Job Description Summary
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The Global Lead for Cyber Crisis Readiness and Recovery is crucial for ensuring strategic and technical preparedness against destructive cyberattacks on Sandoz’s infrastructure or applications. It demands continuous alignment on 24x7 basis with Security Operations and Infrastructure teams, as well as designing and implementing complex, last-resort recovery solutions. The role has exposure to C-level executives for example during Cyber Crisis Tabletop Exercises.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement the Cyber Crisis Readiness and Recovery strategies and capabilities within the Information Security Resilience and Compliance (ISRC) team to ensure that critical business processes are safeguarded and effectively recovered in case of disruption, and that regulatory requirements are met.
Design and implement Sandoz’s cyber resilience and recovery environment by collaborating with external vendors and internal stakeholders. Develop and implement the Cyber Resilience Playbook at enterprise level as well as individual technology plans and processes for recovering from destructive cyber incidents.
Coordinate efforts to restore systems, networks, and data as part of the Cyber Resilience Playbook after a cyberattack in collaboration with Infrastructure, Application, Disaster Recovery teams and external vendors. Regularly enhance processes as the cyber threat evolves, in alignment with threat-informed defense teams.
Develop and coordinate Cyber Crisis Tabletop Exercises (TTX) to assess the organization's readiness for major cyber incidents. Define testing scenarios and objectives in collaboration with stakeholders, analyze test results, identify gaps, and recommend enhancements to continuously strengthen the resiliency and recovery of Sandoz.
Design, implement, and manage globally Cyber Crisis Readiness and Recovery standards and processes to identify, monitor, mitigate and report on risks from Operational Recovery, Disaster Recovery and IT Third Parties shall a cyber incident occur. Translate risks into a pragmatic roadmap and improvements to the resilience program, including amending related policies, standards and controls.
Support the Global ISRC with risk prioritization, threat identification, and executive reporting up to Sandoz’ leadership, especially regarding Critical Assets and Critical IT Services.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
5–10 years of experience in cybersecurity, ideally in cyber resilience, cyber recovery, incident response, or crisis management.
Proven experience designing and implementing cyber resilience and recovery strategies in a complex enterprise environment.
Strong understanding of cyber crisis management, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with C-level executives.
Experience leading or facilitating cyber crisis simulations, tabletop exercises (TTX), and recovery planning activities.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively under pressure and during critical incidents.
Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary
Risk Life Insurance
5-week holiday per year (1 week above the Labor Law requirement)
Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus CZ in the amount of 12,000 CZK per year
Meal vouchers in amount of 120 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company)
Multisport Card
Premium Health Care Program
Car Allowance
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
Commitment to Diversity & InclusionWe are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Skills Desired
Communication Skills, Cyber-Security Regulation, Cyber Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence (Cti), Cyber Threat Management, Cyber Vulnerabilities, Decision Making Skills, Influencing Skills, Information Security Risk ManagementSkills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5-10 years of experience in cybersecurity, with focus on cyber resilience, recovery, incident response, or crisis management.
- Proven experience designing and implementing cyber resilience and recovery strategies in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of cyber crisis management, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
- Experience leading or facilitating cyber crisis simulations and tabletop exercises (TTX).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with C-level executives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to operate effectively under pressure and during critical incidents.
- Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
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