Associate Director, Security Operations

At Genmab, we’re committed to building extra[not]ordinary futures together, by developing antibody products and pioneering, knock-your-socks-off therapies that change the lives of patients and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. From our people who are caring, candid, and impact-driven to our business, which is innovative and rooted in science, we believe that being proudly unique, determined to be our best, and authentic is essential to fulfilling our purpose.

The Role

At Genmab, the Associate Director, Security Operations is a security professional who has a passion for technology and cybersecurity and possesses a broad knowledge and experience in all security operations processes, and innovative security monitoring solutions. This individual understands that detective and reactive security capabilities are key pillars in an organization's cybersecurity strategy and that collaboration with partners like IT Operations and Quality Assurance, an understanding of business requirements, goals, and processes, and critical data flows is important for this role. Additionally, a solid grasp of security events, risks, threats, and attack vectors is crucial. This person combines this knowledge and expertise with a hands-on mentality, team leadership skills, and capabilities in designing and implementing fit-for-purpose solutions, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.

This role is based out of our Copenhagen site, Denmark and is hybrid which means that you are expected to be working from the office 60% of the time.

The primary roles are leading the Security Operations Team of Genmab and owning detective and responsive security processes, such as security incident, vulnerability management, threat intelligence/analysis, and security monitoring. Being the professional team leader (not team members in direct report) requires this person to define and drive toward clear goals and targets while ensuring that the team works efficiently together. This includes defining strategies and roadmaps to strengthen Genmab's security posture in alignment with the Director, Information Security DK, the Information Security, Risk & Compliance team, as well as IT Operations, as part of Genmab's overall cybersecurity strategy.

In addition, the Associate Director, Security Operations will act as the First Point of Contact for Genmab’s Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP). In strong collaboration with the MS(S)Ps, the successful candidate will be responsible for the design, maintenance, and improvement of detective and responsive security capabilities with the help of security monitoring use cases and security incident response playbooks.

Furthermore, this new team member is expected to engage with and support IT business collaborators, projects, and products by taking an active role in defining security monitoring strategies and realizing monitoring needs by, among other things, identifying relevant data flows and critical security events and assisting, together with the Security Operations Team, in the implementation of business rules, triggers, alarms, and similar mechanisms.

An important part of this function will be aligning the performance and execution of security processes and procedures with other IT & Digital teams. The successful candidate will also chair Security Operations Board meetings, in which different operational IT&D groups are represented. Driving improvements and resolving gaps in Genmab's security posture requires strong capabilities in uniting the goals and vision of several teams.

The right candidate must have strong capabilities in leading a team, driving toward results, working independently, taking ownership, and being willing to take acceptable risks.

The Associate Director, Security Operations will report to the Director of Information Security DK.

Key Responsibilities

• Leader of the global Security Operations Team of Genmab
• First Point of Contact towards Genmab’s MSSP and the Genmab’s MSPs Cyber Security Fusion Center
• Owner of operational security processes such as security incident management, vulnerability management, threat management and security monitoring
• Owner of the security monitoring solution, Microsoft Azure Sentinel
• Owner of operational security standards, processes and procedures and process descriptions
• Security Incident Handler (Tier 2)
• Organizing and Execution if security assessments and penetration testing

Requirements (Knowledge & Experience)

• At minimum 8 years of demonstrable work experience in different information security functions including being a team leader; preferred as a leader of a security operations team
• Working experience in multinational organizations
• Excellent knowledge of Information security technologies combined with an insight in threat actors and attack vectors
• Demonstrates a continuous willingness to learn
• Experience in working in/for a biotech or pharmacological company is not a must, but a strong advantage
• Excellent presentation and communication skills and capable to explain (complex) technical security issues in “normal” language to non-technical partners
• Very good communication skills in English as this is Genmab corporate language

Requirements (Personality & Values)

• Strong soft and social skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong consultancy and influence skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, i.e. being able to communicate effectively with different collaborators and to deal with the different interests in the organization
• Excellent planning and organizational skills

About You

• You are passionate about our purpose and genuinely care about our mission to transform the lives of patients through innovative cancer treatment
• You bring rigor and excellence to all that you do. You are a fierce believer in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with diverse backgrounds
• You are determined to do and be your best and take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
• You are not afraid to grapple with the unknown and be innovative
• You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so

Locations

Genmab leverages the effectiveness of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are designed as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our collaboratively designed office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.

About Genmab

Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose guiding its unstoppable team to strive towards improving the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For more than 20 years, its passionate, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and leveraged translational research and data sciences, which has resulted in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators, effector function enhanced antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates. To help develop and deliver novel antibody therapies to patients, Genmab has formed 20+ strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO™) antibody medicines.

Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. and Tokyo, Japan. 

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