Information Security Lead Western Europe

Job Title: Information Security Lead Western Europe

Location: Kingston Head Office or Rotterdam, Netherlands

JOB PURPOSE

Role Summary:
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.
- Ensuring the deployment and running of security tooling in Western 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 Western Europe.
- Tailoring cyber training and awareness in Western Europe in alignment and partnership with the Cyber Training and Awareness Lead.
- Leading cyber cultural transformation across Western 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 BISO for 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for cyber security solution engineering and advisory across Unilever businesses in Western Europe.
- Responsible for ensuring SOC visibility across Western Europe.
- Responsible for cyber risk reporting within Western Europe to the CISO and to the business leaders.
- Responsible for tailoring and delivering cyber training and awareness across Western Europe.
- Responsible for encouraging and leading the cyber champions network participation across Western Europe.
- Responsible for leading cyber cultural transformation efforts across Western Europe.
- Responsible for maintaining and effectively directing timely closure of security exceptions in businesses across Western Europe.
- Responsible for providing standards and controls feedback based on local implementation requirements/restrictions in order to refine global policies, standards and controls requirements.
- Partner with corporate audit for planned cyber security audit review across their region of responsibility.
- Identify, categorize and risk assess third parties for cyber security implications across their region of responsibility.

ALL ABOUT YOU

**Skills**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and able to be understood by both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Proven ability to lead and motivate a senior team.
- The ability to lead through accountability with delegated responsibilities.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks.
- Stakeholder management and interpersonal skills at both a technical and non-technical level.
- Outstanding influencing ability.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- Outstanding critical reasoning and problem-solving skills - sticking to the problem until it is resolved.
- Customer-orientated, whether responding to queries or delivering new services.
- Skills in Programme and Project Management.

**Experience**:

- The role holder will have practical experience in Cyber Security.
- Experience of leading major programs across a global organization.
- Experience and proven track record in Cyber Security.
- Experience in providing thought leadership, and driving a complex change agenda, and an ability to challenge the “status quo”.
- Excellent strategic and operational business awareness, with a deep understanding of the key drivers, levers, issues and constraints of digital businesses.
- Experience within a customer focused environment.

Behaviours
- Agility - Flexes leadership style and plans to meet changing situations with urgency. Learns from the past, envisions the future, has a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo.
- Talent Catalyst - Develops and magnifies the power of people. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Investing in people, coaching individuals, and teams to realise their full potential. Continually inspires powerful collaboration.
- Passion for High Performance - Inspires the energy needed to win, generating intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Ma