About the role

  • Define and own a multi-year cybersecurity roadmap and key performance indicators focused on reducing cyber risk.
  • Create quarterly, annual and long-term cyber security and cyber risk management goals, articulate strategies, define metrics, and provide necessary updates to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
  • Lead Security Incident Response, Third Party Information Security Assessment, Data Protection and Encryption, Identity & Access Management and Privileged User Access to protect customer and employee data.
  • Define cyber security governance and control strategies for emerging technologies such as cloud & containerization, block-chain and distributed computing.
  • Keep well informed of developing security threats, and proactively create strategies to understand and mitigate potential security problems that might arise from acquisitions or other big business moves.
  • Develop, implement, and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise-wide information security and risk management program.
  • Provide strategic and tactical vision around adversary and threat detection, incident response, and asset fortification.
  • Advise the CDIO, executive leadership, and digital leaders on security issues and threats.
  • Responsibility for overseeing the design, testing and Implementation of all IT Security solutions.
  • Oversight of the day-to-day control of the maintenance and monitoring live production environments.
  • Strategic planning, leadership, staff development, training, and adherence to all legal, compliance and regulatory requirements.
  • Definition, Scoping, Creation and execution of IT and Data Security strategies enhancing the reliability and security of the IT systems, projects, and underlying data at your organization.
  • Overseeing managers and teams that you are responsible for, allocating resources to ensure that staff deliver secure and robust IT solutions to any of the organizations identified and agreed requirements.
  • Overseeing planning and execution of necessary vulnerability audits, penetration testing or forensic IT audits and investigations.
  • Ensure that outputs improve organisation IT Security.
  • Liaise with senior level directors, the organisations board and other key stakeholders plus managers, programmers, and IT Security risk-assessment staff under your remit.
  • Oversee integration of new IT Systems Development with the organisations overall IT, Data, and Information Security policies.
  • Oversee staff training in all the latest security awareness skills, check associated protocols, methodologies and procedures are implemented.
  • Ensure compliance with any related legislation, such as the Data Protection Act, ISO standards or relevant government regulations.
  • Plan budget allocations and associated financial forecasts relating to IT, Data, and Information security.
  • Manage your staff’s technical and personal development, new hires, dispute resolution, redundancy and potentially termination of staff.
  • Liaise with and manage your partners, stakeholders, vendors, and third-party service or solutions providers.
  • Oversee projects, budgets and resources under your remit with a view to ensuring that your organisation gets a favourable return on IT investments in staff, hardware, software and service providers.
  • GRC/Audit responsibility.

Requirements

  • Degree in business administration or a technology-related field required
  • Relevant professional security management certification(s) required
  • 8+ years of experience in overseeing information, cyber and technology security required
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience with a global organization
  • Experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management including managed services
  • Specific experience in Agile (scaled) software development or other best in class development practices
  • Experience with Cloud computing/Elastic computing across virtualized environment
  • In depth project management skills
  • Good understanding of all current legislation and regulations pertaining to the organization
  • Successful track record of effective coordination, prioritization, collaboration, organization, and project delivery
  • Experience in financial forecasting and budget allocation
  • Knowledge of relevant IT Security related hardware, software, and vendor solutions
  • An overall understanding of the scripting and source code programming languages, such as C#, C++, .NET, Java, Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby on Rails etc.
  • Practical experience of computer operating systems such as MS Windows, UNIX/Linux
  • Deep thinking analytical mind with the ability to quickly get to the root cause of issues.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity
  • Innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams.

Benefits

  • Health benefits on the first day of employment
  • 401K savings plans
  • Vision and dental
  • Annual bonus based on company performance
  • Flexible working arrangement (hybrid) over 2 days remote and 3 days in-office

Job title

Head of Digital Security

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$228,700 - $331,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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