Information Security Lead Europe & Finance - 9-12 months Secondment

Title: Information Security Lead Europe & Finance - 9-12 months Secondment

Reporting into: Tom Baker

Work Level:2C

Location: Kingston/ Port Sunlight

A vacancy exists for the Information Security Lead (ISL) for Europe within Unilever’s cyber function. The successful candidate will be responsible for the European region achieving and maintaining Cyber Security objectives, standards, awareness, and compliance, defined using a ‘Risk Based’ approach. This leadership position will report to the regional Business Information Security Lead (BISO).

Key areas under this role delivered by the ISL team include:
Cyber security solution engineering and risk advisory across Unilever businesses, assuring appropriate risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting.
Supporting the BISO for engagement with the Finance Product teams.
Ensuring the deployment and running of security tooling in Europe, in conjunction with the Tech & Ops team.
Ensuring the Security Operations Centers (SOC) have full visibility across the ecosystem and actively participate in incident response at the direction of the Head of Incident Response.
Developing and delivering risk reports for Europe.
Tailoring cyber training and awareness in Europe in alignment and partnership with the Cyber Training and Awareness Lead.
Leading cyber cultural transformation across Europe in line with our Security Strategy and Transformation program.
Maintaining and effectively directing the timely closure of security exceptions in businesses while reporting status to the Governance, Risk, Assurance and Compliance (GRAC) team.
Providing standards and controls feedback, based on local implementation requirements to the GRAC team to help shape global policies and standards.
Partner with the BISO for Supply Chain and R&D to ensure appropriate cyber risk mitigation for those functional areas within their region of responsibility.
Testing business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) in the region.

The position calls for a strategic individual with strong communication and influencing skills, who can roll their sleeves up tactically to understand business operations, digital transformation, cloud, applications, information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), internet of things (IoT) and Cybersecurity. This leader will utilize her/his knowledge and experience to assist with the implementation of an effective global cyber security program that ensures the overall cyber security posture of the company is aligned with business needs and balanced to protect in the evolving threat landscape. This role supports the Global CISO in building strong relationships with internal leaders and senior executives, along with the other senior Cyber Security leadership team, on matters of cyber security and cyber risk, to foster the execution of cyber security as a business enabler.