A&D Post-Close Security Director

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The Director, Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) Acquisitions & Divestitures (A&D) Cybersecurity, Post-Close, serves as the strategic leader responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the enterprise cybersecurity approach for post-close acquisitions, divestitures, licensing arrangements, separations, integrations, minority investments, and strategic partnerships. This role provides executive leadership and oversight for post-close mobilization, Day 1 stabilization, transition governance, risk remediation, integration and separation execution, TSA delivery and exit, and ongoing portfolio performance.

The Director applies comprehensive regulatory and compliance insight together with broad technical expertise across cybersecurity and enterprise technology to troubleshoot complex delivery issues, challenge proposed solutions, make key risk-informed decisions, and preserve security-by-design principles throughout integration and separation. The Director partners closely with Corporate Development, Legal, Privacy, Finance, Technology Services, ISRM capability and policy owners, business technology leaders, IMO/SMO teams, transaction sponsors, and senior executives to ensure enterprise policy requirements are reflected in technical solutions, transition decisions, integration and separation plans, and approved exception handling.

• Strategic Leadership, Policy Alignment & Governance:
  Define post-close cybersecurity strategy, governance, standards, operating rhythms, decision rights, and escalation paths. Partner with key ISRM policy, capability, architecture, risk, and control stakeholders to ensure enterprise requirements are embedded in integration and separation plans, technical designs, transition decisions, and approved exception processes.
• Post-Close Mobilization & Day 1 Stabilization:
  Convert deal scope, due diligence findings, Day 1 requirements, regulatory obligations, TSA assumptions, milestones, risks, and dependencies into prioritized execution plans with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Integration, Separation & TSA Execution:
  Provide executive and technical oversight for identity, endpoints, infrastructure, cloud, applications, data protection, monitoring, incident response, third parties, regulatory obligations, and TSA delivery and exit.
• Technical Decision Leadership & Security by Design:
  Troubleshoot complex cybersecurity and technology issues, challenge proposed architectures and exceptions, make key risk-informed decisions, and ensure security-by-design requirements remain intact through transition, integration, separation, and decommissioning.
• Risk Remediation & Control Assurance:
  Ensure findings are prioritized, assigned, evidenced, escalated, and closed or formally accepted, with control validation and reporting that demonstrate progress and residual risk.
• Portfolio & Delivery Management:
  Oversee concurrent deals, work streams, vendors, transition services, budgets,…