Cyber Security Supply Chain Risk Specialist

Description:

The Cyber Security Supply Chain Risk Specialist ensures that third party services across North Central and South America meet Clients business regulatory and security standards. The role partners with Relationship Managers Vendor Management and global security teams to translate global vendor due diligence findings into actionable local mitigations run continuous monitoring programs and lead third party security transformation projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Supply Chain Risk Management

• Review and understand vendor services and define assessment scope using the Clients Vendor Questionnaire.
• Conduct security assessments or work with global team to ensure appropriately scoped assessments are performed; deliver findings in both English and Spanish.
• Evaluate final assessment reports define appropriate risk levels taking into account local control environment (Low/Moderate/Notable High) and develop implementable corrective actions.
• Discuss findings with business lines come to agreement on next steps and formalize action plans in the system of record
• Perform periodic outreach to service providers verifying mitigation steps for current treats and open action plans.

Transformation & Projects

• Understand business priorities key initiatives planned programs and aspirations; collaborate closely with cybersecurity leadership to ensure programs are aligned and communicated
• Lead initiatives and deliverables within information security domain environments
• Lead end to end delivery (design development testing implementation operation and maintenance) of new and existing Third Party and Information Security projects
• Assist in identifying opportunities for automation through data analysis

Operational Efficiency

• Support and promote automation of repetitive and complex data management tasks to improve efficiency across information security functional areas
• Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Data with a firm understanding of how to shape datasets using a mixed environment
• Design maintain and review KPI dashboards that monitor third party risk performance and drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 years in information security or risk management roles including 2 years delivering security projects.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Technical Skills
  • Vendor risk assessment frameworks (NIST CSF ISO 27001 SIG).
  • Proficiency with security questionnaires (SIG CAIQ).
  • Scripting basic competency in PowerShell Python or equivalent.
  • ETL tools (SQL Alteryx Python pandas).
• Fluent written & spoken English and Spanish mandatory (French not required for this role).
• Certifications (desired): CISSP CISA CRISC or Certified Third Party Risk Professional (CTPRP).

Soft Skills:

• Strong written & verbal communication; ability to convey complex security concepts concisely in both languages; excellent stakeholder management; adaptability to shifting priorities; rigorous documentation habits.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience delivering IT products in a banking environment.
• Prior audit experience (internal or external).
• Additional language(s): Portuguese or French.
• Experience with cloud service security (IaaS/PaaS SaaS) assessments.