Requisition Number: 29712
Job Summary:The Cybersecurity Operations Project Lead supports the Global Information Security Group (GISG) by managing the financial, vendor, and operational infrastructure that enables the security program to function efficiently and with full transparency to leadership. This role serves as the operational backbone of the GISG, ensuring that budget integrity, vendor accountability, program reporting, and process sustainability are maintained across all business units.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:Vendor Engagement
- Establishes and manages a structured vendor engagement model, including business review cadences, open item tracking, and new engagement and renewal workflows.
- Partners with Procurement to ensure timely execution of contracts, renewals, and new engagements across all business units.
- Maintains visibility into contract terms, renewal timelines, and vendor performance outcomes.
Process Development
Develops and maintains standard operating procedures for budget management, BU new
- engagements, renewal expenses, and the IT overspend process.
- Supports GISG people leaders in maintaining budget alignment and fiscal year cost accuracy.
- Identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiency and reduce dependencies through documentation and process standardization.
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Serves as a consistent point of coordination between GISG leadership, Finance, Procurement, and BU IT Financial contacts.
- Tracks action items and decisions emerging from vendor and leadership engagements through to resolution.
Operational Reporting & Program Coordination
- Compiles and distributes the GISG weekly status report and prepares the monthly cybersecurity project status deck for leadership.
- Coordinates the annual cyber insurance renewal process, including data gathering, questionnaire complain, and liaison with Information Technology and Risk Insurance.
- Maintains a centralized document inventory for GISG operational records and procedures.
Financial Management
- Owns the GISG non-payroll cybersecurity budget across all business units, including expense tracking, BU-level allocations, purchase order and invoice oversight, and timely payment
- coordination.
- Develops and maintains budget reporting aligned to the NIST CSF 2.0 framework, produces monthly financial status updates for GISG leadership, and delivers quarterly spend-vs-budget metrics.
- Leads the annual budget planning cycle in partnership with FP&A and BU IT Financial contacts.
What you'll need:
Knowledge & Skills- Working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, particularly NIST CSF, sufficient to align budget and operational reporting to framework domains.
- Proficiency in financial tracking, purchase order management, and budget forecasting.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and drive items to completion with minimal oversight.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Familiarity with procurement and financial systems.
- Experience coordinating cyber insurance renewals or similar risk financing processes is a plus.
Education- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Information Technology, Finance, or a related field required. Relevant professional certifications or equivalent experience will be considered.
- Minimum five years of experience in project management, business operations, or a program coordination role, preferably within an information technology or cybersecurity environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, coordinating vendor relationships, and producing executive-level reporting.
- Experience working within a matrixed, multi-business unit organization strongly preferred.
