Grc Lead

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a GRC Lead to steer cyber security governance, risk, and compliance across a multi-supplier environment. You will oversee supplier governance activities, ensuring risks, controls, and assurance are consistently managed and reported.

This role interfaces with suppliers, security functions, service teams, and client stakeholders to drive risk-informed decision making and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in cyber security governance, risk management, compliance, or GRC leadership roles.
• Experience working in multi-supplier or SIAM environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and governance leadership skills.
• Experience presenting risk and compliance information to senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of ISO27001, NIST, and NCSC.

Responsibilities

• Security Governance Leadership.
• Reporting & Executive Engagement.

Skills

Cyber security governance

Risk management

Compliance

GRC leadership

SIAM environments

Stakeholder engagement

Executive reporting

ISO27001

NIST

GRC platforms

Tools

ServiceNow GRC

Archer

Job description

The GRC Lead operates within the Operational Integrator (OI) function and is responsible for leading cyber security governance, risk, and compliance activities across a multi-supplier (SIAM) environment.

The role provides oversight and coordination of supplier security governance activities, ensuring risks, controls, compliance obligations, and assurance requirements are consistently managed and reported.

Acting as a key interface between suppliers, security functions, service management teams, and client stakeholders, the Security GRC Lead enables effective security governance, risk-informed decision making, and regulatory compliance.

The role provides a consolidated view of security risk, control effectiveness, and compliance posture across the service ecosystem while driving accountability and continual improvement.

This is a governance, risk, compliance, and assurance leadership role and does not perform operational security monitoring, vulnerability remediation, incident response, or security engineering activities.

Locations are Frimley, Preston and Inverness: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

Key Responsibilities

• Security Governance Leadership
• Reporting & Executive Engagement

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience in Cyber Security Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, or GRC leadership roles
• Experience working in multi-supplier or SIAM environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and governance leadership skills
• Experience presenting risk and compliance information to senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of Industry certifications and frameworks, i.e. ISO27001, NIST, NCSC
• Experience within Defence, Government, Critical National Infrastructure, or regulated industries
• Experience with GRC platforms such as ServiceNow GRC, Archer, or equivalent

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Your security clearance and pre-employment checks

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain .

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Flexibility to work your way

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Shape your path

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Shared energy

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why should you consider Capgemini?

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.