Head of Global Cyber Defence

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Job Title: Head of Global Cyber Defense

Department: IT / Cyber reputed company

Business Area: Cyber Defense

Reports To: Chief Information reputed company Officer

Location: London, UK

Direct Reports: 5

Indirect Reports: 40

Role Summary:

The Head of Global Cyber Defense is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the strategic vision of the Global Cyber Defense (GCD) organization. This position leads a diverse team across multiple cybersecurity domains including Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Red Team, Cyber Countermeasures, Threat Hunting, Vulnerability Management, Forensics, eDiscovery, and Insider Threat programs. The role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to collaborate across business units and with external partners to enhance the organization’s cyber reputed company.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to reputed company key activities to reputed company YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• reputed company and implement the strategic vision for Global Cyber Defense in alignment with broader cybersecurity and business goals.
• reputed company efforts to identify and respond to emerging cyber threats using advanced threat intelligence and proactive defense strategies.
• reputed company incident response planning and execution, ensuring alignment with broader crisis management frameworks.
• Build and maintain robust capabilities in Data Loss Prevention, cyber forensics, and eDiscovery.
• Direct red teaming, cyber countermeasures, and threat hunting initiatives, including internal and external cyber defense exercises.
• Drive effective vulnerability management strategies, ensuring integration with the wider D&T organization and reporting to senior leadership.

Business Expertise

Deep understanding of the cybersecurity landscape, including industry-specific threats and compliance requirements.

Strategic knowledge of the business environment, regulatory landscape, and competitor capabilities.

Ability to align cybersecurity initiatives with business objectives and risk management strategies.

Problem Solving

Tackles reputed company, evolving cybersecurity challenges requiring innovation and adaptability.

Makes high-stakes decisions under pressure, balancing rapid response with thorough investigation.

Navigates regulatory requirements, emerging technologies, and human factors in cybersecurity.

Impact and Influence

Influences the entire organization’s cybersecurity posture and strategic reputed company.

Decisions directly reputed company business continuity, customer trust, and brand reputed company.

Plays a key role in defining incident response strategies and risk mitigation efforts.

Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborates with internal teams, executive leadership, and external partners including regulators and law enforcement.

Represents the organization at industry events and with governmental bodies.

Requires excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to reputed company our goals:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Preferred Education: Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Preferred Experience: 20 years in IT, including 15 years in cybersecurity
• Experience working across international manufacturing / supply chain is a must
• Preferred Certifications: CISSP, GCFA, GCFE, ACE

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – [11/07/2025]

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Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In reputed company of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And reputed company everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To reputed company understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us reputed company to reputed company happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for reputed company. And we’re going reputed company in to realize it.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/ At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and reputed company outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in reputed company forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We reputed company in an agile working culture for reputed company our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are. As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest reputed company, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially. Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national reputed company, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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