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Berry Global: Building Cybersecurity Leadership at Speed

Delivering urgent, high-stakes talent transformation in under 60 days 

Industry Challenge

Berry Global, a $10B leader in packaging and manufacturing, faced mounting cybersecurity challenges and rapid growth. With only one HR recruiter supporting the IT team, the company needed a complete talent function overhaul.

 

The security team had no director-level leadership, and most staff were generalists without defined roles.The CISO had a future-state org chart for a technological transformation but no clear path to fill it. Berry needed to stand up a full high-value leadership layer to lead them through technological and structural transitions and secure critical technical specialists quickly.

Challenge:

  • Urgent cybersecurity overhaul in response to recent breaches and audit findings
  • Understaffed existing team and limited HR capacity
  • Company-wide technology transformation

Results:

  • 20+ hires in <60 days
  • 4 director-level leaders
  • Doubled team capacity across 5 Acacia-identified security domains
  • Avg. 2 candidate submissions per hire

Acacia Approach

Berry engaged Acacia to own the entire recruitment lifecycle, from role scoping through offer acceptance, without adding load to their lone IT HR team recruiter. To bring the partnership to life, Acacia quickly developed a path forward.

Role definition, Intake, sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing, and offer management led by Acacia, with the HR team only managing administrative work.

100% proactive sourcing with filters for location, domain expertise, and soft skill fit.

Insights on local layoffs, salary bands, and candidate availability.

Disclosed merger risk, positioning roles as high reward with long-term upside.

Weekly check-ins with the CISO ensured rapid iteration and decisions.

each closed role had an average of 2 candidate submissions, reflecting Acacia’s selective targeting and match accuracy.

Aligned to future-state org design

Acacia built out leadership and SME roles across five domains to address their existing strategic challenges and future-proof the team

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

Security Operations

Engineering & Architecture

Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM)

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