Location: Remote/2 days per week in West–Midlands
Salary: GBP100,000 – GBP110,000 + Bonus + Pension + Health + Life Insurance + more
Reporting to: CIO
Mandate:
A pivotal leadership role reporting to the CIO, you will identify and mitigate cyber security risks and embed compliance and industry regulations and lead a small team of Cyber and Information Security SMEs.
Expectations:
- Accountable for Security operations to implement security controls, maintenance of security operations, and cyber crisis management
- Define and execute a framework of security controls including governance, policy, strategy and risk
- Collaborate with Data Protection Officer to ensure alignment and compliance between Cyber and Data impacts
- Facilitating effective Cyber advice and guidance to Transformation and Technology groups
- Oversee development of current and potential security threats to the organisation
- Provide threat intelligence to help mitigate vulnerabilities to security incidents
- Establish clear view of Information Security risk including policy, strategy and guidelines
- Drive strong Information Security culture and adoption across the organisation
- Inform the business of best practice and rules with cyber and Information Security processes
Skills Required:
- 10 years of leadership roles in Cyber Security, Information Security, Risk Management and Data Security
- Certified CISSP, CISM, SSCP, CompTIA Security+
- Information Security Frameworks including ISO, IEC 27001 and NIST
- Experience with security tools, technology and SOC
- Proven track record of establishing and influencing Information Security frameworks for enterprise organisations
- Significant experience of effectively influencing and collaborating with enterprise wide stakeholders and vendors
- Advocate for industry best practice standards, compliance and security standards
- Track record of contract and vendor negotiations
- Degree in Cyber Security or Information Security
If you are looking for an opportunity to step up into a Head of Cyber Security leading a small team of security experts this could be a great opportunity for you.