Director, IT Security - Strategic Security Services
The Director, Strategic Security Services is accountable for planning and allocating resources, work with finance team on budgets, monitoring, tracking, and management of delivery progress, and keeping stakeholders informed throughout the project lifecycle.
S)he will bring to this organization thought leadership and vision in guiding global business, IT process owners towards continuous improvement by establishing governance on program / project management practices.
Also, along with providing the strategic program oversight of the Global Information Services programs, this role will also provide financial oversight, managing partner relationships, and strategic development of Demand and Intake function within the global information security organization.
Strategic Leadership and Engagement
- Support Global Information Security team in creating and implementing the global security strategy and alignment with GBS IT stakeholders, business units, and partners.
- Create and deliver compelling GIS presentations for WK executives, other senior leaders, and customers.
- Manage and coordinate the information security technology risk assessments, operational vendor relationship management (not individual activity per vendor), project manage product selections and work with vendor management on negotiation of contracts for the assigned division or business units.
- Work with divisional management to develop long term strategy, annual security plans with corresponding costs, and tactical plans to reduce the IT risk.
- Facilitate the tracking and reporting on divisional and business units’ metrics, results, data modelling, processing, calculating and transformation into meaningful insights and reports.
- Manage the development, maintenance, and monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Balancing customer experience in mind and WK Security risk and posture
Strategic Program Management
- Lead the group of GIS Project Managers to work on different aspects of GIS projects and monitor progress and adjust as needed.
- Accountable for managing and coordinating the information security projects and business as usual efforts
- Accountable for the successful delivery of the GIS programs and execution of aspects of project life cycle
- Build trusted relationships with internal and external (GBS, Divisions / BU) stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Interface with GBS IT PMO around demand and intake process, annual program initiative planning with GIS, GBS IT and divisions.
- Contribute to enhance the application-based security while working with different applications and business owners.
Policy and Exception management
Establish strong technical leadership to lead and evolve the Wolters Kluwer Policy Management , Standards, and Exception management to keep pace with technology evolution and complexities of cybersecurity, AI, and Information Technology landscape.
GIS Demand, Intake and Resource Management
- Lead and mature GIS Demand and Intake function to organize and manage GIS programs / projects.
- Leverage best practices, lessons learned and emerging trends to develop actionable roadmaps that will allow the GIS to implement program / project capability improvements in accordance with desired outcomes.
- Working with functional leaders ensure resource availability and allocation to required projects to reach objectives and help the functional leaders in managing resources in an effective and efficient manner.
- Oversee optimization of resource pools (project-based versus dedicated role based) and how it aligns to GIS needs.
- Manage ClickTime data tracking and developing meaningful actionable reports, as needed.
- Assist in the development of business cases while working with the associated leaders.
- Training and Coaching
- Help with the development and compliance of GIS training programs and identifying external training courses.
- Provide end user training, application security training, customize training like FedRamp, PCI, NIST, SOC2, etc.
- Lead internal development sessions such as GIS IT security power hours, IR tabletops, and help organize October cyber security month.
Senior executive presentation and communication skills Familiarity with lean and agile development processes Strategic visionary - able to connect the dots with an ITGC and risk to IT environment in moving from forward thinking to seeing around the corner.
Executive level written and oral communication skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate and influence. Communicate complex problems to other people in a simple way that they will understand and work together to alleviate the general IT risk.
Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with and manage relationships with all levels of employees and leaders throughout the Company.
Demonstrated ability to get positive results through influence, persuasion, leadership, presentations, training, and group facilitation skills.
Ability to balance organizational short-term and long-term objectives. Maintain continuous improvement mindset to improve GIS strategy while taking feedback from customers / leaders.
Proactively seek opportunities to provide additional GIS value to its customers.
Represent Wolters Kluwer within the industry by developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of Wolters Kluwer products, industry trends and general business and financial acumen through various sources and initiative.
Communicate Wolters Kluwer competitive advantage to customers in a compelling articulate manner in speech, writing and formal presentation.
Compensation :
Target salary range CA, CT, CO, NY, WA : : $194,800-$275,650
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