What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Security Manager position at Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC?
Your Job
The Cyber Security Manager guides Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) in managing enterprise cyber risk while supporting profitable growth, resilient operations, and confident technology adoption. This role partners across IT, Operations, Accounting and Commercial capabilities to keep security efforts visible, actionable, and aligned with business priorities—enabling resilience without slowing innovation.
This role is preferred to be based in our Headquarters in Wichita, KS.
Our Team
You will be part of a collaborative, cross-functional environment working closely with security, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams to strengthen cyber resilience and enable secure operations.
What You Will Do
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
The Cyber Security Manager guides Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) in managing enterprise cyber risk while supporting profitable growth, resilient operations, and confident technology adoption. This role partners across IT, Operations, Accounting and Commercial capabilities to keep security efforts visible, actionable, and aligned with business priorities—enabling resilience without slowing innovation.
This role is preferred to be based in our Headquarters in Wichita, KS.
Our Team
You will be part of a collaborative, cross-functional environment working closely with security, infrastructure, cloud, application, and business teams to strengthen cyber resilience and enable secure operations.
What You Will Do
- Lead exposure and vulnerability management by prioritizing risk and driving timely remediation across teams
- Drive AI-enabled transformation of threat detection and vulnerability management, improving speed, accuracy, and proactive risk mitigation
- Strengthen incident response readiness through defined roles, maintained playbooks, and regular exercises
- Reinforce governance, risk, and compliance practices through policy alignment, assessments, and issue follow-up
- Partner across infrastructure, applications, operations, and business teams to support secure technology delivery
- Track progress, report key risks and outcomes, escalate material issues, and drive continuous improvement
- Promote clear ownership, cross-functional alignment, and operational discipline across the security program
- Experience leading or coordinating cybersecurity or technology risk initiatives to include assessing, prioritizing, and driving remediation of cybersecurity risks
- Experience resolving cyber risk exposure, responding to cyber incident responses, or supporting cyber governance, risk, and compliance activities
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and align technical and non- technical
- Broad understanding of cyber security across technical, business, and compliance domains
- Knowledge of cyber incident response preparation, execution, and follow-up activities
- Experience supporting cyber governance, risk, and compliance practices
- Ability to build and communicate cyber risk insights through metrics, reporting, or dashboards
- Proven success driving adoption of security standards and practices across organizations
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or complex operational environments
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GICSP, CISM, cloud security certifications)
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).