Head of Cyber Security

About Cyber Security at Holland & Barrett
- The Role

The Head of Cyber Security and Deputy CISO is a senior level executive, reporting to the CISO, who is responsible for the highly effective and smooth operational execution excellence across all areas of H&B Security. This is a very hands-on role, with the key responsibility to create a highly collaborative environment between all H&B Security teams and all relevant business stakeholders.

Strategy creation and execution are key requirements, together with a strong passion for Cyber Security and its amazing ability to make a real difference in protecting customers, partners and employees. Although desirable, existing cyber security and incident response experience is NOT a key requirement.

Here are the key attitudes and experience that are relevant to this role (not all are needed):

- leadership experience
- effective communication and presentation skills
- passion for creating teams that are highly motivated, focused, productive, with a strong work-life balance
- senior stakeholder management
- ability to translate highly complex concepts into audience-specific and targeted materials (i.e. easy to understand by that audience)
- engineering experience, namely on how to effectively use technology to scale and automate process
- managing large teams, namely on how to align teams on common objectives and key results
- passion for data visualization and visual communications
- being a ‘Town Planner', by knowing how to take products/services and commoditized them (Town Planner as defined by Wardley Mapping)
- The Person

**Who are you?**

We are looking for individuals that want to work for:

- a company that is making a positive impact in the world (H&B is making the world healthier),
- a company where you will make a real difference (H&B is going through an amazing digital transformation programme)
- a security team that is growing and innovating (H&B Security has an amazing vision and objectives

Here some more attributes we are looking for:

- Looking for next challenge
- Curious
- Highly Motivated
- Effective Manager of high pressured teams
- Want to make the difference
- Want to build something worthwhile
- Want to make the world safer

**Areas of responsibility**:
Supported by an experience team, best in class technology and highly qualified 3rd parties, here are the areas of responsibility for this role:

- Security strategy improvement and execution
- Overall security architecture and roadmap of appropriate security technologies
- Ensuring that Privacy and Trust are at the center of all H&B Security activities
- Ensure all H&B teams are in a healthy state, with effective team management, personal development plans, training and work life balance
- Managing internal H&B operations and services
- Deploying H&B Security services to the wider business (services delivered by the multiple H&B Security teams)
- Ensure regulatory compliance across all functions and 3rd party suppliers
- Drive continuous hiring processes and talent discovery
- Manage budgets and drive financial visibility and accountability across all H&B Security functions
- Drive the wide use of Automation and visualization/dashboards across all H&B Security activities
- Align H&B Security ways of working and continuous improvement plans, with the best-practices and guidance provided by the H&B Product and Continuous Improvement teams
- Drive the adoption of Wardley Maps, namely: Mapping, Doctrine, Climatic Patterns and Game Play

**How to Apply**

To make the selection process fairer and more objective, we don't to use CVs as the sole data point in making the initial selection decision.

Here are other important videos to view for inspiration and guidance:

- Michael(CEO) and Dinis (CISO) on H&B vision and Data Security
- Sathya (CTO) and Dinis (CISO) on H&B Engineering Journey and Security focus
- Dobo (CDO) and Dinis (CISO) on H&B Data Journey and Security focus
- Katya (CPO) and Dinis (CISO) on H&B Products and Security focus
- Head of Incident Response - JD Walkthrough
- Benefits

**Technology** Incentive Scheme** - we offer different bonus schemes for all grades in Technology, starting at 10%.

**Learning and **Development** opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.

**Career progression**

**Pension company **contribution**

✈️ Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take **28 or 33 Days Holiday **per year.

**Refer and Earn Scheme** - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.

**Epic Extras** gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.

Stay healthy with **Discounted Products**:

- from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.

We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer **Free 24/7 **Confidential** Advice & Colleague Welfare.**

**Mental Health