Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Tesco Mobile

Are you ready to step into a CISO position? Tesco Mobile is seeking a dedicated Security professional to join as their Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who will have a significant role in crafting the future of our cyber security landscape. This is an outstanding opportunity to lead a world-class cyber security strategy within a dynamic and evolving business environment. By joining Tesco Mobile, you will be at the forefront of ensuring flawless security measures that protect our customers and business operations.

You will report to Tesco Mobile's General Counsel and be part of our Cyber Security Chapter. You will collaborate with experts from Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, and Risk Management within our Business Integrity Centre of Excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Be the face of security. Cultivate positive relationships, promote security, and discover opportunities for security to make valuable contributions within the business.
• Understand the security posture of the business and its processes in order to effectively engage them in the security improvement recommendations and cyber risk management
• Be responsible for leading the cyber security strategy within the business and present risk-based security position and recommendations to management and executive teams
• Drive the information security improvement plans which includes incorporating Tesco Group security requirements
• Ensure adequate registration, analysis, resolution and reporting of privacy and information security incidents
• Craft and coordinate information security assessments, pen testing, reviews and audits
• Provide technical oversight of all security tooling and infrastructure services in use; Make recommendations on configuration and implementation improvements
• Own third party vendor management for security services
• Monitor and respond to emerging threat patterns, vulnerabilities and anomalies
• Responsible for collaborating with the Tesco Group Security Operations team to help ensure the entire Tesco Group are protected against emerging threats
• Ensure sufficient security assurance between collaborators (i.e. Tesco, Tesco Mobile, and Virgin Media O2) regarding cyber security for Virgin Media O2.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in Cyber/Information Security to effectively collaborate with and support various collaborators
• Strong working knowledge of security management principles and practices, including vulnerability management, event management, application security, Identity management, incident response
• Excellent collaborator and ability to inspire change
• Demonstrated ability to engage with a diverse set of collaborators and foster a security culture
• Detail-oriented individual with a strong analytical background
• Ideally previously hands on role in one of these domains, networks, sysadmin, software developer, security analyst
• Security qualifications such as CISM, CISSP, CISA or equivalent 

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.