Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

128,300 - 156,800

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

15%

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

Join the Partner Solutions (PSI) team as a Manager, Cyber Defense & Strategy. In this role, you will define the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap to strengthen PSI’s cyber resilience—translating business priorities and the evolving threat landscape into actionable defensive capabilities and measurable outcomes. You will lead a team focused on secure architecture and platform engineering, data protection, security control testing, and penetration testing coordination, while partnering closely with the other security teams to ensure an integrated, end-to-end defense posture. 

What you'll do here:

• Set the vision for the Cyber Defense & Strategy function and translate it into a multi-year roadmap across secure architecture & platform engineering, data protection, security control testing, and penetration testing coordination. 

• Establish a clear operating model, service objectives, and success metrics; continuously mature capabilities, processes, and tooling to improve resilience and reduce risk. 

• Drive a structured capability maturity plan (people, process, technology), prioritizing initiatives based on risk reduction, business needs, and the threat landscape. 

• Define and implement secure-by-design architecture standards and scalable engineering patterns, embedding security across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem platforms in partnership with key stakeholders. 

• Lead the implementation of security controls across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem platforms, partnering with cloud service team to deploy, validate, and continuously improve controls aligned to risk and measurable outcomes. 

• Own the evolution of data protection capabilities by translating business and regulatory requirements into guardrails and controls and validating effectiveness over time. 

• Build and run a robust security control testing and assurance program to verify control effectiveness, support compliance needs, and deliver evidence-based reporting. 

• Plan and coordinate penetration tests and external assessments: define scope and rules of engagement, oversee vendors, track remediation, and drive re-testing to closure. 

• Provide leadership through ambiguity and during high-severity events by ensuring clear decision-making, stakeholder communications, and executive-ready reporting in coordination with incident response leaders. 

• Align cross-functional partners around priorities by communicating risk in business terms, building consensus, and driving decisions to closure. 

What you bring to the table: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and experience). 

• 10 years of information security / cybersecurity experience, including 3 years managing technical teams. 

• Strong experience across core cybersecurity domains, including network & infrastructure security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, security governance/risk/compliance, security architecture, encryption, and data protection. 

• Demonstrated ability to translate cyber risk into strategy and execution—building roadmaps, defining measurable outcomes, and driving delivery across stakeholders. 

• Experience operating in heterogeneous, complex environments spanning cloud, SaaS, and on-premises technologies. 

• Strong leadership, problem-solving, analytical thinking, decision-making, and communication skills, including the ability to influence across diverse teams and lead through crises. 

• Ability to prepare and present clear, compelling materials to communicate complex concepts and drive stakeholder alignment. 

• Recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or GSEC are an asset. 

• Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with an English-speaking clientele and colleagues across the country. 

• No Canadian work experience required; candidates must be eligible to work in Canada. 

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Il s'agit d'un nouveau rôle au sein de notre équipe en plein croissance | This role is a new member of our growing team.

We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.