Senior Manager – Information Security

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in AgroScience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997.

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture, and we offer fulfilling careers.

POSITION TITLE:  Senior Manager Information Security 

REPORTING TO:                            Head of Security Operation Centre

REPORTING LOCATION:              Katowice

WORKING LOCATION:                 India / Bangalore

SUMMARY OF ROLE AND OBJECTIVES: (maximum 500 characters (not including spaces) for short position posting and introduction of posting on Eurofins website and career portals)

Senior Manager Information Security is part of the Information Security & SOC management team, providing technical guidance and people leadership to team members and streamlining the delivery of the security services to internal customers.

ROLE & OBJECTIVES: (maximum 1000 characters (not including spaces) for posting on Eurofins website and career portals):

Specific Assignments:

The main responsibilities:

• Define, prepare and manage the deployment of the strategic security initiatives in the organization, as part of the larger information security management team.
• Work on increasing the maturity of the various functions of the security operation center department.
• Act as point of escalation for the internal customers of the information security team.
• Act as delegated sponsor of some of the global security initiatives.
• Deputize for the head of the department as well as other members of the security management team, when relevant.
• Participate in non-security projects as a security SME & SPOC, ensuring alignment of these initiatives with overall security strategy.
• Support the development and review of the security policies.
• Provide management oversight for internally run initiatives and teams. Collaborate closely with managers of security architecture, operational teams in the SOC as well as the security reporting team to improve & adapt the delivery of the teams to the internal customer demands.

Other Assignments:

• Build and maintain stakeholder/client relationships both internally and externally;
• Prepare and publish reporting to IT Management.
• Support the budgeting process for a 100 FTEs security operations department.
• Support the group head of information security and head of SOC in other daily duties;

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: (maximum 500 characters (not including spaces) for short position posting and for posting on Eurofins website and career portals)

Minimum of 5 years of professional consulting or enterprise experience as an information security manager or department head

Required

• • Overall excellent understanding of security functions, architectures, challenges.
  • Solid 8+ years enterprise information security experience (preferably in a variety of security roles).
  • Prior Big4 or strategic consulting experience is a must.
  • Practical experience in project management, preferable in information security.
  • Working on numerous tasks simultaneously and manage a heavy workload.
  • Excellent reporting skills.
  • Managing conflicting priorities whilst managing stakeholders at different seniority levels.
  • People management track record.
  • Leading and managing high severity security incidents.
  • Prior SOC or Incident Response experience mandatory.
  • Hands on knowledge at least of some SOC tools is mandatory.

Personal profile

• Very good communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing).
• Very good interpersonal relation skills at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a complex international environment.
• Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities.

• B. Tech or M. Tech or M.Sc. or comparable education.
• Languages: fluent English.