Chapter Lead - Security Business Partnering Manager

Tesco Mobile Ltd; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Holiday 25 days + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity/adoption leave (26 weeks)

Virtual GP & EAP

Flexible blended office/remote work

Job summary

Tesco Mobile Ltd. is seeking a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead) to shape how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape.

You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up—empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance, and is based in the UK

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior security role across a broad range of domains.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Deep understanding of secure development practices and cloud environments.
• Experience embedding security into engineering workflows (DevSecOps/SSDLC).
• Awareness of frontier AI cyber capabilities and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing Security Partners team.
• Translate complex security challenges into clear, actionable insights.
• Influence across product, engineering and business units to embed security.
• Promote an AI-first mindset and reduce risk with frontier technologies.

Skills

Senior security experience

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Secure development practices

DevSecOps

AI governance

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Cyber Security Chapter head at Tesco Mobile as a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead). An exciting opportunity where you will play a critical role in shaping how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape. You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up—empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance.

If you are looking for a role where you can influence, leader, and make a real impact then

This role can be based in any of our 3 head offices (Slough, Welwyn Garden City or Manchester). Occasional travel to the other offices may be required and is expensable. Tesco Mobile currently operate a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 2 days per week collaborating with colleagues at an office, Store, or Supplier location. This role has potential for career growth or learning opportunities for the right person

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Cyber Security Chapter head at Tesco Mobile as a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead). An exciting opportunity where you will play a critical role in shaping how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape. You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up—empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance.

If you are looking for a role where you can influence, leader, and make a real impact then

This role can be based in any of our 3 head offices (Slough, Welwyn Garden City or Manchester). Occasional travel to the other offices may be required and is expensable. Tesco Mobile currently operate a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 2 days per week collaborating with colleagues at an office, Store, or Supplier location. This role has potential for career growth or learning opportunities for the right person

You will be responsible for

As a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead), you will play a critical role in shaping how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape. You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up—empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance.

This is not a traditional “assurance” role—this is about influence, leadership, and impact. You will act as a trusted advisor, translating complex security challenges into clear, actionable insights that drive better business outcomes. At the same time, you will lead and grow a team of Security Partners, building capability and creating a culture where security is seen as a shared responsibility.

This is a leadership role requiring a balance of both strategic vision and operational execution. The successful candidate will build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, while ensuring alignment with broader organisational risk and security objectives.

A key aspect of the role is leveraging frontier AI technologies to reduce risk across the business and with our partners. This includes developing a high-performing team, promoting an automation & AI-first mindset, and ensuring you enable the business as a trusted innovation partner.

We are an Agile business organised around cross functional end-to-end squads, which are then grouped into Tribes and Centres of Excellence (CoE). This role will require collaboration across all areas of the business, so how you work is just as important as what you do. You should be just as comfortable solving complex technical challenges, as you are educating others and enabling the business, while always thinking customer first.

You will need

• Proven experience in a senior security role across a broad range of domains
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Deep understanding of secure development practices, modern architectures, and cloud environments
• Experience embedding security into engineering workflows (e.g. DevSecOps, SSDLC)
• Ability to identify, assess, and communicate security risks in business terms
• An ambition to constantly learn new skills and develop knowledge, with a specific focus on monitoring developments in frontier AI cyber capabilities
• Attention to detail andgreat communicationskills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams, while influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption across engineering and business units
• Keen to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.

• Shouldbe passionate about improving ways of working and best practices by understanding the customer.

Nice to haves

• Experience operating in large, complex or fast-paced organisations
• Have awareness and understanding of current cyber security threats,actorsand their techniques.
• Experience defining security strategy or leading transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of relevant security & AI governance frameworks andregulations, such asMitreATT&CK, NIST, TSA.
• Any relevantstudy or certifications, either formal or self-learning.

Whats in it for you?

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.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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About Us

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we’re the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We’re proud to have an inclusive culture that’s uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we’ve embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology – it’s a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do – allowing us to respond at pace to our customers’ needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities.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. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.