Our client is a global pharmaceutical company; one of the largest worldwide. It has operations in some 50 countries around the world and is active on all continents. Employs approximately 85,000 people worldwide.

• Global IT Transformation
• Re-structure
• Full accountability and autonomy over security operations
• Growth of internal team

Potential Locations:

• New York/New Jersey
• LA
• Texas
• San Francisco
• Miami
• Boston
• Netherlands

Responsibilities:

• Security Operations / Strategy and Project Delivery
• Policy + standards
• Cloud Security (AWS & Azure)
• Security framework + architecture
• Identity and access management
• Data loss and fraud prevention
• Security Governance
• Threat Monitoring
• Budget

• Participate and contribute as an effective member of the executive leadership team, working closely with the Chief Information Officer / Board.
• Set security strategy in association with the CTO, driving roadmaps to deliver key security initiatives
• The CISO will work across all relevant departments to attain the company’s strategic goals, including setting business requirements, assessing and improving security architecture, and ensuring the implementation of market-leading design.
• He / she will communicate with staff, executives, and customers to ensure the company’s technologies are used appropriately and optimally, in alignment with strategy + cost.
• He or she will be responsible for ensuring information security services and costs are competitive with appropriate benchmarks. Previous experience managing an information security budget required.
• Responsible for managing strategic vendor relationships for information security technologies.
• Engage with the industry and partners to understand industry trends, create business cases for best practices and implement changes to stay abreast of evolving threats/risks to the business process outsourcing industry to ensure a proactive posture.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide vision, strategy, architecture, and program for ensuring that information assets are adequately protected.
• Responsible for monitoring and assessing the overall compliance of the organization with information security regulations, policies, programs, and procedures.
• Growth of internal team and the downsize partner resources to build up security team.
• Provide strategic guidance of all technology and engineering-related decisions, including product roadmap, to maximize the company’s future growth and profitability.
• Evaluate and evolve current application architecture, handle verification and validation of mission critical software, and aid in decision-making aimed at developing a more seamless, scalable product. (This could include a product rebuild if deemed necessary).

Salary: Negotiable, dependant.