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Merck & Co, Inc

Assoc. Dir., Product Security (Remote)

Law Enforcement and Security

Diplomatic Security

No

Branchburg, New Jersey, United States

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

Reporting directly to the Director of Application Security, this position is responsible for collaborating across IT organizations to build and implement security services to support development lifecycle of consumer products such as Sure PetCare products. This position will work closely with the IT and Business to prioritize and address emerging risks throughout the Product lifecyle. Therefore, the candidate must be able to relate security capabilities to business and IT strategies.

You will:

  • Assist with strategic planning, build and implementation of services to secure product lifecycle

  • Provide technical leadership to enable engineering teams across our Company to build and operate technologies and products that are secure by default

  • Lead security engineering efforts to reduce attack surface, enhance our processes for product security incident response

  • Partner with divisional stakeholders to influence security of product development, and communicate associated risk

  • Define the requirements, best practices, and lead the collaborative development of system/service architecture, design and engineering

  • Inspire, grow, and manage technical talent while providing vision and setting technical direction

  • Assist with product security and compliance initiatives on an ad-hoc basis

  • Partner with IT GRC counterparts to author controls and standards

  • Brief executive leaders on emerging cyber threats and ongoing efforts to proactively address potential cyber security risks


Education Minimum Requirement:

Bachelor's Degree with 7 years of experience, or High School Diploma with 10 years of experience.

Preferred Degrees:

  • Cyber security

  • Computer Science

  • Engineering

  • Management/Computer Information Systems

  • Information Assurance

Required Experience and Skills:

  • 7+ years’ experience in an information technology field with at least 3-4 years in product security or risk management area.

  • Solid leadership & collaboration skills, able to network with colleagues in both domestic and international locations.

  • Experience with engineering and delivering security solutions in/for a large enterprise. Understanding of software/system delivery lifecycle and accompanying technologies.

  • Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills.

  • Strong interpersonal communications skills and worked in agile.


Preferred Experience and Skills:

Leadership role in building secure product life cycle program for an organization. 5+ years of experience in product lifecycle security management. Prior experience with security engineering and application security technologies and processes.

  • Demonstrated knowledge of product security including:

    • Application security controls as part of software development life cycle

    • Software security best practices in test and operate environment

    • Mitigating the Common Vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)

    • Incident and vulnerability management

    • Experience with threat modelling, penetration testing scoping and security design review methodologies

  • Proficiency in cloud and mobile security concepts

  • Ability to motivate, mentor and develop talent both technically and interpersonal skills

  • Highly responsive with an ability to handle escalations quickly and professionally

  • Solid understanding of enterprise security architecture concepts

  • Ability to work both independently and perform as a leader in a team environment

  • Ability to collaboratively and independently create, communicate and implement strategies.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

Residents of Colorado

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For positions located in the United States and Puerto Rico – Subject to applicable law, all new hires (including internal transfers) must demonstrate that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or that they qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement. New hires (including internal transfers) to a position that, as determined by the Company, requires routine collaboration with external stakeholders (such as roles in health services or customer-facing commercial or research-based roles) (“Customer-Facing Role”) who are not vaccinated must qualify for a medical or religious exemption and be in a position that the Company determines can accommodate unvaccinated employees without causing an undue burden to business operations. If, following dialog with the candidate as appropriate, it is determined that the candidate either a) does not qualify for a religious or medical exemption or, b) for candidates applying for Customer-Facing roles, it is determined that allowing the candidate to work without vaccination would cause an undue burden to the Company, the candidate will be ineligible for hire or transfer, or any offer of employment or transfer (if applicable) will be revoked. Please note that notwithstanding the approval of any reasonable accommodation, the Company reserves the right to monitor, modify, or revoke any such accommodation if it is determined, following dialog with the employee, that the accommodation is no longer effective or results in an undue burden to the Company.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote Work

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID:R200055