Provide operational leadership for the External Party Risk Management program, ensuring effective execution of assessments, issue management, and ongoing monitoring.
Serve as a subject matter expert in External Party Risk Management and the latest NIST Cybersecurity Framework, advising stakeholders and leadership on standards and expectations.
Enable and mentor analysts through clear processes, training, tooling alignment, and performance expectations.
Drive consistency and standardization across External Party Risk Management workflows, methodologies, and documentation.
Establish and manage prioritization of work to align risk efforts with business needs, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite.
Collaborate with engineering and development teams using Agile DevOps practices to support and enhance tools that enable External Party Risk Management processes.
Apply working knowledge of full-stack technologies to effectively collaborate with technical teams and influence solutions.

Requirements

Master’s degree in information security, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
Active CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification.
Experience in External Party Risk Management or Third-party risk management.
Demonstrated experience applying NIST cybersecurity controls in risk assessments and monitoring activities.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering teams using Agile DevOps practices.
Working knowledge of full-stack technologies sufficient to influence design, integration, and delivery decisions.
Proven ability to scale and mature risk operations in a global environment.

Benefits

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Walmart-paid education benefit program for associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for various programs.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

NIST Cybersecurity FrameworkExternal Party Risk ManagementAgile DevOps practicesfull-stack technologiesrisk assessmentsmonitoring activitiesrisk operations

Soft Skills

operational leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationprioritization

Certifications

CISSP