Business Information Security Officer

Elsevier B.V.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading publishing and analytics company seeks a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) to drive cybersecurity initiatives, manage risks, and foster collaboration across technical teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in cybersecurity, strong communication abilities, and a clear understanding of information security compliance frameworks. This position promotes a healthy work/life balance and offers numerous wellbeing benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a BISO for several years.
• Experience in incident response and designing security strategies.

Responsibilities

• Driving information and cybersecurity awareness across the organization.
• Managing technical risk assessments and security projects.
• Providing leadership for integrating security strategy with business needs.

Skills

Cyber Security expertise

Risk management

Governance frameworks knowledge

Collaboration skills

Strong communication skills

Job description

As a BISO for our A&G or TIO markets, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing enterprise-wide information and security initiatives. You will deliver long-term improvements and benefits impacting our organizational goals focusing on risk management and cybersecurity defences.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Driving information, cyber and infrastructure security awareness and governance deep into the organization. This will involve aligning Business & Technology units with enterprise cybersecurity programs and objectives
• Providing a critical liaison role between the business unit and the Elsevier Cyber Security organization. This includes enhancing the level of collaboration and effective communications with key stakeholders/business units.
• Managing the oversight of technical risk assessments, such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, risk reviews for new applications, and third-party risk assessments. Leading, monitoring and managing security projects; provide expert guidance on security matters for other IT projects.
• Defining the information and infrastructure security utilizing a risk-based approach. Develop goals, training recommendations, strategies, plans, and success criteria needed to achieve the vision
• Developing and reporting cyber security metric scorecards to reflect the level of adoption and compliance to security policies/standards. Tasked with the remediation of vulnerabilities, and residual risks.
• Managing the oversight of technical risk assessments, such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, risk reviews for new applications. Leading, monitoring and managing security projects; provide expert guidance on security matters for other IT projects.
• Providing leadership and direction for the integration of security strategy and architecture with business and IT strategy. Evaluate and design the implementation of new or updated information security hardware or software. Analyse its impact on the existing environment.

  You will have experience as a BISO for several years.

• As a BISO, you can show strong collaboration and communication skills with technical teams like security, infrastructure, operations, and software engineering.
• You will have expertise in Cyber Security, including incident response, risk management, and governance, by developing innovative strategies and security programs.
• Demonstrate extensive understanding of Information Security compliance and governance frameworks such as ISO27001.
• You will have extensive experience in problem-solving involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

Benefits

These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work