Director, Information Security

Position Summary

Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization – we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team.

Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

The Director of Information Security leads Energizer Holdings’ (EHI) global information security program, setting the strategic vision and overseeing execution to protect the company’s digital assets. This role ensures EHI’s security capabilities meet current and future business needs through robust leadership, planning and operational excellence.

This critical leadership role within the Information Technology department manages the information security team, fosters trusted partnerships across global IT and business functions, and collaborates closely with technical partners and executive stakeholders to drive security policy, risk management practices, incident response, and compliance of the information security program across the enterprise.

This highly collaborative position requires exceptional communication skills, technical expertise, and leadership presence to engage senior leaders on EHI’s security posture, emerging threats, security effectiveness through established performance metrics, and strategic security priorities. Additionally, this role collaborates across functions to embed security processes, implement security solutions and strengthen EHI’s overall security resilience.

• Security Program Leadership
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  Own and execute EHI’s evolving information security strategy. This includes leading the creation and implementation of comprehensive and scalable security policies, standards, procedures and programs that protect EHI’s information systems and digital assets from security threats, manage security risks, and align with business goals and future capabilities.
• Governance & Compliance
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  Ensure adherence to relevant legal, regulatory, and corporate policies related to security and risk management (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, NIS2), partnering with Legal, Compliance, Audit and IT Leaders to maintain comprehensive risk management policies that include cyber‑risk appetite statements and assessment processes.
• Risk Assessment & Management
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  Oversee enterprise risk assessments and maintain the security risk register. This includes evaluating emerging threats and vulnerabilities, designing and executing mitigation strategies, proactively detecting technology threats and managing incident response protocols to enhance EHI’s security posture.
• Monitoring & Reporting
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  Establish metrics and dashboards to track the effectiveness of security controls, and report security risks and business impacts to executive leadership to ensure transparency of EHI's security posture.
• Leadership Engagement & Collaboration
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  Partner with IT and Business leaders to assess security risks, understand business needs, and ensure security initiatives support business goals. This includes communicating complex security risks in accessible business language, enabling informed decision‑making.
• Security Operations
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  Oversee Security Operations Centers (SOC) and lead security service delivery, incident response, monitoring, detection and management of defense systems (e.g., firewalls, SIEM, endpoint protection). This includes leading enterprise security awareness initiatives and annual tabletop exercises with leaders.
• Technology Management
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  Lead the evaluation of emerging security technologies, manage security systems, and integrate security into the IT environment. This includes guiding the continuous improvement of information security programs based on assessments, audit outcomes, threat trends and other optimization and simplification opportunities.
• Team Leadership
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  Lead and develop the information…