What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Security and Compliance Head position at KEMET Electronics Corporation?
KEMET, a YAGEO company, is seeking a Global Security and Compliance Head located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida or Simpsonville, South Carolina. This position is an onsite role. With over 100 years of technological innovation, we help make a wide variety of products possible in the world's most rapidly expanding industries. Our components are found in spacecrafts and defibrillators - from outer space to inside our bodies, and in products we use every day. We have the broadest selection of capacitor technologies in the industry, including an expanding range of electromechanical devices and electromagnetic compatibility solutions.
Position Summary:
The Global Security and Compliance Head is responsible for implementing and overseeing the Group’s information security program. This includes identifying, evaluating, mitigating, and reporting on risks related to legal, regulatory, IT, and cybersecurity matters affecting information assets, while supporting and advancing business objectives.
The Global Security and Compliance Head is a strategic and visionary leader with expertise in both business management and cybersecurity technologies. This role spans the protection of the corporate network as well as the broader digital ecosystem across sales and manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include establishing and maintaining the information security program to ensure that information assets, technologies, applications, systems, infrastructure, and manufacturing processes are adequately protected.
A key element of the role is to collaborate with executive management to define acceptable risk levels for the organization. The role will proactively engage with business units to implement practices aligned with agreed policies and standards for information security.
The Global Security and Compliance Head also requires strong knowledge of both internal and external business environments to ensure that information systems maintain secure, resilient, and operational, while maintaining compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
Essential Job Duties
YAGEO does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, political affiliation, union membership, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, marital status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law, in making employment decisions including but not limited to hiring, wages, promotions, rewards, and access to training. Qualified applicants and workers shall be provided with reasonable accommodation for disability and religious practices.
About YAGEO Group
We don’t build the final product.
We build what makes it possible.
From resistors to capacitors, inductors to sensors—our components power the breakthroughs that move the world forward.
Electric vehicles. AI data centers. Satellites. Sonar systems.
They move faster, last longer, reach farther—with a spark of us inside.
Headquartered in Taiwan, YAGEO Group unites multiple trusted brands—including YAGEO, KEMET, PULSE, and Telemecanique Sensors and more—into one cohesive force for innovation.
40,000 employees. 100 locations. 20 R&D centers. 2,000 patents. 273,000 customers.
#1 in resistors and tantalum capacitors.
#3 in MLCCs & inductors
We don't just participate in the future—we enable it.
Why Work at YAGEO Group?
Meaningful work: Every part you help design, test, or improve contributes to real-world innovations.
Global exposure: Collaborate across continents, brands, and breakthrough technologies.
Accelerated growth: With our size, diversity, and momentum, there’s no ceiling for where you can go.
Built-in purpose: You’re not just part of the process—you’re part of the progress.
YAGEO Group. Built into Tomorrow.
Learn more at https://www.yageogroup.com/. #FollowUs for updates!
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Position Summary:
The Global Security and Compliance Head is responsible for implementing and overseeing the Group’s information security program. This includes identifying, evaluating, mitigating, and reporting on risks related to legal, regulatory, IT, and cybersecurity matters affecting information assets, while supporting and advancing business objectives.
The Global Security and Compliance Head is a strategic and visionary leader with expertise in both business management and cybersecurity technologies. This role spans the protection of the corporate network as well as the broader digital ecosystem across sales and manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include establishing and maintaining the information security program to ensure that information assets, technologies, applications, systems, infrastructure, and manufacturing processes are adequately protected.
A key element of the role is to collaborate with executive management to define acceptable risk levels for the organization. The role will proactively engage with business units to implement practices aligned with agreed policies and standards for information security.
The Global Security and Compliance Head also requires strong knowledge of both internal and external business environments to ensure that information systems maintain secure, resilient, and operational, while maintaining compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
Essential Job Duties
- Directs and provides a strategic risk management vision that scales globally to secure the business while enabling innovation and execution.
- Drives a strong security culture within the security department as well as organization-wide across management and employees.
- Influences internal and external stakeholders and provides best practice guidance based on the evolving threat landscape to safeguard intellectual property and ensure compliance.
- Defines key performance indicators and metrics aligned with business initiatives and communicates them effectively to non-technical audiences.
- Frequently engages with business groups to understand their plans, risk posture, and tolerance, and to demonstrate how information security can enable them to achieve their strategic objectives and
- Plays a key role in disaster recovery and business continuity planning and execution.
- Works closely with the Chief Information Officer and Chief Compliance Officer to safeguard virtual and physical assets and to ensure sufficient budget allocation.
- Analyzes opportunities for advancing security technologies to establish effective solutions that prevent and detect advanced threats across company networks and systems.
- Reports regularly to senior management, keeping them informed of the evolving threat landscape as well as the tactical controls and strategic plans to strengthen organizational resilience.
- Oversees and ensures independent verification and validation testing of company networks and sensitive programs, leveraging both internal teams and external consultants.
- Optimizes and secures cloud infrastructure and applications that support a globally dispersed remote
- Oversees periodic security awareness training for all employees and allocates budget for security training of technical
- Oversee global security compliance programs, including TISAX certification for all manufacturing sites and compliance with other industry-specific security standards.
- Ensures adherence to relevant laws and regulations including GDPR, NIST, CMMC, and ISO 27001.
- 10 years’ management experience, with 5-8 years’ technical hands-on security, audit, and risk management practitioner experience. Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Security and Compliance solutions is highly preferred.
- Strong English written and oral communication skills across varying levels of the organization.
- Solid understanding of both IT and OT security environments, including their unique risks and control requirements
- Highly focused on building and implementing a strong, cohesive team and security culture.
- Proven experience in a global enterprise environment is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field is required; a master’s degree or higher is preferred.
- CISSP or CISM strongly preferred; ISSMP or CCISO considered a plus.
YAGEO does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, political affiliation, union membership, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, marital status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law, in making employment decisions including but not limited to hiring, wages, promotions, rewards, and access to training. Qualified applicants and workers shall be provided with reasonable accommodation for disability and religious practices.
About YAGEO Group
We don’t build the final product.
We build what makes it possible.
From resistors to capacitors, inductors to sensors—our components power the breakthroughs that move the world forward.
Electric vehicles. AI data centers. Satellites. Sonar systems.
They move faster, last longer, reach farther—with a spark of us inside.
Headquartered in Taiwan, YAGEO Group unites multiple trusted brands—including YAGEO, KEMET, PULSE, and Telemecanique Sensors and more—into one cohesive force for innovation.
40,000 employees. 100 locations. 20 R&D centers. 2,000 patents. 273,000 customers.
#1 in resistors and tantalum capacitors.
#3 in MLCCs & inductors
We don't just participate in the future—we enable it.
Why Work at YAGEO Group?
Meaningful work: Every part you help design, test, or improve contributes to real-world innovations.
Global exposure: Collaborate across continents, brands, and breakthrough technologies.
Accelerated growth: With our size, diversity, and momentum, there’s no ceiling for where you can go.
Built-in purpose: You’re not just part of the process—you’re part of the progress.
YAGEO Group. Built into Tomorrow.
Learn more at https://www.yageogroup.com/. #FollowUs for updates!
#Electronics #Innovation #TechCareers #WeAreHiring
