Senior Associate - Supply Chain Cyber Security Specialist - Cyber Risk Advisory

**Senior Associate - Supply Chain Cyber Security Specialist - Cyber Risk Advisory** As a Senior Associate in our Cybersecurity and Privacy team, you will play a key role in delivering and growing our supply chain cyber risk capability across all sectors of clients. You will help our clients strengthen their third-party cyber risk management programs, comply with evolving regulatory expectations such as DORA, NIS2, and respond to emerging threats across complex, global supply chains. This is a growth-focused role, supporting engagements across multiple financial services and non-financial services clients, many of which are part of multi-year transformation programs. **Your Impact** As part of the Cybersecurity and Privacy team of PwC Switzerland, you will work on: - delivering client engagements focused on supply chain cyber security, third party risk, and compliance with DORA, NIS2, and related regulations across industries; - designing and implementing supplier segmentation, cyber risk assessments, control testing, continuous monitoring, and incident response processes as part of broader Supplier Risk and IT GRC transformations; - collaborating with clients to define and operationalize future state Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) operating models, including roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and response plans; - building AI augmented TPRM capabilities and workflows leveraging platforms such as ServiceNow, ProcessUnity, BitSight, RiskRecon, and SecurityScorecard, including tooling configuration and integrations; - developing pragmatic recommendations and roadmaps to improve cyber risk governance, continuous monitoring, and incident/issue management across the third party lifecycle; - leading and contributing to workshops, reporting, and executive ready presentations for CISO, CIO, Risk, Compliance, and Procurement stakeholders; - supporting internal capability building, contributing to thought leadership, market propositions, proposal responses, and account expansion initiatives; and - coaching and mentoring junior team members while fostering a high performance, inclusive team culture. **Your Skill Set** We are looking for a Senior Associate who embodies our core values and brings a strong background in cyber security: - You have at minimum 5 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, third-party risk, or supply chain risk management. - You have a master's or bachelor's degree or an equivalent professional qualification in business administration or computer science. Additional certificates such as CISM, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, CISSP are a plus. - Proven experience working with financial services clients, ideally within regulatory-driven engagements (e.g., DORA, NIS2). - Strong understanding of supply chain cybersecurity frameworks, supplier risk segmentation, control testing, and cyber risk quantification. - Familiarity with supply chain risk platforms such as ProcessUnity, ServiceNow, BitSight, RiskRecon, or equivalent. - Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and client-facing skills. - You have strong verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with all levels of management and staff. - You are fluent in English and (ideally) also in German and/or French. - You have a high degree of initiative, self-organisation and sense of responsibility. Any questions? We are happy to help. Patricia Santos Recruitment Team +41 58 792 15 78   **About PwC** At PwC Switzerland, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're part of a tech-forward, people-empowered network and help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum across audit, assurance, tax, legal, workforce, deals and consulting. Quelle: https://ch.linkedin.com/jobs/view/senior-associate-supply-chain-cyber-security-specialist-cyber-risk-advisory-at-pwc-switzerland-4330756626

Level: senior