Astellas Canada –

At Astellas, we strive to become a cutting-edge, value-driven life science innovator. This means working at the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.

What sets us apart is our focus on patients, our pioneering innovation, our collaborative culture, and the passion of our talented people.

Making a positive impact on patients’ lives is the purpose behind everything we do. At Astellas, we are relentless in our pursuit of scientific progress and in tackling unmet medical needs, demonstrated by our legacy in oncology, overactive bladder and transplant and our impressive pipeline in women's health, blindness and regeneration, genetic regulation, immuno-oncology, mitochondria and targeted protein degradation.

About Us:

We are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of more than 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries around the world. We are in the Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.

In Canada, we are growing to meet the exciting opportunities realized by our legacy brands and rich pipeline of innovative treatments.

We are looking for candidates who will thrive in our entrepreneurial and empowering environment where talent and leadership flourish. Do your values align with our Astellas Way - patient focus, ownership, results, openness and integrity? Then we would love to hear from you.

From the first day in role, everyone at Astellas has a responsibility for creating a brighter future for patients around the world. We nurture exceptional relationships with our employees to allow them to thrive, foster innovation, and deliver exceptional business results. We work to create a culture where our people feel empowered to pursue brave ideas and ambitious outcomes, to have the confidence to be accountable for a higher standard of performance and embody a competitive and solutions-oriented mindset.

Our expertise, science and technology make us a pharma company. Our open and diverse culture is what makes us uniquely Astellas.

Astellas Pharma Canada (APCA) is currently searching for an Attack Surface Management Lead reporting to Lead SecOps & Incident Response.

Description:

Astellas have a vacancy for a Senior Vulnerability Manager within the Cyber Security Operations team.

The Vulnerability Manager will take responsibility for identifying, understanding, managing, and communicating risks to the business because of software and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

The successful candidate will work with owners of internally developed software, 3rd party software, and on-premise/cloud infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities within the Iceland environment. They will then use their vulnerability management experience to provide a prioritized understanding of risks posed to the business by these vulnerabilities.

The Vulnerability Manager will be given leeway to further evolve the vulnerability management process based upon their experience.

Essential Job Duties:

Responsibility for continuous vulnerability scanning, and the management of periodic independent vulnerability assessments will be within the remit of the Vulnerability Manager. Providing assurance of effective and comprehensive patch management will also form part of this role.

Quantitative Dimensions:

• An in-depth understanding of what security vulnerabilities are, how they are categorized, how they can be remediated, and what risks they pose is essential.

• The ability to be able to prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities based on threat intelligence and business context is essential.

• You will be highly competent in producing meaningful reports and communicating to relevant stakeholders.

• Experience of working with Microsoft Defender and reputable SAST, SCA, and CSPM tools is highly desirable.

• You will be completely comfortable with productivity tools for documentation, presentation, and data analysis.

• A high degree of understanding in patch management and security configuration management is required.

• Experience of performing and/or managing penetration testing is advantageous.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 10 years’ experience managing scanning, patching and vulnerably management

• Experience of working closing with outsourced vendors and global deliver teams

• Experience of use scanning tools like Quals and Tenable to develop remediation plans for cloud and on-prem DC’s

• Ability to present to leadership at CISO level meetings

• CISM or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enhanced vulnerability tool qualification

Additional Information:

Astellas Pharma Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the hiring process.

Astellas Pharma Canada requires full Vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Reasonable accommodation to this policy may be granted for a valid accommodation request under human rights legislation.

No telephone inquiries, in-person applications, or agencies please. While we appreciate all applications, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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Astellas is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.

EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans