Director - Cyber Assurance

Location: USA, VA, Richmond

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The Opportunity

The Director of Cybersecurity Assurance leads cyber assurance and advisory functions for the security organization. This role manages a team of security leads overseeing cyber risk management, security architecture, regulatory and audit compliance, and policy development. The Director provides security architecture and advisory support to business and product teams to enforce security by design, and owns the cyber security awareness program, including tabletop exercises and phishing campaigns.

This leadership role requires deep technical expertise in security architecture, advisory, and risk management. The Director sets strategy, roadmaps, and success metrics; governs delivery and reliability rhythms; and drives security outcomes across teams. Additional responsibilities include securing leadership alignment, defining oversight scorecards, ensuring adherence to enterprise policies, and communicating risks and progress to executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own the enterprise Cyber Assurance strategy and operating model, including the build out of the team and developing the intent, direction, and roadmap for the program
• Lead the cyber security architecture practice including building a security architecture program to ensure security by design practices and requirements are embedded in everything we do
• Providing security advisory services to the business and application teams and performing security and threat assessments to identify security control gaps and ensuring the proper requirements are implemented into the architecture design
• Partnering with the Threat Detection & Response leader to implement a Threat Modeling program
• Develop and lead the cyber security metrics and executive reporting processes, including KPIs and metrics
• Establish a remediation program to drive closure of all security vulnerabilities and gaps identified through incidents, assessments, architecture reviews, vulnerability scans; ensure clear ownership, prioritization, timelines, and exception processes
• Lead cyber security risk management activities (e.g. audit, regulatory), coordinate with risk partners on all assessments activities and deliverables
• Design and implement policies, standards, and procedures in partnership with key stakeholders; ensuring governance and reporting processes and exception processes are implemented
• Lead and develop the cyber security awareness program including the development and execution of cyber table top exercises and phishing campaigns
• Lead the cyber security resiliency program and ensure effective incident response and recovery processes are implemented
• Responsible for the development and implementation of an asset management program within the cyber organization
• Lead the third party risk management program and processes including the inventory of third parties, risk assessment process, prioritization of third parties, understanding of risk severity of third parties

Minimum Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 15+ years of professional experience and 10+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).

Skills and Qualifications

15+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant depth in security architecture, cyber assurance and advisory, third party management, cyber grc, risk management and compliance, including 10+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs.

Hands-on and leadership experience managing a security architecture program

Proven ability to drive remediation outcomes at scale establishing SLAs, clarifying ownership, prioritizing backlogs, and closing systemic gaps surfaced by incidents, hunts, and assessments.

Executive-ready communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present risk, progress, and investment needs to senior leadership and influence decisions

Demonstrated ability to set strategy, secure organizational alignment/approvals, and deliver outcomes through multiple stakeholders (Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application/Product, and business teams).

Deep understanding cyber security risk management, compliance, architecture and advisory services

Strong risk communication skills: able to translate detection gaps and remediation tradeoffs into business impact, present to executives, and drive decisions to closure.

Experience establishing oversight metrics and operational rhythms (OKRs/KPIs, reporting, service reviews) and using data to improve alert quality, reduce noise, and accelerate remediation throughput.

Working knowledge of relevant governance and regulatory expectations and the ability to partner effectively with audit/compliance and privacy stakeholders while operating an effective detection and response capability.

Track record of building high-performing teams and leading with integrity, accountability, and operational discipline; known for clear communication, sound judgment, and reliable execution.

Experience developing multi-year roadmaps and influencing investment decisions (people, tooling, telemetry, automation) to improve enterprise detection and remediation outcomes.

Proven capability managing vendor relationships and service contracts for security tooling and managed services, including defining requirements and measuring performance against outcomes.

Strong understanding of privacy considerations and appropriate monitoring practices; able to partner with Legal/Privacy and HR as needed and ensure monitoring and investigations remain within policy and regulatory boundaries.

Experience operating in hybrid/cloud environments and partnering with platform teams to instrument systems (cloud logging, identity signals, endpoint telemetry, network data) for reliable detections.

Strong strategic and tactical decision-makingable to balance speed and risk, define compensating controls, and drive complex remediation decisions across multiple owners.

Experience leading or sponsoring purple team activities, tabletop exercises, and control validation to continuously improve detection coverage and response playbooks.

Trusted leader who builds credibility with executives and teams through transparency, follow-through, and a strong culture of operational excellence.

Education Requirements

Bachelors degree in computer science, information security/assurance, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.

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Certification Requirements

Relevant certifications (preferred): CISSP, CISM, GIAC/SANS, +, SSCP, or equivalent foundational security certification. TDR/SecOps certifications (a plus): Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer and/or Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or GIAC certifications (e.g., GSEC, GCIH) depending on role focus. and/or cloud/security engineering certifications aligned to the teams platforms.

About MMS

McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS), which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027, is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment and supplies, along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets – often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care – include physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care providers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, health systems, government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.

Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly, and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8,000 employees, a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles, we collaborate with more than 2,200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200,000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270,000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products – from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.

Career Level - M4

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$150,000 - $250,000

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