Head of Cybersecurity Strategy

Securitas Group

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.

With around employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world's best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.

Securitas IT

Securitas vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner through being client centric, data driven, and people focused. Our protective services help make your world a safer place.

Securitas IT is a global function that creates the capabilities of a modern and powerful IT technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy.  We develop and invest in technology and people. Our co-workers support digital products and services for clients and transforming and protecting our existing IT landscape, making sure our colleagues all over the world can work efficiently in a modern IT environment.

We are now looking for the Head of Cybersecurity Strategy & Transformation who would work directly with the Group CISO to define, drive, and execute the global cybersecurity strategy. As a core member of the CISO leadership team, the role shapes and steers the organization's cybersecurity direction, ensuring that the CISO's vision is translated into cohesive transformation initiatives, measurable results, and strong alignment across all business and technology domains. Acting as both a strategic leader and a transformation supervisor, this position bridges global strategy and execution — fostering collaboration, efficiency, and shared accountability across cybersecurity and business teams.

Responsibilities

1. Strategic Definition & Alignment

• Define and evolve the global cybersecurity strategy in alignment with corporate objectives, business priorities, and regulatory expectations, under the leadership of the Group CISO.
• Build and maintain a multi-horizon roadmap that balances short-term delivery, mid-term competitiveness, and long-term resilience.
• Challenge assumptions, shape priorities, and guide strategic decision-making based on risk, business impact, and value creation.
• Shape and align the Cybersecurity Operating Model to position cybersecurity as a global services platform, ensuring coherence, scalability, and relevance to business needs across the enterprise.
• Define a unified cybersecurity vision that integrates technology initiatives, business enablement, and organizational transformation as core pillars of the Group CISO's strategy.
• Drive executive communication and governance activities, including board reporting and strategic committees, ensuring clarity, alignment, and transparency.

2. Transformation & Execution Leadership

• Collaborate closely with the Group CISO and the CISO leadership team to lead the execution of the cybersecurity strategy across all domains and geographies.
• Mobilize, align, and inspire cybersecurity teams around the CISO's strategic direction, fostering shared accountability and a unified execution model.
• Oversee global cybersecurity transformation programs and governance structures to drive agility, coherence, and measurable impact.
• Ensure the global coherence and strategic alignment of all cybersecurity programs including core initiatives such as Zero Trust, Cloud Security, Identity & Access Management, and Cyber Resilience as well as business-driven projects and organizational transformation initiatives within the cybersecurity function.
• Oversee the implementation and continuous improvement of the Cybersecurity Operating Model, ensuring its efficiency, scalability, and alignment with business priorities.
• Drive the evolution and delivery of cybersecurity as a global services platform, enabling consistent, value-driven, and cost-effective capabilities available to all business entities.
• Promote an integrated, enterprise-wide vision that connects cyber maturity, business value, and operational excellence, while improving efficiency, resource optimization, and cost-effectiveness across the cybersecurity portfolio.
• Define and track strategic KPIs and KRIs to measure maturity, progress, and outcomes, ensuring visibility and alignment across leadership levels.
• Represent the Group CISO in selected internal and external forums to reinforce strategic consistency and executive visibility.

3. Governance, Communication & Engagement

• Ensure a consistent governance model for the cybersecurity department and reporting framework across global and regional cybersecurity functions to ensure alignment with the group CISO vision.
• Act as a link and integrator between the Group CISO and the broader cybersecurity community, ensuring that priorities and transformation objectives are clearly communicated and collectively owned.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment across IT, Risk, Compliance, Audit, Data Protection, and business units.
• Cascade the cybersecurity strategy across all levels of the organization and ensure clarity of purpose and accountability.
• Promote a results-oriented, change-driven culture that encourages openness, collaboration, and constructive challenge.
• Communicate effectively on the strategic value and impact of cybersecurity to business and executive stakeholders.

4. Strategic Partnerships, Business Enablement & Innovation

• Develop and promote cybersecurity strategies that directly support business objectives, enabling growth, trust, and digital innovation.
• Identify and shape strategic initiatives and partnerships that strengthen the organization's cybersecurity posture while creating business value such as secure-by-design services, customer trust programs, or ecosystem collaboration.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for cross-company cybersecurity strategy and innovation initiatives.
• Collaborate with corporate strategy, digital transformation, product, and business teams to embed cybersecurity as a competitive advantage in products, platforms, and services.
• Represent the organization in industry, innovation, and regulatory forums, influencing the evolution of cybersecurity standards and fostering external visibility and trust.

Requirements 

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity, strategy, or transformation leadership roles, including exposure to complex, multinational environments.
  
• Strong background in consulting or strategic advisory, ideally focused on cybersecurity, digital transformation, or enterprise risk.
• Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Strategy, Management, or Risk.
• Solid understanding of cyber risk management, governance frameworks (ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, GDPR), and large-scale technology ecosystems.
• Proven ability to supervise and orchestrate a global portfolio of cybersecurity programs, ensuring strategic coherence and alignment across technology, risk, operations, and business.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, evolving, and governing a Cybersecurity Operating Model, ensuring global consistency and efficiency
• Ability to engage with senior executives and aligning global stakeholders around common goals, metrics, and transformation priorities.

Working conditions

The role is open for candidates based in Europe. It involves regular travelling. 

WHAT WE OFFER

At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them a multitude of talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.

If it all sounds good to you, don't hesitate to apply