Associate Director - Product Security Lifecycle (Lake Forest, CA or Remote)

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you'll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. The Associate Director, Product Security Lifecycle will be supporting Global Research & Development Product Development. You will be responsible for leading all aspects of and managing the end-to-end Alcon Product Security Lifecycle efforts from strategy, developing, and implementing product security processes for medical devices and digital solutions. A key aspect of this role is to manage and ensure products comply with the cybersecurity pre-market and post-market activities and to support governance, compliance, and risk management initiatives. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Manage overall governance, compliance, and risk management processes for the product security and privacy program.
• Manage and sustain the Alcon Product Security Process (APSP) and related policies, procedure and standards, and other internal Alcon standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Simplify as relevant the APSP processes and procedures and ensure continuous security enablement with global regulatory requirements and frameworks.
• Enable product security post-market processes (operations, incident management, change management processes, etc.).
• Facilitate and lead where relevant the product security audits, third party assessment, and compliance initiatives and meet internal stakeholder requirements (HIPAA, UL 2900, and Quality, Regulatory, etc.).
• Lead global product security engagement in meeting registration filing needs working closely with regulatory teams.
• Ensure consistency across customer security documentation as needed.
• Develop internal and external product security materials including training and awareness, product-specific materials, security guides, labeling needs, and other technical materials.
• Collaborate with Alcon cross-functional team to support process improvements and automation as needed including common artifacts, tools implementation, security portals, etc.
• Building capabilities, tools, including automation to drive improvements for Alcon product security process and practices.
• Providing guidance and training to product development teams on product security best practices and processes.
• Staying up to date with the latest global product security standards, frameworks, and global regulations
• Support quantification of security/privacy risks and readouts to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience in a regulated environment. Preferred to have a Medical Device, MedTech, or health care experience.
• Experience in the delivery and execution of product security processes, standards, best practices, and tools.
• Application of global privacy compliance, security regulations across software development lifecycle
• Creative ways to apply process management best practices to enable teams to operate more efficiently.
• Experience in program/project management in cybersecurity initiatives.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +13 yrs; Assoc.+9 yrs; M.S.+2 yrs; PhD+0 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English.
• 5+ Years of Relevant Experience in cybersecurity processes, frameworks, regulations (FDA/MDR/HIPAA etc.)
• Working knowledge in cybersecurity processes, frameworks, regulations and product/software development process, agile processes, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with Global teams.

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

• Benefit from working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Join Alcon's mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and much more!
• Travel Requirements: up to 25% if remote
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Sponsorship available: Yes

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Pay Range

$132,560.00 - $198,840.00

Pay Frequency

Annual

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.