Global Head - Cyber Resilience

Overview

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.

Job Description

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.

About The Team: 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.

Responsibilities:

• Translate ‘cyber’ into business risk by raising our readiness to detect, prevent and respond to 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 end-to-end cyber readiness controls; regularly test and improve the effectiveness of our response using drills and exercises.
• Own, implement and maintain Breach Response and Incident Response plans including critical suppliers/vendors.
• Embed Security and Resilience into our operating model by design.
• Create executive visibility, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strategic ownership, cross-functional influence, continuous improvement, and strengthening our cyber culture.

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.
• Executives have clear, actionable visibility of cyber and resilience.
• Clear, impactful communication at all levels of management and Executive leadership.

Qualifications And Experience Required:

• 7–10+ years of experience in handling security incidents and breach response, with 15+ years of overall cyber security experience.
• 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.
• 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 make decisions in high-pressure situations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in emergency situations.
• Good communicator with excellent writing skills and strong interpersonal abilities.
• Depth and breadth across core 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.

Rewards & Diversity Statements: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense and create an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued and that they can belong. We welcome and celebrate 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 to transform our business and help shape the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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Worker Type: Regular

Primary Location: 1HQ

Additional Locations: Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Job Posting Start Date: 2026-04-21