Sr. Manager Manufacturing Security

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

To ensure the protection of Abbott’s critical operations and support our mission at Abbott “We put the people we serve at the center of everything we do!” we are seeking an experienced leader in Manufacturing Cybersecurity that has worked for (or with) large global manufacturing organizations. This position will report to the Senior Director of Manufacturing Cybersecurity and support the people, process and technology enhancements needed for successful cybersecurity risk management within the manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and implementation of cybersecurity measures to safeguard vital Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure. This role requires a collaborative and purposeful approach with business, sites and other technology and cyber teams to protect operational technology, balancing the enhancement of security measures with the importance of resilience and the facilitation of digital transformation. This will require working with global manufacturing and distribution locations, with the aim of comprehensively understanding pivotal cyber processes and technologies, evaluating both emerging and current cyber tools, and creating and advocating for the adoption of robust standards and solutions to mitigate identified risks and strengthen security postures at Abbott’s sites with operational technology infrastructure such as -

• Oversee strategic planning, implementation and enable governance of cybersecurity measures for vital Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure including conceptualize, design and build secure controls and technical solutions for securing Operational Technology including applications, systems, architectures and infrastructure in an operationally viable and efficient manner.

• Ensure proper leveraging of security products and technologies to protect the Operational Technology systems and information, across all business and sites, enabling achievement of organization’s Manufacturing Cybersecurity goals.

• Manage and design innovative integration of cybersecurity toolsets to enable more automation in discovery, remediation and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities for Operational Technology, as a means of improving the security posture. Oversee the analysis of emerging technologies, design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new controls and technologies.

• Manage a risk-based cybersecurity program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices.

• Advance Abbott’s cyber threat and vulnerability management programs to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response and monitoring of cyber security threats, events and vulnerabilities and deploying countermeasures in Operational Technology environments across all businesses and sites.

• Collaborate with business units, sites, application development teams, third party vendors in Operational Technology environments to achieve Manufacturing Cybersecurity goals.

• Facilit