Your Team
As a Senior Associate in our Cybersecurity and Privacy team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our supply chain cyber risk capability across various client sectors. Your efforts will assist clients in reinforcing their third-party cyber risk management programs, ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory expectations such as DORA and NIS2, and addressing emerging threats within complex, global supply chains.
This is a growth-focused position, supporting engagements across multiple financial and non-financial services clients, many of which are part of extensive multi-year transformation initiatives.
Your Impact
As a member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy team at PwC Switzerland, you will engage in the following activities:
- Delivering client engagements focused on supply chain cybersecurity, third-party risk, and compliance with DORA, NIS2, and related regulations across various industries.
- Designing and implementing supplier segmentation, cyber risk assessments, control testing, continuous monitoring, and incident response processes, integral to broader Supplier Risk and IT GRC transformations.
- Collaborating with clients to define and operationalize future state Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) operating models, including delineating 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 enhance 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 development, contributing to thought leadership, market propositions, proposal responses, and initiatives for account expansion.
- 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 demonstrates a strong background in cybersecurity:
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, third-party risk, or supply chain risk management.
- A master's or bachelor's degree or an equivalent professional qualification in business administration or computer science. Additional certifications such as CISM, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, or CISSP are advantageous.
- Proven experience collaborating with financial services clients, ideally within regulatory-driven engagements (e.g., DORA, NIS2).
- A 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 tools.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and client-facing skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities to interact effectively with all levels of management and staff.
- Fluent in English; proficiency in German and/or French is a plus.
- A high degree of initiative, self-organization, and a strong sense of responsibility.
How to Apply
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.