Global Head - Cyber Resilience

Help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Join us for career defining opportunities that give you the chance to thrive.

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

About the Function

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster. Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

Requirements of the role

• Translate ‘cyber’ into business risk by raising our readiness to detect, prevent and respond given a range of cyber events (incidents).
• Identify the scope of critical assets and operations required to sustain a minimum viable Diageo if subjected to a serious breach/attack.
• Deliver measured end to end cyber readiness controls – regularly test and improve effectiveness of our response using drills and exercises.
• Own, implement and maintain Breach Response and Incident Response plan including critical suppliers/vendors.
• Embed Security and Resilience into our operating model by design.
• Create executive visibility, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen our cyber culture – going from users being weakest link to cyber advocates.

What success looks like

• Limit material business disruption from cyber events.
• Top risks understood, prioritised, and actively reduced.
• Detection and response fast, automated and predictable.
• Execs are clear, actionable visibility of cyber and resilience.
• Clear, impactful communication at all levels of management and Executive.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• 7-10 + years of experience in handling security incident and breach response, with 15+ years of experience in cyber security domain.
• Substantial experience with information technology systems and processes.
• Experience in large scale, complex post-incident investigations, using techniques such as network forensics, log analysis, timeline creation, and host-based forensics as an incident response handler.
• Good understanding of defense and detection tools and technologies, and their usage in incident response.
• Familiar with forensics software such as EnCase, Helix, XRY and FTK.
• Good understanding of technology domains such as endpoints, compute, cloud and network, and incident response in these areas.
• Ability to think quickly and confident in making decisions in high pressure situations.
• Great problem-solving skills and willing to adapt within emergency situations.
• Good communicator with excellent writing skills.
• Strong human relation skills with proven ability to build strong working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Depth and breadth across all the core bodies of information security knowledge including threat, vulnerability, risk, and controls.

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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