Sr. Director, GRC, IT Controls & Cyber Culture, Orthopedics

About the role

This role serves as a senior cybersecurity leader reporting to the CISO, with enterprise accountability for building, maturing, and operationalizing the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) function across DePuy Synthes.

Responsibilities

• Build and mature the enterprise GRC function, including governance forums, risk management processes, compliance oversight, control monitoring, issue management, and executive reporting.
• Provide leadership and oversight for the BISO manager organization, ensuring consistent engagement with business leaders, effective cyber risk advisory support, and alignment of security priorities to business objectives.
• Lead enterprise cyber risk management activities, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, escalation, and reporting to senior leadership and governance bodies.
• Own the enterprise cybersecurity policy and standards lifecycle - from creation and implementation to continuous review - ensuring clarity, compliance, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Oversee SOX cybersecurity and IT control activities, including implementation, operating effectiveness, evidence readiness, remediation tracking, and partnership with Finance, Internal Audit, External Audit, and IT control owners.
• Establish and operationalize an enterprise IT controls and assurance framework that enables consistent control design, testing, monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement across the organization.
• Lead oversight of external cybersecurity assessments and assurance requests, including cyber insurance questionnaires, ESG-related cybersecurity inputs, customer or partner assessments, and other third-party reviews requiring enterprise cyber risk and control representation.
• Drive cybersecurity compliance with applicable global regulations, standards, and frameworks, ensuring the organization can demonstrate control effectiveness and audit readiness.
• Lead security awareness, behavior, and culture initiatives that improve workforce accountability, reduce human-centric risk, and embed secure practices into day-to-day business operations.
• Lead and develop high-performing cybersecurity leaders and teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.
• Provide executive-level reporting on cybersecurity risk, compliance status, control effectiveness, assurance outcomes, and program maturity to senior leadership and governance bodies.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree (MS, MBA, or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or Business preferred.
• Experience: 12–14 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk management, IT controls, or GRC, including senior leadership roles.
• Skills: Demonstrated experience building or maturing enterprise GRC programs in a regulated, global, or complex operating environment. Experience leading BISO, cyber risk advisory, security governance, or business aligned cybersecurity teams. Deep knowledge of cybersecurity risk management, compliance frameworks, IT controls, SOX control expectations, assurance practices, and audit readiness. Experience overseeing external cybersecurity assessments, including cyber insurance, ESG-related cybersecurity reporting, customer or partner assessments, and third-party assurance requests. Experience building, mentoring, and leading senior level cybersecurity teams. Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk, control gaps, and compliance obligations into business impact.