Senior Manager, GRC

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Job Summary

This role is responsible for enabling risk-informed decision making, clear accountability, and consistent control governance across business, IT, cloud, and third-party environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong judgment, the ability to operate across organizational boundaries, and experience building and scaling GRC capabilities in complex environments.

Duties and Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)

• Establishing and operating the enterprise cybersecurity risk management program, including risk identification, prioritization, and tracking
• Defining and enforcing risk acceptance, escalation, and accountability frameworks
• Developing executive and board-level risk reporting aligned to business impact
• Defining and governing cybersecurity policies, standards, and control frameworks aligned to industry standard frameworks·
• Ensuring consistent control implementation and enforcement across IT, cloud, and business environments
• Leading exception management processes to ensure risk is explicitly understood and accepted at the right levels
• Establishing and leading the third-party risk management program, including vendor tiering and assessments
• Coordinating regulatory and audit engagements (internal and external)
• Partnering across Security, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Procurement (among others as relevant) to align risk and control expectations· Establishing and governing the cybersecurity awareness and training program, ensuring it is aligned to enterprise risk and tailored user roles
• Overseeing control validation, testing, and assurance activities· Ensuring governance of vulnerability management, logging, and detection capabilities·
• Driving continuous improvement through risk insights, incident learnings, and control effectiveness reviews
• Managing and optimizing budget and resources to support governance, risk, and compliance capabilities

Education, Experience & Certifications

• 6–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity risk management
• Proven leadership experience in building, scaling, and maturing teams and operating models
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical risk into business impact and action
• Experience building or maturing GRC programs in complex organizations
• Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience supporting or leading SOX ITGC and/or application control environments in a complex organization
• Experience establishing or evolving security awareness and behavior change programs
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders
• Experience working with third-party risk, audit, and compliance functions

Functional Skills

• Proven leadership experience in building, scaling, and maturing teams and operating models
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical risk into business impact and action
• Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience supporting or leading SOX ITGC and/or application control environments in a complex organization
• Experience establishing or evolving security awareness and behavior change programs
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders
• Experience working with third-party risk, audit, and compliance functions

Our Values

• EVERYONE BELONGS – We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success.
• DO THE RIGHT THING –We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult.
• PEOPLE FIRST – To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first.
• INNOVATE TO WIN – We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do.
• HAVE FUN – We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together

Our Core Competencies

• EVERYONE BELONGS – We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success.
• DO THE RIGHT THING –We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult.
• PEOPLE FIRST – To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first.
• INNOVATE TO WIN – We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do.
• HAVE FUN – We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together

Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer.

Papa Johns is a federal contractor that participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. We also comply with all Right to Work requirements. Official E-Verify and Right to Work notices are available for applicants to review in both English and Spanish.

Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work – but let’s face it – it’s also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company that’s always moving forward, we’re the right place.

Papa John's is a Federal Contract employer who participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. For more information please view the following PDFs: E-Verify Poster (English) - Right to Work Poster (English) - E-Verify Poster (Spanish) - Right to Work Poster (Spanish) Papa John's is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information please click on the following PDF. See terms & conditions for site use.

About Us

At Papa John's, we LOVE pizza. It brings people together and brings out the best in all of us. Just like our ingredients and toppings, we combine in unique ways to deliver a truly tantalizing result. Here, you're a valued team member right from the start. We want you to contribute your best ideas, collaborate and keep building your skills.