Global Security Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager; Remote

The Global Security GRC Manager is a senior program leader responsible for driving and sustaining governance, risk, and compliance across engineering, manufacturing, and corporate environments. Reporting to the CISO, this role leads a team of GRC professionals and owns the execution of major cross-functional initiatives like CMMC maturity, vendor risk, data protection, business continuity, and security culture. This leader operationalizes GRC strategy, ensuring controls are embedded across sites and supply chains in a manner that enables production uptime, engineering velocity, and customer confidence.

Program Ownership & Leadership

• Lead enterprise-wide IT execution of CMMC and other compliance program life cycles, including scope definition, SSP/POA&M, evidence quality and refresh cadence, assessor coordination, corrective action closure, and site-level readiness
• Directly manage and develop a GRC team while coordinating control owners through a global matrix model
• Translate policy and strategic objectives into repeatable, standardized processes across plants, engineering teams, and corporate functions
• Drive remediation programs and create transparency into readiness, progress, and risk
• Mentor, prioritize workload, develop capability, and foster global collaboration
• Promote a supportive, performance-oriented culture of velocity, integrity, and teamwork
• Own preparation and participation in customer and third-party audits and security questionnaires
• Leverage AI technologies to reduce manual effort required to sustain the GRC program
• Maintain a business-impact view of risk, track remediation commitments, and elevate gaps to leadership
• Coordinate evidence, drive findings closure, establish sustainable corrective action plans

Security Culture

• Champion a global security culture in which we foster accountability and risk ownership
• Translate complex regulatory topics into clear expectations for employees
• Partner with HR and related stakeholders to deliver targeted training, awareness, and role-based education

Global Vendor Risk Management

• Manage the end-to-end vendor security risk lifecycle: assessments, risk treatment, remediation, and ongoing monitoring
• Operate supplier security expectations in partnership with key stakeholders
• Escalate systemic vendor risk trends and recommend course corrections to leadership

Data Protection

• Govern data protection requirements for IP, manufacturing processes, export-controlled data, and cloud workloads
• Validate consistent application of classification, DLP, access control, and retention standards

Business Continuity & Resilience

• Govern security and compliance aspects of BC/DR readiness across manufacturing, engineering, and corporate environments
• Define resilience-control requirements; validate that recovery playbooks, exercises, and evidence meet applicable regulatory, customer, and risk management obligations
• Partner with accountable technology and business service owners to verify timely closure of identified gaps

• Minimum of 7 years of IT GRC, information security, or regulated compliance experience, preferably with 2 years managing a geographically diverse team
• Demonstrated ability to use generative AI and automation responsibly to improve analysis, evidence operations, knowledge management, and workflow efficiency; experience evaluating AI risk and governance preferred
• Defense experience strongly preferred

• Demonstrated experience with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, and/or DFARS readiness and audit execution
• Strong oral and written communicator who can lead cultural changes, influence people and provide technical strategic direction
• Demonstrated problem solving and organizational skills; ability to work multiple programs at one time
• CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, GRCP, CGRC, GSLC, PMP or other relevant certification preferred

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent experience

This job position may include access to controlled information or technology subject to U.S. export control laws. If an applicant does not meet the definition of a "U.S. Person" (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, and those granted U.S. asylum or refugee status), the Company may be required to obtain an export control license. If the position for which you applied involves access to controlled information or technology subject to U.S. export control laws, then any offer is also contingent on verification of appropriate documentation for the…