Senior Vendor Risk Consultant

This role involves working with clients to identify client supply chain risk and cybersecurity challenges, advising on best practices in vendor risk management, and ensuring successful delivery of solutions. The incumbent will consult directly with clients to establish and improve the management of vendor risks, implement third-party cybersecurity risk management programs and support the day-to-day review of and interaction with third-party vendors.

• Participate in third-party risk management consulting engagements as part of BlueVoyant's Supply Chain Defense business
• Support Third-Party Risk Workshops at BlueVoyant Clients focused on the following topics:
  • Vendor Identification and Stratification
  • Vendor On-boarding, Monitoring and Remediation
  • Cybersecurity Risk Questionnaire Development
• Project and program delivery, including project and process management, reporting, engagement in senior leadership meetings, drafting and reviewing materials for senior management and other governance activities
• Communicate findings and recommendations to client stakeholders, best practices, tools and technology
• Mature standard operating procedures for customers to optimize utilization of offerings
• Enable business development in renewal, cross-sell, and up-sell opportunities of offerings while maintaining client trust
• Create repeatable processes and frameworks portable across clients and industries to accelerate future Third-Party Risk Cybersecurity Risk Management implementations
• Travel to clients as requested

• CISSP or similar preferred
• Familiarity with encryption fundamentals and network design required
• 2+ years of Third-Party Risk Management consulting (including vendor cybersecurity risk) at a Big 4 consulting firm or vendor risk management company
• 3+ years leading an enterprise risk management program, including Third-Party Risk, Internal Risk Maturity and Assessment, Risk Consolidation, and Risk Reporting
• Information security/cybersecurity accreditation and background
• Experience working in a cybersecurity or technology organization
• Entrepreneurial nature and drive for results
• Clear communication and writing skills
• Ability to conduct deep client discovery to uncover root cause problems and build trusted relationships
• Ability to design programs and solutions with minimal guidance and oversight

We recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. We prioritize accuracy, actionability, timeliness and scalability in our approach.

Led by our CEO, Jim Rosenthal, our highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. Our services utilize large real-time datasets with industry-leading analytics and technologies.

We are headquartered in New York City and have offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America. All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

We strive to maintain high standards of integrity and professionalism in our operations. Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of our federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee's ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon our verification of the employee's citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting.