Security Auditing Program Manager

170+ Years Strong. Industry Leader. Global Impact.At Pinkerton, the mission is to protect our clients. To do this, we provide enterprise risk management services and programs specifically designed for each client. Pinkerton employees are one of our most important assets and critical to the delivery of world-class solutions. Bonded together, we share a commitment to integrity, vigilance, and excellence.

Pinkerton is an inclusive employer who seeks candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join our family of industry subject matter experts.

The Security Auditing Program Manager, assigned to a specific client, will be embedded in a Remote role as part of the client's global security function, which aims to protect, sustain, and enable the business to thrive. The role involves supporting the Security Auditing program and penetration testing to ensure security programs are effective against threats, by simulating attacks on critical systems to identify vulnerabilities and demonstrate potential impacts, thereby enhancing security operations.

• Represent Pinkerton's core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
• Security Auditing resourcing - Acquiring actors with relevant experience on an ad hoc basis for Security Auditing exercises at Client's locations.
• Assist with scenario development and exercise planning and testing at all sites.
• Design the exercise SoW to share with the pre-approved vendors for clear and concise proposal submissions.
• Work with the Global Security's legal team to understand any potential legal issues for localized penetration testing exercises.
• Become an active member of a Global Security Auditing and/or act as Security Auditing  leader where the operational requirements are.
• Managing remediation tracker, which tracks what actions are taken to mitigate vulnerabilities identified during the penetration test exercises.
• Drafting of post exercise reports, including a summary of the exercise, exercise objectives and level of success, vulnerabilities identified, and high-level recommendations.
• Deliver post exercise overview to multi stakeholder audience.
• Support various Security Auditing activities including intelligence gathering, threat assessment, social engineering, covert and overt security testing, and vulnerability assessments.
• Work closely with the remediation team lead to ensure continuity of recommendations and status.
• All other duties, as assigned.

A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required, with a Master's preferred, coupled with over ten years of experience in corporate security management or an equivalent blend of education and experience. Essential expertise includes threat intelligence collection and analysis, stakeholder engagement and management, and proficiency in Black Hat Penetration Testing.

• Possesses a working knowledge of physical security systems and components.
• Understanding of security operations, risk management, and quality management.
• Strong project management skills.
• Serve as a supportive, collaborative, and innovative team member.
• Able to adapt as the external environment and the organization evolves.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, at all organizational levels, and across diverse cultures.
• Able to manage multiple tasks/projects with competing deadlines and priorities.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing, ambiguous, and complex environment.
• Able to appropriately define, prioritize, recommend, and resolve problems.
• Self-starter with the ability to identify tasks/priorities that bring value to the organization.
• Maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.
• Computer skills; Standard software packages.

Working Conditions:

With or without reasonable accommodation, requires the physical and mental capacity to effectively perform all essential functions;

• Regular computer usage.
• Occasional reaching and lifting of small objects and operating office equipment.
• Frequent sitting, standing, and/or walking. 
• Travel, as required.

Pinkerton is an equal opportunity employer to all applicants and positions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital/prenatal status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, religion, creed, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any protected status by local, state, federal or country-specific law.