Global Security Governance Planning Lead responsible for security planning and governance frameworks at Vanguard. Overseeing compliance and operational readiness across regions while ensuring collaborative stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
Defines and governs enterprise security planning and exercise doctrine for Global Physical Security, including required structure, minimum content, quality thresholds, and acceptance criteria, under the direction of the Head of Governance.
Leads development and maintenance of governance frameworks used across security pillars (site security, executive protection, travel and event security, intelligence and investigations), ensuring consistent application of standards and operating rhythms.
Sets the approach and standards for enterprise security plans and playbooks; operational teams develop, execute, and sustain approved plans in accordance with established governance requirements.
Reviews security plans and playbooks against defined standards, readiness criteria, regulatory expectations, and provides formal recommendations to the Head of Governance for review and approval.
Evaluates planning and exercise outcomes to determine whether they demonstrate operational readiness to identify and prioritize capability gaps, risks, and remediation options.
Establishes governance requirements for exercises, including objectives, scope, and success criteria, to validate plans and inform readiness assessments, partnering with pillar leads to support execution.
Provides governance oversight for multi-year security training and exercise programs, aligning priorities, cadence, and validation objectives without assuming operational ownership.
Maintains the enterprise security planning roadmap, tracking governance improvement initiatives and maturity advancement across regions and pillars.
Synthesizes operational input into impact-based analysis and escalates planning and readiness risks through established governance channels with recommended actions.
Presents executive-level assessments of security planning posture and readiness in enterprise forums, supported by pillar leads or their designees, to inform leadership decision-making.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in security, emergency management, business continuity, or related fields, with demonstrated responsibility for governance, standards, or program oversight functions.
Experience establishing, reviewing, and governing enterprise-level plans, policies, and procedures for large, multi-site or multinational organizations.
Demonstrated capability applying and governing standards such as ASIS, ISO, NFPA, and relevant regulatory requirements to define structure, quality thresholds, and compliance expectations.
Strong understanding of enterprise security planning processes, with the ability to assess integration, consistency, and operational applicability across diverse regions and business environments.
Proven success leading complex governance workstreams, coordinating across multiple stakeholder groups, security pillars, and geographies without direct operational ownership.
Experience using exercise and evaluation methodologies (such as HSEEP or equivalent) to establish validation objectives, assess readiness outcomes, and inform governance recommendations and remediation priorities.
Experience evaluating training and exercise effectiveness, including alignment to enterprise objectives, readiness criteria, and capability maturity, without serving as the primary instructor or facilitator.
Working knowledge of the Incident Command System or equivalent incident management frameworks, with demonstrated ability to translate principles into governance, planning, and readiness assessment contexts for a multinational organization.
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