Director of Cybersecurity and Data Protection

1 week ago


Billerica, Massachusetts, United States Cabot Corporation Full time
About the Role

Cabot Corporation is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Cybersecurity and Data Protection to join our Digital organization. This critical role is ideal for a seasoned professional who can lead our global cyber and data security programs and oversee the overall Information and Data security of the entire organization.

The successful candidate will provide strategic vision, scoping of requirements, design, development, implementation, incident response, budgets, and adherence to all necessary protocols, regulations, and legal requirements. This leader will work closely with leaders across the organization to develop and implement a robust framework and appropriate technology and tools, matching the size and complexity of our organization with security strategy and operations right-sized for our company and the information we safeguard.

The role encompasses all aspects of information security across the enterprise, including:

  • Web and Mobile Application Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Infrastructure and Device Security
  • Security Awareness Training, Policy, and Compliance

The Director of Cybersecurity and Data Protection will be part of the Cabot Digital Leadership team and Manufacturing Security Council and responsible for presenting to Cabot's Board of Directors on a quarterly basis.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and own a multi-year cybersecurity roadmap and key performance indicators focused on reducing cyber risk.
  • Create quarterly, annual, and long-term cyber security and cyber risk management goals, articulate strategies, define metrics, and provide necessary updates to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
  • Lead Security Incident Response, Third Party Information Security Assessment, Data Protection and Encryption, Identity & Access Management, and Privileged User Access to protect customer and employee data.
  • Define cyber security governance and control strategies for emerging technologies such as cloud & containerization, block-chain, and distributed computing.
  • Keep well-informed of developing security threats and proactively create strategies to understand and mitigate potential security problems that might arise from acquisitions or other big business moves.
  • Develop, implement, and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise-wide information security and risk management program.
  • Provide strategic and tactical vision around adversary and threat detection, incident response, and asset fortification.
  • Advise the CDIO, executive leadership, and digital leaders on security issues and threats.
  • Responsibility for overseeing the design, testing, and implementation of all IT Security solutions.
  • Oversight of the day-to-day control of the maintenance and monitoring of live production environments.
  • Strategic planning, leadership, staff development, training, and adherence to all legal, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
  • Definition, scoping, creation, and execution of IT and Data Security strategies enhancing the reliability and security of the IT systems, projects, and underlying data at your organization.
  • Overseeing managers and teams that you are responsible for, allocating resources to ensure that staff deliver secure and robust IT solutions to any of the organization's identified and agreed requirements.
  • Overseeing planning and execution of necessary vulnerability audits, penetration testing, or forensic IT audits and investigations. Ensure that outputs improve organization IT Security.
  • Liaise with senior-level directors, the organization's board, and other key stakeholders, plus managers, programmers, and IT Security risk-assessment staff under your remit.
  • Oversee integration of new IT Systems Development with the organization's overall IT, Data, and Information Security policies.
  • Oversee staff training in all the latest security awareness skills, check associated protocols, methodologies, and procedures are implemented.
  • Ensure compliance with any related legislation, such as the Data Protection Act, ISO standards, or relevant government regulations.
  • Plan budget allocations and associated financial forecasts relating to IT, Data, and Information security.
  • Manage your staff's technical and personal development, new hires, dispute resolution, redundancy, and potentially termination of staff.
  • Liaise with and manage your partners, stakeholders, vendors, and third-party service or solutions providers.
  • Oversee projects, budgets, and resources under your remit with a view to ensuring that your organization gets a favorable return on IT investments in staff, hardware, software, and service providers.
  • GRC/Audit responsibility.
About You

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced professional with a strong background in information security and risk management. The ideal candidate will have:

  • Degree in business administration or a technology-related field required.
  • Relevant professional security management certification(s) required.
  • 8+ years of experience in overseeing information, cyber, and technology security required.
  • Experience in a global manufacturing environment is required.
  • Experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management, including managed services.
  • Specific experience in Agile (scaled) software development or other best-in-class development practices.
  • Experience with Cloud computing/Elastic computing across virtualized environments.
  • In-depth project management skills.
  • Good understanding of all current legislation and regulations pertaining to the organization.
  • Successful track record of effective coordination, prioritization, collaboration, organization, and project delivery.
  • Experience in financial forecasting and budget allocation.
  • Knowledge of relevant IT Security-related hardware, software, and vendor solutions.
  • An overall understanding of the scripting and source code programming languages, such as C#, C++,.NET, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby on Rails, etc.
  • Practical experience of computer operating systems such as MS Windows, UNIX/Linux.
  • Deep thinking analytical mind with the ability to quickly get to the root cause of issues.
  • You will need to be organized, efficient, and able to work unsupervised under your own initiative.
  • Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity.
  • Innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams.

What We Offer

  • Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment - We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
  • Hybrid Work Environment - The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week.
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc. - We offer a competitive package of benefits.
  • Feedback - we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
  • Support - you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.


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