SVP & Director of Physical Security - Information Technology

This position is 100% in office. The employee will work full time in an office in a designated Wes Banco location. Consideration for location will be Bank Plaza - Wheeling, WV
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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.

• Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, intelligence studies, security management, homeland security, emergency management, public administration, military science, or a related field is required.
• In the absence of a bachelor's degree, substantial relevant law enforcement, intelligence, or military leadership experience is required and may be considered as a substitute for the degree requirement.
• Minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience across law enforcement, intelligence, military security, force protection, anti-terrorism, protective services, investigations, physical security, threat assessment, corporate security investigations or a closely related discipline is required.
• Demonstrated experience conducting threat assessments, risk assessments, intelligence analysis, investigations, agency liaison, crisis response or protective planning is required.
• Minimum of five years of experience leading programs, personnel, investigations, intelligence activities, governance functions, or cross-functional risk initiatives is required.
• Experience briefing senior executives and translating complex threat or risk information into clear business recommendations is required.
• Experience working with federal, state, or local law enforcement, intelligence, homeland security, military, regulatory, or industry information-sharing partners is required.
• Experience in banking, financial services, critical infrastructure, government, defense, or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
• Experience overseeing physical security programs delivered by operational teams or third-party providers is preferred.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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…