M&A Cybersecurity Due Diligence Lead

MWI Buying Group; Conshohocken, Northern (Montgomery County, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision care

Training programs

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Principal, Secure MA&D to lead pre-close cybersecurity due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. You will identify cyber risks, estimate costs, manage diligence partners, and support Day-1 readiness planning.

You will partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, and Information Security to validate risks and costs, transfer findings to owners, and improve diligence templates and cost models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; PMP/CRISC strongly preferred; CISSP/CISM/CISA/CCSP are a plus.
• 8–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information risk, security consulting, M&A due diligence, or security program leadership.
• Experience leading cybersecurity assessments, risk reviews, diligence activities, or integration planning.
• Strong understanding of core security domains, including IAM, endpoint security, vulnerability management, cloud security, data protection, security operations, GRC, and third-party risk.
• Ability to explain cyber risks in business terms and connect findings to cost, timing, compliance, and operational impact.
• Experience developing high-level remediation, integration, and run-cost estimates.
• Strong vendor-management and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level summaries and decision materials.
• Ability to travel as needed (5% - 15%).

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-close cybersecurity due diligence for assigned MA&D transactions.
• Review target-company security posture, documentation, interviews, and assessment results.
• Identify key cyber risks, control gaps, compliance concerns, and Day 1 readiness issues.
• Translate technical findings into clear business, operational, and financial impacts.
• Manage third-party cybersecurity diligence providers, including scope, timelines, deliverables, and quality of findings.
• Develop preliminary cost estimates for remediation, integration, tooling, licensing, labor, and ongoing run support.
• Partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, and Information Security teams to validate risks, assumptions, and costs.
• Transfer diligence findings, risks, and open items to security capability owners before close.
• Support Day 1 readiness planning by identifying minimum required controls, dependencies, and immediate post-close actions.
• Maintain clear documentation of risks, decisions, assumptions, action items, and handoffs.
• Improve Secure MA&D diligence templates, playbooks, cost models, and reporting materials.

Skills

Cybersecurity

M&A due diligence

Vendor management

Executive communication

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

IAM

Cloud security

GRC

Job description

Cencora is seeking a Principal, Secure MA&D to lead pre-close cybersecurity due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. You will identify cyber risks, estimate costs, manage diligence partners, and support Day-1 readiness planning.

You will partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, and Information Security to validate risks and costs, transfer findings to owners, and improve diligence templates and cost models.