Information Security Lead, Africa

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

**JOB POSITION: Information Security Lead, Africa**

**SCOPE: Africa**

**Location: Open**

**BUSINESS MAIN JOB PURPOSE**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home, and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 3.4 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum, and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose as Unilever is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

At Unilever, we’re determined to achieve a culture where everyone can thrive, a culture where all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, and where their uniqueness is celebrated. We’re taking a holistic approach that focuses on how we can use the scale and reach of our business to have the greatest impact in our own workplace and beyond. We’ve set clear goals to eliminate any bias and discrimination in our policies and practices, accelerate diverse representation in our leadership, and remove barriers for people with disabilities. At the same time, we’re setting out to spend more with diverse businesses and increasing representation of diverse groups in our advertising. Find out more about our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion on our website.

Unilever’s Cyber Security organization is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for protecting the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of our Information and Operations. Our Cyber Security organization runs a 24x7 Security Operations Centre (SOC), oversees a robust Security Architecture and associated technology landscape, provides Cyber Security Solution Engineering and Risk Advisory to our business, and assesses the security of our vast technology estate, including factories, to name but a few areas. Cyber Security sits as part of the Business Operations organisations, as a peer to Unilever’s Technology and Data functions and the broad Supply Chain agenda. Cyber Security is tasked with elevating, reporting on and influencing enterprise cyber security risk mitigation across Unilever. The Cyber Security function is made up of the Governance, Risk, Assurance, and Compliance (GRAC) team, the Tech & Ops team, the BISO teams, and the Office of the CISO.

**Role Purpose**:
**Role Summary**:
**Key areas under this role delivered by the ISL team include**:

- Cyber security solution engineering and risk advisory across Unilever businesses, assuring appropriate risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting.
- Ensuring the deployment and running of security tooling in Africa, in conjunction with the Tech & Ops team.
- Ensuring the Security Operations Centers (SOC) have full visibility across the ecosystem and actively participate in incident response at the direction of the Head of Incident Response.
- Developing and delivering risk reports for Africa.
- Tailoring cyber training and awareness in Africa in alignment and partnership with the Cyber Training and Awareness Lead.
- Leading cyber cultural transformation across Africa in line with our Security Strategy and Transformation program.
- Maintaining and effectively directing the timely closure of security exceptions in businesses while reporting status to the Governance, Risk, Assurance and Compliance (GRAC) team.
- Providing standards and controls feedback, based on local implementation requirements to the GRAC team to help shape global policies and standards.
- Partner with the BISO for Supply Chain and BISO for R&D to ensure appropriate cyber risk mitigation for those functional areas within their region of responsibility.
- Testing business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) in the region.

**Main Accountabilities**
- Responsible for cyber security solution engineering and advisory across Unilever businesses in Africa.
- Responsible for ensuring SOC visibility across Africa.
- Responsible for cyber risk reporting within Africa to the CISO and to the business leaders.
- Responsible for tailoring and delivering cyber training and awareness across Africa.
- Responsible for encouraging and leading the cyber champions network participation across Africa.
- Responsible for leading cyber cultural transformation efforts across Africa.
- Responsible for maintaining and effectively directing timely closure of security exceptions in businesses across Africa.
- Responsible for providing standards and controls feedback based on local implementation requirements/restrictions in order to refine global policies, standards and controls requirements.
- Partner with corporate audit for planned cyber security audit review across their region of responsibility.
- Identify, categorize and risk assess third parties for cyber security implication



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