Asia Regional Chief: Cyber Risk & Resiliency

Manulife; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife seeks a senior leader to drive regional cyber risk management and resiliency across Asia. You will guide Country Cyber Leads (BUSOs), align with enterprise risk standards, and oversee risk documentation quality, incident readiness, and cross-market incident responses.

This role requires coordinating with regulators, senior technology stakeholders, and business leaders across markets. The position emphasizes regional ownership, strategic risk interpretation, and escalation discipline to

Qualifications

• 12+ years in cyber risk management or cybersecurity leadership across multiple markets.
• Strong understanding of enterprise cyber risk frameworks and incident management.
• Proven ability to lead diverse regional teams and align market activities.
• Experience coordinating incident response readiness planning and simulations.
• Analytical and communication skills to explain cyber risks to non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections or audits.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM or CRISC are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide regional ownership for cyber risk management across Asia with consistent risk interpretation and documentation.
• Lead Country Cyber Leads (BUSOs) as a unified regional team and ensure alignment with enterprise risk expectations.
• Oversee risk documentation quality to support defensible articulation of cyber risks.
• Lead regional cyber resiliency, incident readiness, playbooks and simulation exercises.
• Provide regional leadership during cross-market cyber incidents with effective escalation and Global directives.
• Aggregate and analyze regional risk themes to provide actionable insights to Asia leadership and global stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Security Risk Assessment and Advisory to embed risk management in transformations.
• Support regulatory and audit interactions with regional interpretation of cyber risk posture.
• Maintain escalation discipline and cross-market execution; engage market technology leadership for regional standards.

Skills

Cyber risk leadership

Cross-market collaboration

Regulatory risk understanding

Incident response coordination

Stakeholder communication

Risk governance

Education

CISSP / CISM / CRISC certifications preferred

Job description

Manulife seeks a senior leader to drive regional cyber risk management and resiliency across Asia. You will guide Country Cyber Leads (BUSOs), align with enterprise risk standards, and oversee risk documentation quality, incident readiness, and cross-market incident responses.

This role requires coordinating with regulators, senior technology stakeholders, and business leaders across markets. The position emphasizes regional ownership, strategic risk interpretation, and escalation discipline to