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Founded in 2014 with headquarters in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also, Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.\nThe Job in a Nutshell\nWe are looking for a Global Cybersecurity GRC Manager to manage and coordinate cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance activities across the Foodics Group under the direction of the CISO. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the GRC program translating cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory obligations, and business risks into practical controls, clear ownership, measurable remediation plans, and decision-ready reporting. This is a high-visibility, cross-functional role working closely with Cybersecurity, Technology, Product, Legal, Privacy, Internal Audit, and business teams across the group, while supporting Foodics Pay cybersecurity compliance activities where required.\nWhat you will do\nManage and coordinate the group cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance program under the direction of the CISO, including day-to-day GRC activities, priorities, operating cadence, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nConduct, coordinate, and track gap assessments against ISO 27001, SOC 2, NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, KSA PDPL, and other applicable cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and contractual requirements.\nTranslate regulatory and framework requirements into practical controls, implementation actions, accountable owners, target dates, and measurable evidence requirements.\nMaintain the cybersecurity policy framework, including policies, standards, procedures, control owners, supporting evidence, review cycles, approved exceptions, and related governance records.\nOwn and maintain the cybersecurity risk register, facilitate risk assessments, and drive follow-up on treatment plans, risk acceptance, and overdue actions with business and technology owners.\nMonitor control implementation and remediation progress, challenge weak or incomplete responses, and escalate material risks, recurring gaps, and overdue actions when necessary.\nCoordinate internal audits, external audits, customer cybersecurity due diligence, certification activities, and readiness assessments, ensuring requests and evidence are handled consistently and efficiently.\nSupport Foodics cybersecurity compliance activities where required, including control mapping, evidence coordination, remediation tracking, audit support, and management reporting.\nPrepare cybersecurity GRC dashboards, KPIs, KRIs, risk summaries, compliance status reports, and materials for management and cybersecurity governance committees.\nPartner with control owners across Technology, Product, Operations, HR, Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and other functions to embed cybersecurity requirements into business processes and initiatives.\nMaintain a clear compliance calendar and ensure recurring assessments, reviews, evidence collection, policy updates, risk reviews, and audit commitments are completed within agreed timelines.\nImprove the efficiency and quality of the GRC program through standardized templates, control libraries, automation, tooling, and stronger evidence-management practices.\nWhat Are We Looking For\nRequired\n10+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, audit, or a closely related field, with demonstrated experience managing enterprise GRC activities and working with senior cybersecurity leadership.\nStrong hands-on knowledge of ISO 27001 and SOC 2, with practical experience conducting gap assessments, mapping controls, collecting evidence, and driving remediation to 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