplace violence, targeted violence, robbery, civil unrest, insider activity, criminal trends, executives, employees, facilities, and critical operations.
• Provides timely, risk-based threat briefings and recommendations to senior leadership and appropriate stakeholders.
• Serves as a principal liaison with federal, state, and local law enforcement; intelligence and homeland security partners; fusion centers; and relevant financial-sector information-sharing organizations.
• Provides governance and senior advisory support for significant physical security incidents and investigations—coordinating with Legal, Human Resources, Compliance, Risk Management, and operational teams—and sets expectations for evidence preservation, documentation, confidentiality, escalation, and after-action review.
• Leads or supports threat assessment and workplace violence prevention governance, including executive and event threat risk assessments and risk-based protective recommendations, with operational execution performed by assigned internal or external providers.
• Establishes enterprise requirements and risk-based standards for physical security technologies (access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, alarm monitoring, visitor management, and duress) and reviews significant technology initiatives, lifecycle risks, and investment priorities from a governance perspective.
• Supports compliance with the Bank Protection Act and other applicable regulatory expectations, and coordinates physical security responses for internal audit, external audit, and regulatory examinations, monitoring corrective actions through closure.
• Advises enterprise crisis management, emergency preparedness, business continuity, and incident management teams, and supports tabletop exercises, after-action reviews, and program updates following incidents, exercises, or changes in the threat environment.
• Provides risk and governance input for physical security vendors and other third parties, including due diligence, contract requirements, service performance, and issue escalation.
• Builds collaborative relationships with Branch Operations, Facilities, Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Audit, Technology, business leaders, and physical security operations.
• Prepares concise executive and…