Lead Cyber Specialist, Vulnerability Management

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About The Job

The Cyber Security Testing and Vulnerability Management team will be responsible for the delivery of vulnerability assessment and management services right across the Kantar business.

This role will provide cyber security leadership, subject matter expertise, oversight and coordination of vulnerability management across Kantar, leading a team of internal and external resources that will help identify technical vulnerabilities so that these can be remediated or mitigated to prevent adversaries from exploiting them. This plays a pivotal role in protecting the Kantar's business operations, our clients and employees' data and the organizations intellectual property.

The role requires a high level of stakeholder management and assessment coordination and requires excellent client facing skills and able to interact and communicate with penetration testers and vulnerability management analysts on a highly technical level.

The role will contribute to and work as part of a global multi-disciplined security community with clear vision and direction, and top down support across the business.

Job Goals

• Ownership of the global vulnerability management (VM) framework, standards and procedures.
• Direct and lead effective security testing and technical vulnerability management services across Kantar, covering people, process and technology need.
• Lead and direct internal and external resources used to deliver these services across the business. Develop a long-term VM strategy to enable Kantar to fully understand its exposure to technical vulnerability right across the enterprise, aiding effective and risk-prioritised decision making.
• Management and ownership of vulnerability scanning and penetration test tools used within the enterprise, working in conjunction with the engineering and architecture function.
• Build and deliver dashboarding and reporting capabilities to allow for prioritisation and risks to be identified and actioned. This may include topics such as lateral risk, obsolescence and privileged access.
• Provide status reports trelated to vulnerability tracking metrics, key risk indicators, trending, and remediation state.
• Undertake gap analysis of patch and security levels relating to specific threats and internal systems – for example in response to zero-day vulnerabilities identified by the Cyber Threat Intelligence function.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Experience of using and managing vulnerability management technologies and service providers – eg. Qualys, Microsoft Defender
• Good understanding of current cyber-attack tools, techniques and procedures
• Proven track record of managing cyber security outsourced services and relationships
• Successful delivery of quantifiable insight of vulnerability risk and knowledge of security metrics and management information
• Experience of budgetary management and people leadership
• Understanding of the organisational digital and organisational attack surface together with external attack surface management tools and techniques

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We're not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you've got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You'll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We're undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients' needs faster and more efficiently – and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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