Information Security Officer

• Competitive salary, paid on the 25th, with annual review and 8% holiday allowance

• Pension via Nationale Nederlanden, Northwave pays 50%, including partner pension

• 25 vacation days plus all national holidays

• Ample special leave for marriage, birth, bereavement, care, and pregnancy

• Lease car on salary scale (also electric), or choose €0.25/km plus 50% lease budget as a mobility allowance

• MacBook, phone, and accessories fully provided

• €200 net annual allowance for flexible and remote working

• Alleo budget for sports, wellness, and leisure of your choice

• Training budget

• Referral bonus when recommending a new colleague

• Hybrid working from a modern office in Utrecht

• Personal growth via the Role Model and FeedForward cycle, with your ambitions and development at the center

Enabling customers to safely continue their primary business by providing direction for their information security and privacy as a trusted advisor, and reducing risks to a level that matches their strategy and context.

• Be a reliable interlocutor for customers at a tactical and strategic level, all the way up to the boardroom

• Make risks to the customer's primary business insightable and reduce them through appropriate organizational, technical, and behavioral measures

• Build, maintain, and demonstrably make the information security and privacy management system work at the customer

• Realize compliance as a logical outcome of good security management, not as an end in itself

• Customer relationship and strategic advice. Build a long-term relationship with your customers, understand their core business, and advise at a tactical and strategic level on risks, priorities, and measures.

• Translating risks into action. Translate abstract information security and privacy issues into concrete, achievable solutions that fit the maturity and ambition of the customer.

• Realizing management systems. Initiate and guide changes in the customer's security and privacy management system, and monitor implementation and continuity.

• Stakeholder management at board level. You regularly engage with management teams, boards and executives such as a CIO, CISO, CFO or COO - giving them insight into the cyber threat landscape, their risk position and progress on improvement plans, in language that aligns with théir priorities.

• Holistic approach. Determine when business, technical, or behavioral measures are needed and involve the right colleagues from the Northwave network.

• Representing Northwave. Act as the face of an organization at the customer that is seen as an authority in the field of integrated information security.

A permanent position with your own customer portfolio, with clear risk insights and accepted improvement plans at the executive level

• The management system at the customer is demonstrably in motion, with visible progress on the priorities that matter to the business

• Smooth collaboration with the broader customer team (privacy, information security projects, Red Team, Blue Team, Awareness), acting as a director towards the customer

• Customers experience you as someone who makes complex issues understandable and helps executives to make well-founded decisions

You don't need to have all the knowledge and experience in house from day one; we offer space to grow in this role. What is essential: you are naturally strong at building relationships with senior stakeholders. You feel just as comfortable in a conversation with an IT manager as in a boardroom with a CFO or COO, and you know how to build trust without hiding behind frameworks or jargon. You put the customer's business central, can structure complexity, and are firm enough to provide counterweight at the executive level yet pragmatic enough to truly get movement in execution.

Do you not meet all the points above, but do recognize yourself in the profile—namely, being strong in building relationships with senior stakeholders and motivated to grow in information security and privacy? Then we still cordially invite you to apply. We look at potential and the right attitude at least as much as a perfect match on paper.

Apply directly or contact Robin Verdegaal.