Head of Operational Security

This senior leadership role is responsible for shaping and delivering the Air Sector’s physical and operational security strategy, ensuring the effective protection of people, assets, infrastructure and operations across a complex multi-site environment.

Operating within a shared service model, the role leads the delivery of physical, technical and operational security services across the Air Sector, ensuring a consistent, intelligence-led and risk-based approach to security.

Working closely with operational leaders and senior stakeholders, the postholder will drive security performance, strengthen resilience, manage emerging threats and ensure security arrangements remain aligned to business priorities and customer requirements.

The role provides leadership to geographically dispersed security teams, overseeing security operations, protective security measures, incident management and operational resilience activities, while continuously improving capability to meet an evolving threat landscape