Vice President, Protective Operations and Logistics

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President, Protective Operations & Logistics to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of global logistical and operational support for executive and corporate protective services. This role ensures protective operations are delivered seamlessly, securely, and efficiently across all environments, enabling protection teams to operate with speed, resilience, and confidence.

In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:
- Lead global logistical planning and operational enablement for executive protection, event security, site security, and special protective operations.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive domestic and international operational plans, including advance work, route planning, secure accommodations, and contingency protocols.
- Ensure protective operational plans are aligned with threat assessments, intelligence inputs, and protection strategies.
- Oversee all logistics supporting protective operations, including transportation, travel, lodging, equipment, communications, and access credentials.
- Direct inventory, maintenance, and lifecycle management of protective equipment, technology, and specialized assets.
- Coordinate secure movement of personnel and assets, ensuring redundancy, business continuity, and rapid response capability across regions.
- Manage third party vendors and service providers supporting protective logistics, ensuring performance, compliance, and cost discipline.
- Partner closely with executive protection leadership, intelligence teams, travel, facilities, and enterprise risk stakeholders to deliver integrated protective outcomes.

What you'll bring to the role:
- Extensive experience leading protective operations, logistics, or security programs supporting senior executives and high risk environments.
- Demonstrated expertise in operational planning, logistics management, and complex global coordination.
- Strong understanding of protective risk management, threat mitigation, and operational resilience.
- Proven ability to manage vendors, budgets, and assets within a highly regulated corporate environment.
- Exceptional leadership, judgment, and decision making skills under time sensitive and high pressure conditions.
- Ability to partner effectively with senior executives and cross functional stakeholders across geographies.
- Willingness to support domestic and international travel as required.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $130,000 and $183,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).