Senior Specialist, IT Risk Management & Security (ITRMS)

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a global healthcare corporation. Driven by its mission and aspirations, the organization is fully committed to safeguarding public health. This commitment is demonstrated through ongoing endeavors involving the research, development, importation, manufacturing, and distribution of medicines and vaccines. Its parent company is headquartered in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business/IT stakeholders, and guide stakeholders in the compliance of company policies, procedures and external regulations.
• Driving adherence to our company’s System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) policies and processes.
• Performing analysis to determine gaps in the security controls, and providing remediation advisory.
• Prioritize and focus on IT risks that affect the highest priority initiatives in the business areas.
• Providing risk-based input for effective decision making on resource & investment allocations.
• Support a positive culture change through continuous monitoring, awareness, education, partnering with industry standard leaders and promoting best practices.
• Ensuring the divisions create Business Continuity Plans for the most critical systems. 
• Audit support and response guidance.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide risk mitigation programs, processes and technologies focusing effort on identification and mitigation of the highest risks.
• Serves as an expert on IT Security and Compliance policies. Maintains current state awareness and understanding of internal and industry practices relating to IT security & compliance. Knowledgeable of evolving trends, industry citations, etc.
• Elevate IT security awareness in general and targeted audience within the organization, service providers and other vendors.

Requirements

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree. Preferred fields: Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent. 
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Required Experience and Skills:

• Require at least 5-6 years of IT work experience – preferred with cybersecurity and risk management related background.ent related background.
• Language proficiency in Japanese (native-level) and English (business-level) – this role will be interacting with our company’s Japan Business/IT stakeholders in Japanese/English and with global ITRMS teams in English.
• Excellent collaboration skills and communications skills. 
• Ability to collaborate well in a matrix environment and organization.
• Strong interest in and/or understanding of data management, governance and the protection of key business information assets.

Salary

8 - 12 million yen

Location

Tokyo