Technology Risk Officer (Cybersecurity & IT Risk Management)

In a nutshell

As a Senior Technology Risk Officer you will play a vital role in ensuring the robustness of our IT security controls. In addition to your primary focus youll have the opportunity to engage in various projects such as Phishing campaigns and IT Risk Resilience tests as part of your daily responsibilities.  

This role will require the person to be able to travel throughout Europe up to 12% of the time

Where will you be based and what business will you support

Joining one of our teams in Barcelona - the Group Assets and Risks department- you will be  at the forefront of managing risks associated with IT Management Infrastructure Operations Development Cyber and Information Security activities in the EMEA region.

How can you help us 

Your primary area of expertise will be to contribute to central and local IT Risk Assessments and provide recommendations to the Business Leaders by:

• Independently designing planning and conducted projects related to different areas of Teams activity.
• Executing IT risk and audit assessments in accordance with professional standards at all levels of the Eurofins Organisation: Central Services Regional Infrastructure Laboratories within the assigned region and making relevant recommendations to initiate risk reduction.
• Supporting the development of internal IT risk assessment methodologies and improve the existing ones.
• Producing clear and high- quality technical and non-technical reports to formally communicate results to the management.
• Conducting following up activities related to the implementation of agreed action plans in aim to mitigate the identified IT risk.
• Maintaining professional relationship with internal stakeholders and partners (IT and business).

Qualifications :

Are you our kind of extraordinary

Personal skills:

• This position requires an independent and structured candidate with self-confidence and negotiation skills with an ability to challenge established processes and ease to manage multiple priorities and ambiguity in a rapidly moving business environment.
• Strong Emotional Intelligence with demonstrated leadership in a large organization involving multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills interpersonal and collaborative skills and the ability to communicate information security and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences in English.
• International profile open to frequent business travels.

 Technical Skills:

• 1.5 - 5 years experience in performing roles in Cybersecurity Information security and/or in related IT Control Functions.  
• Very good knowledge and understanding of Risk Management and/or IT Audit processes.
• Broad experience with IT processes IT development and/or cyber/information security controls.
• A strong technical background in cybersecurity/information technology to ensure the achievement of business outcomes where the business process is dependent on technology.
• Basic technical understanding of network infrastructure design firewalls IDS/IPS SIEM/SOAR.
• Ideally knowledge/experience in UK/EU Data Protection Regulations NIS2 Directive and other relevant regulations.

Education and/or Experience:

• Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business or other relevant field.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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Find out more on our Careers page: description: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 our environment safer healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink to the medicines you rely on Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food environment pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology forensics advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics and in the support of clinical studies as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to ca. 63000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time