A&D Cybersecurity Strategy & Deal Security Lead

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Yuma (AZ); On-site; USD 122,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Senior Manager to lead A&D Security Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations, guiding cybersecurity across pre-close and post-close activities. You will drive portfolio planning, risk management, and executive reporting while coordinating with Legal, Privacy, Finance, and Transaction teams globally.

The role emphasizes delivering repeatable processes, mature playbooks, and close collaboration with ISRM and Corporate Development to ensure secure, compliant, and timely

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information risk management, technology operations, program management, or related disciplines.
• Experience coordinating complex programs or portfolios involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, dependencies, timelines, risks, and executive reporting needs.
• Demonstrated ability to translate cybersecurity, technology, and business requirements into actionable operating plans, status reporting, governance routines, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• A&D Cybersecurity Portfolio Operations: Manage a comprehensive portfolio of A&D cybersecurity initiatives across pre-close and post-close phases, including timelines, risks, dependencies, workstream status, resource utilization, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Capability Resourcing & Oversight: Support resource planning, onboarding, project assignment, contractor coordination, and operating rhythms needed to scale the A&D cybersecurity capability across a growing pipeline of active and future transactions.
• Deal Security Enablement: Advance deal security initiatives, including service offering awareness, community of practice engagement, deal team education, intake support, and consistent cybersecurity participation across transaction types.
• Reporting, Governance & Executive Visibility: Maintain executive-level reporting on portfolio performance, risk posture, issue trends, decision needs, and progress against integration and divestiture milestones, with refinements to support diverse deal types.
• Post-Close Workstream Coordination: Serve as a delivery lead or deputy DRI for selected ISRM post-close integration and divestiture workstreams, helping coordinate plans, owners, dependencies, status, risks, and escalation paths.
• Process Standardization & Operational Maturity: Establish and improve A&D security administrative processes, playbooks, templates, workflows, RACI models, handoff criteria, portfolio routines, and Definition of Done expectations.
• Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned from prior integrations and divestitures, update cybersecurity integration playbooks, improve reporting and workflows, and partner across JJT A&D and ISRM teams to strengthen execution quality.
• Risk, Dependency & Issue Management: Track cybersecurity risks, open issues, remediation activities, decision points, and cross-functional dependencies to help ensure timely closure, escalation, or formal acceptance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, technology, legal, privacy, finance, corporate development, transaction execution, and integration/separation teams to align cybersecurity execution with business priorities and transaction timelines.
• Team Leadership & Development: Provide guidance to team members, contractors, project resources, and capability leads in a matrixed environment, supporting performance, onboarding, knowledge sharing, accountability, and consistent delivery practices.

Skills

Executive communication

Cybersecurity risk mgmt

Program management

M&A experience

Matrix leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline

Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) preferred

Job description

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Senior Manager to lead A&D Security Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations, guiding cybersecurity across pre-close and post-close activities. You will drive portfolio planning, risk management, and executive reporting while coordinating with Legal, Privacy, Finance, and Transaction teams globally.

The role emphasizes delivering repeatable processes, mature playbooks, and close collaboration with ISRM and Corporate Development to ensure secure, compliant, and timely