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IFF VP, IT-Chief Info Security Officer in Union Beach, New Jersey
VP, IT-Chief Info Security Officer
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Date:Jul 3, 2024
Location: Union Beach, NJ, US, 07735
Company: IFF Family of Companies
Job Description
It’s an exciting time to be part of the IFF Global IT Team. The VP, Chief Information Security Officer will lead the security organization from end to end. They will work to advance the capabilities and create the roadmaps necessary to embed security into business and technology processes, implement appropriate controls to detect and mitigate risk. If you are a CISO with an excellent leadership skills and a solid experience in the fields mentioned below this role is for you!
You will spend your time doing:
Lead The Information Security, Strategy And Governance:
Develop and execute an enterprise-wide Information Security strategy and roadmap that manages risk
Create and maintain strategic direction and vision for this function; ability to strike the right balance between risk posture, business agility, complexity, and funding.
Partner with engineering, architecture, legal and audit, teams to assure effective policy and control implementations to protect company information assets and comply with local data privacy regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and General Data Protection Regulation.
Present the state of cybersecurity updates to executive and board leadership
Establish and maintain a culture of constant vigilance, information risk management, and industry awareness of information risk and protection of IFF’s information assets and critical business systems and processes.
Build, maintain relationships and extract value from industry-specific cyber security councils.
Chair a business aligned Information Security Risk Steering Committee and program to identify & manage risks and provide regular updates and a decision-making forum
Oversee the maintenance of a global information security and IT risk register, manage & prioritize risks identified.
Develop and Oversee Security Architecture & Engineering:
Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure the development and continuous review of a multi-year Security Architecture that is designed within budget and time constraints to achieve business goals and objectives
Participate in architectural review board meetings for establishing standards, tool selection, and procedures
Design and implement enterprise-level security architectures and solutions to protect the information assets of the organization. Ensure ongoing analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and market trends. Ensure that security architecture policies, standards, and security engineering and operations procedures are available and enacted consistently across projects and programs.
Deliver Information Security, Risk Assessment And Data Security Capabilities:
Embed and deliver effective security and control practices to protect company information assets.
Lead, respond to and resolve security exposures and incidents, observing proper forensic, legal & privacy procedures.
Oversee selection & execution of vendors to perform penetration assessments and remediation
Establish a vendor risk assessment framework
Establish and execute M&A due diligence and secure integration assessments and architectures
Develop a data security program, partner with Legal/Privacy and business to identify/classify data to implement appropriate controls to monitor for data loss
Security Operations:
Oversee the projects that determine scope, funding, and timelines for deploying security capabilities prioritized against the NIST risk weighting factors and risk register entries.
Manage data leak protection detection and malicious software detection/response.
Provide direction, support and in-house consulting for new and existing vendor risk profiles, Software Development Life Cycle, vulnerability scanning, and secure coding methods.
Job Requirements
Professional Experience/Qualifications
10+ years of progressive experience in tech and information security, including experience with cloud, network, security operations, security architecture, DevOps, and audit / compliance
Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline, master’s degree preferred.
Current and valid security certification such as CISM, CISA, CRISC or CISSP, strongly preferred.
Strong analytical, consultative, and problem-solving skills / business judgment
Exceptional communications with both technical and non-technical leadership, frontline employees, and senior executives including Board of Director presentation experience
Location: Union Beach, NJ or New York, NY
IFF is a global leader in Health & Biosciences, Food & Beverages and Home & Personal care products, offering our customers a broad range of solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more.