SVP, Physical Security Governance & Protective Intelligence

WesBanco, Inc.; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

WesBanco, Inc. in Findlay, OH, seeks a Director of Physical Security Governance & Protective Intelligence to lead the bank's enterprise security program.

This executive role designs strategy, policy, and risk-based standards for protecting employees, customers, facilities, and critical assets. You will oversee threat management, protective intelligence, incident response, and coordination with law enforcement, while guiding governance, audits, and executive reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of physical security governance, risk management, threat assessment, protective intelligence, workplace violence prevention, investigations, and crisis management.
• Ability to distinguish governance and oversight responsibilities from first-line operational execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefings, board-level reporting, policies, standards, risk assessments, and incident summaries.
• Ability to evaluate physical security technologies and services from a risk, control, resilience, lifecycle, and regulatory perspective.
• Strong relationship-management skills with internal stakeholders, law enforcement, government agencies, service providers, and industry peers.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority matters and make defensible, risk-based decisions under pressure.
• Ability to manage regulatory examinations and audit cycles, including remediation of findings.
• Ability to learn new technologies and keep up with industry trends.
• Professional demeanor in appearance, interpersonal relations, work ethic and attitude.
• Ability to interact across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated leadership ability and skills.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Willingness to travel quarterly for onsite meetings.

Responsibilities

• 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 board-level reporting on physical security risk, program maturity, significant events, emerging threats, and remediation status, and maintains current professional knowledge of evolving practices.

Skills

Security governance

Risk management

Threat assessment

Protective intelligence

Workplace violence prevention

Executive communication

Incident response

Liaison with law enforcement

Education

Bachelor's degree in criminal justice or related field

Job description

WesBanco, Inc. in Findlay, OH, seeks a Director of Physical Security Governance & Protective Intelligence to lead the bank's enterprise security program.

This executive role designs strategy, policy, and risk-based standards for protecting employees, customers, facilities, and critical assets. You will oversee threat management, protective intelligence, incident response, and coordination with law enforcement, while guiding governance, audits, and executive reporting.