Global Director, Cyber Threat, Engineering and Operations

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Information Technology & Digital

In IT&D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About the role

The Global Director of Cyber Threat, Engineering & Operations is a leadership role responsible for overseeing all aspects of Cyber Security Operations. Reporting directly to the VP – Global Cyber Security, this role sits on the Cyber Leadership Team alongside Cyber Strategy and Risk, Architecture, Assurance, Human Threat and Identity & Access Management. The Director will lead a global team to ensure the proactive identification, detection, response, and recovery from cyber threats while continuously improving operational security capabilities.

Your responsibilities

Security Operations & Incident Response

• Lead and mature the Global Security Operations Center (SOC), ensuring effective monitoring, detection, and response to cyber threats 24/7.
• Oversee threat intelligence, threat hunting, and forensic investigations to proactively identify and mitigate emerging threats.
• Develop and implement incident response plans, ensuring rapid and effective containment, eradication, and recovery from security incidents.
• Drive automation and orchestration in incident response to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Vulnerability & Threat Management

• Manage and enhance the vulnerability management program, ensuring continuous scanning, assessment, and remediation of security vulnerabilities across IT and OT environments.
• Partner with Cyber Assurance function to lead red team/blue team exercises to test and improve security defenses.

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Security Engineering & Technology Operations

• Own the design, implementation, and operation of security tools and technologies, including SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOAR, IDS/IPS, and cloud security controls.
• Collaborate with Cloud, and DevOps teams to embed security into infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure security logging, monitoring, and analytics capabilities are effective and scalable across cloud and on-premise environments.

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide strategic direction for security operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and cyber risk appetite.
• Develop and manage budgets, resources, and performance metrics for security operations.

The experience we're looking for

• 10+ years of experience in Cyber Security, with at least 5 years in a senior security operations leadership role.
• Strong expertise in security operations, incident response, and threat management in a global enterprise.
• Experience leading a Security Operations Center (SOC), including managing outsourced and in-house teams.
• Deep technical knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat intelligence, cloud security (Azure, GCP, AWS), and network security.
• Proven experience with cyber defense strategies, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and security frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS).
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Industry certifications

The skills for success

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

At Reckitt, we recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. Come and join a team whose purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.

All qualified applicants to Reckitt will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.