Director of Cyber Defence and Operations
2 days ago
Join to apply for the Director of Cyber Defence and Operations role at QBE Insurance
The opportunity
Influential senior cyber role; shape and deliver high-impact security initiatives. International remit supporting QBE's global operations. It's Our Moment and Yours Too.
Your new role
As Director of Cyber Defence & Operations, you will lead the strategic direction and operational execution of enterprise-wide cybersecurity initiatives. This role is critical in safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of QBE's information assets, ensuring resilience against evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
Reporting to QBE's Chief Digital Security & Resilience Officer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining a robust cyber defence capability, driving awareness and engagement across the business, and securing investment for key initiatives. The role requires strong stakeholder engagement, strategic foresight, a deep understanding of global security frameworks, and leadership skills to lead a geographically dispersed team.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of QBE's Enterprise Information Risk & Security Strategy.
- Oversee delivery of enterprise technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with budget, timelines, and quality standards.
- Manage and investigate security incidents, ensuring timely and effective resolution.
- Build strong relationships with QBE's global business units to ensure expectations around service delivery are met.
- Provide consultancy on information security projects and coordinate risk and compliance requirements.
- Oversee the Security Operations Centre (SOC) to ensure efficient detection, analysis, and response to cybersecurity threats.
- Implement and manage data protection strategies to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or loss of sensitive information.
- Manage vendor relationships, ensuring SLAs are met and KPIs tracked.
- Conduct regular vulnerability assessments across QBE's internal and third-party environments.
About You
This is an opportunity for a highly experienced cyber security professional who has ideally worked at the CISO level, or led cyber operations within major global matrixed organisations. You will have worked in regulated environments, ideally financial services.
Ideal skills and experience include
- Experience with security and risk frameworks such as ISO27001, ISO31000, NIST800, and PCI-DSS.
- Proven track record in a senior information security role.
- Global experience highly regarded.
- Experience working with outsourced service providers.
- Tertiary qualification or extensive equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills to build effective relationships with QBE's divisions.
About QBE
We're an international insurer building momentum towards becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. Our people are at the centre of our success, and we're proud to work together to enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than 13,000 people across 27 countries, we're big enough to make an impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace.
Benefits
- Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance work/life balance
- Life Leave, supporting life events while preserving annual leave
- Wellbeing coaching, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for new parents, including paid super
- Voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services
Apply now
APPLY NOW and let's make it happen. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.
QBE recognises the value of diverse perspectives and experience. If we can provide support with access requirements or alternative work arrangements, please contact recruitment@qbe.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and complies with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
Additional information
Seniority level: Director
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Management and Manufacturing
Industries: Insurance
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