Executive Protection Lead

Job Family

Facilities and Property Management

Job Description Summary

The Executive Protection lead provides professional security-driving and protective-support services to designated executives. As a member of the Enterprise Security program, this position supports the safe, discreet, and efficient movement of executives while minimizing disruption to their business and personal activities.

This position contribute to protective operations, advance planning, secure transportation, residential and workplace security, event support, protective intelligence, and emergency response. The role requires sound judgment, discretion, adaptability, and the ability to operate effectively in dynamic environments.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide professional security-driving services for designated executives during business hours, with occasional evening and weekend assignments.
• Plan and execute executive-protection assignments throughout Philadelphia.
• Coordinate with third-party security providers to support executive travel and movement outside the region.
• Conduct security advances for offices, residences, hotels, venues, airports, and special events.
• Review executive itineraries and identify transportation, venue, medical, security, and contingency requirements.
• Coordinate protective activities with executive assistants, vendors, building security teams, event personnel, local authorities, and the Security Command Center.
• Maintain a high degree of discretion while minimizing disruption to executive activities.
• Support threat and vulnerability assessments involving executives, meetings, and corporate events.
• Monitor relevant threats in coordination with Security Command Center and intelligence personnel.
• Develop and maintain primary, alternate, emergency, and evacuation plans.
• Maintain all required licenses, training, equipment, and operational-readiness standards.
• Partner with the other regional executive protection specialist and travel as assignments require.
• Assist in developing and improving executive-protection policies, standards, procedures, training, and performance reporting.
• Handle sensitive information in accordance with applicable privacy, legal, and information-security requirements.
• Participate in exercises and cross-functional threat-management activities.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years professional experience in executive protection, dignitary protection, corporate security, military protective operations, or law enforcement.
• Demonstrated experience conducting advances and managing executive-travel or event-security assignments.
• Formal training in defensive or tactical driving.
• Strong judgment, discretion, communication, and de-escalation skills.
• Ability to remain calm and make sound decisions when operating with incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Experience coordinating with executive assistants, professional drivers, vendors, facilities teams, security personnel, and law-enforcement agencies.
• Valid driver’s license and the ability to satisfy all applicable licensing requirements.
• Ability to travel and work nonstandard hours based on operational and executive needs.
• Extensive familiarity with the Philadelphia metropolitan areas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated corporate environment.
• Relevant credentials in executive protection, security management, emergency management, or emergency medicine.
• Experience with protective intelligence or open-source research.
• Emergency medical training.
• Familiarity with access-control systems, video surveillance, emergency-notification platforms, incident-management processes, and security command-center operations.

What We Offer  

For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees. 

Compensation Benefits 

• Competitive Pay 

• Bonus for Eligible Employees 

Benefits Package 

• Pension Plan 

• 401k Match

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Disability Insurance

• Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Career Training & Development Opportunities

Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits 

• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.

• Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).

• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars 

• Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.

• Adoption Assistance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Back-Up Care Program

• PTO for Volunteer Hours

• Employee Matching Gifts Program

• Employee Resource Groups

• Inclusion and Diversity Programs

• Employee Recognition Program

• Referral Bonus Programs

Inclusion & Diversity  

We believe our commitment to diversity and inclusion creates a work environment filled with exceptional individuals. We’re thrilled to have been recognized for our efforts through the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, Dave Thomas Adoption Friendly Advocate, and several Seramount lists, including the Inclusion Index, 100 Best Companies for Working Parents, Best Companies for Dads, and Top 75 Companies for Executive Women. 

To foster a culture of inclusivity throughout our workforce, workplace, and marketplace, Transamerica offers a wide range of diversity and inclusion programs. This includes our company-sponsored, employee-driven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are formed around a shared interest or a common characteristic of diversity. ERGs are open to all employees. They provide a supportive environment to help us better appreciate our similarities and differences and understand how they benefit us all. 

Giving Back  

We believe our responsibilities extend beyond our corporate walls. That's why we created the Aegon Transamerica Foundation in 1994. Through a mix of financial grants and the volunteer efforts of our employees, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations focused on the things that matter most to our people in the communities where we live and work.     

Transamerica’s Parent Company  

Aegon acquired the Transamerica business in 1999. Since its start in 1844, Aegon has  grown into an international company serving more than 23.9 million people across the globe.* It offers investment, protection, and retirement solutions, always with a clear purpose: Helping people live their best lives. As a leading global investor and employer, the company seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues, with a focus on climate change and inclusion and diversity.   

* As of December 31, 2023