Sr Director, Corporate Security

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Job Description

The Senior Director Corporate Security is responsible for defining leading and continuously evolving Gileads global corporate security strategy operating model and performance outcomes. This role owns the delivery of security operations across a complex highly regulated global footprint ensuring the protection of employees facilities physical assets and critical business operations.

Reporting to the Vice President Corporate Operations within the CFO organization this role serves as both a strategic advisor and operational leader providing executivelevel guidance during routine operations periods of transformation and highconsequence crisis events. The role leads a globally distributed team and oversees integration of security capabilities across physical technical investigative intelligence and operational domains.

The Senior Director will partner closely with Legal IT HR Facilities Compliance Manufacturing R&D Finance and executive leadership to align security strategies with enterprise objectives regulatory expectations employee safety and business continuity addition the role will drive the modernization of the corporate security program through technology enablement intelligenceled approaches datadriven decisionmaking and continuous improvement ensuring the function scales to meet evolving risk and business needs.

Core Responsibilities:

Global Corporate Security Leadership & Operations

• Own global delivery of corporate security operations globally providing strategic direction and operational oversight to protect employees facilities physical assets and business continuity.

• Ensure consistent global standards governance and operational execution while addressing regional risk regulatory and business requirements.

• Integrate physical technical investigative intelligence and operational security capabilities to anticipate emerging threats and drive proactive enterprisewide risk mitigation.

• Develop measurable performance metrics conduct regular risk assessments and lead continuous operational improvement initiatives.

Organizational Development

• Build and sustain a highperforming global security organization focused on accountability capability building and continuous development.

• Lead organizational design talent planning and change management efforts to ensure the security organization evolves in alignment with corporate growth transformation initiatives and an evolving risk landscape.

Crisis Leadership & Executive DecisionMaking

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership during highpressure timecritical situations such as major incidents crises and highconsequence security events

• Own global emergency preparedness crisis management and incident response programs including coordination with executive stakeholders GSOC and intelligence capabilities and external agencies such as law enforcement and regulators.

• Deliver clear timely and actionable risk assessments and recommendations to enable informed executive decisionmaking and ensure continuity of enterprise operations.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Influence senior leaders across Legal IT HR Compliance Facilities Manufacturing R&D and Finance to embed security considerations into enterprise programs while aligning with business objectives.

• Own global vendor strategy thirdparty security provider governance and contract management to deliver scalable costeffective and highquality security services.

• Maintain strong partnerships with external stakeholders including law enforcement intelligence networks and regulatory bodies to support investigations incident response and regulatory engagement.

Minimum Required Education and Years of Experience

• Bachelors Degree and Fourteen Years Experience; OR

• Masters Degree and Twelve Years Experience; OR

• PhD and Twelve Years Experience

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 14 years of progressive experience in corporate government military or law enforcement security roles with significant leadership responsibility; Masters degree preferred.

• Demonstrated success leading enterprisescale security operations globally with accountability for risk outcomes operational performance and global consistency.

• Experience providing executivelevel counsel and decision support during crises major incidents and sensitive investigations in highpressure ambiguous environments.

• Experience modernizing security programs through technology enablement intelligenceled approaches datadriven decision making and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated financial acumen including management of significant global budgets and thirdparty security providers at scale.

• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and convey risk insights with clarity and impact.

• Proven ability to build lead and develop highperforming global teams including coaching senior leaders and driving organizational transformation.

• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

• Develop Talent - understand the skills experience aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow develop and realize their purpose.

• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals purpose and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

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