Senior Director Security

RWS is seeking a  Senior Director Security to lead the protection of our global IT and digital assets. In this pivotal role, you will shape and execute our cybersecurity vision, proactively defending against emerging threats while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a complex, international technology landscape, working at the forefront of innovation and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Set security standards and policies based on risk and regulation
• Provide tools and guidance to wider business
• Monitor compliance and report on gaps
• Prevent threats via secure access, encryption, and controls
• Detect issues through logging, monitoring and alerting
• Implement procedures for continuous improvement with a no-blame culture
• Define non-functional requirements (e.g. SLAs, uptime, performance)
• Monitor and analyse metrics to increase each performance, iterate on vision, roadmaps and provide insights to senior leadership
• Oversee budget allocation, optimising resource utilization for maximum ROI
• Deliver accurate forecasting, performance reporting and strategic insights to senior leadership and take responsibility for weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting
• Respond to incidents quickly and effectively
• Ensure compliance with company policies and regional regulations, mitigating potential risks
• Identify and mitigate risks proactively
• Lead and develop to achieve targets and foster professional growth
• Recruit, train, and/or develop the department to facilitate long term success for RWS
• Lead divisional succession planning
• Coach and mentor team members to deliver excellence levels of service
• Define and execute staffing and cross-training plans using forecasting data.
• Conduct performance reviews, manage team performance, and support career development

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Significant experience in IT Security at Director level
• Current security certifications, including CISSP, CISA or CISM are highly desired
• Deep knowledge and experience with transformational services, digital solutions or enterprise platforms
• Demonstrated commercial acumen including cost management and data-driven decision making and execution
• Proven experience in senior leadership role within a global business
• Ability to demonstrate a rich blend of analytical, creative and strategic problem-solving talents
• Take advantage of possible opportunities that can advance the company
• Possess a high degree of professional and personal integrity
• Ability to lead effectively in an unified direction
• Experience inspiring, leading and developing teams including cross-functional teams
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise relationships across regions and business units
• Expertise in strategic and tactical planning, financial management, and leading a department
• Outstanding customer and partner facing communication skills
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills

Desirable:

• Experience of or able to rapidly acquire ability to navigate complex global and matrix managed environments
• Excellence in complex change management

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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