Head of Cyber Security

Fujitsu Careers; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension – double matching up to 10%

Life assurance

Company-wide incentive plans

Flexible benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

Fujitsu UK is seeking a Head of Cyber Security to define and drive the organisation’s security strategy, governance and operational resilience. You will lead a high‑impact function, translating security risk into business decisions while supporting growth, client confidence and regulatory obligations.

You will shape security capabilities, manage key stakeholder relationships, and champion secure by design across platforms, products and services.

Qualifications

• Senior cyber security leadership with accountability for strategy, risk, operations and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience shaping security strategy and embedding security into business change.
• Proven ability to communicate complex security issues to executives and boards.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the cyber security strategy and multi-year roadmaps.
• Identify, assess and communicate cyber risk at executive level.
• Oversee security operations, vulnerability management and incident response.
• Lead governance, compliance, audit activity and security culture across the organisation.

Skills

Cyber security leadership

Strategic planning

Governance & compliance

Incident response leadership

Security operations

Risk management

Executive communication

Security architecture

Education

CISSP/CISM/CRISC desirable

Job description

Location Flexibility: Primary Location Only

Posting Start Date: 9/2/26

At Fujitsu, our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. Founded in Japan in 1935, Fujitsu has been a pioneer in technology and innovation for decades. Today, as a world-leading digital transformation partner, we are committed to transforming business and society in the digital age.

With approximately 130,000 employees across over 50 countries, Fujitsu offers a broad range of products, services, and solutions. We collaborate with our customers to co-create solutions that drive enterprise-wide digitalization while actively working to address social issues and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Head of Cyber Security is a leadership role reporting to the Director of Strategy & Operations. The person will be accountable for defining and delivering the organisation’s cyber security strategy, overseeing enterprise security operations, and ensuring cyber risk is understood, managed, and governed at the highest level. Enterprise scope includes interleaving strategy and planning with Fujitsu Servies Ltd UK leadership intent, supporting the Board’s formal commitment to the UK Government Cyber Resilience Pledge. The role provides visible leadership across the business, translating complex security issues into clear commercial, operational, and strategic decisions that protect the organisation while enabling growth, resilience, and customer confidence.

Leadership Purpose

• Provide strategic, credible, and inspiring leadership for cyber security across the organisation, shaping how security is understood, prioritised, and embedded by internal stakeholders, customers, and external partners.
• Set a clear vision for what excellent cyber security looks like and create the conditions for teams to deliver it consistently.
• Build confidence with customers and senior stakeholders through clear articulation of security strategy, priorities, and outcomes.
• Support strategic growth by contributing authoritative security leadership to customer engagements, bids, and executive discussions.
• Influence the wider organisation to adopt consistent security principles, effective governance, and a shared understanding of risk and accountability.
• Represent the organisation externally as a trusted security leader through industry engagement, customer dialogue, and executive advocacy.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Roadmap: Define and lead the organisation’s cyber security strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring security priorities are aligned to business objectives, customer expectations, and regulatory obligations.
• Enterprise Risk Leadership: Identify, assess, and communicate cyber risk at executive level, ensuring that material risks are understood, prioritised, and managed through appropriate controls and governance.
• Secure by Design: Champion the integration of security into business change, technology platforms, product development, and operational processes from the outset.
• Customer Confidence & Strategic Growth: Build confidence with customers and senior stakeholders by clearly articulating security strategy, priorities, and outcomes, and provide authoritative security leadership to customer engagements, bids, and executive discussions that support strategic growth.

2. Security Operations & Incident Response

• Incident Leadership: Provide senior leadership during major cyber incidents, acting as the executive point of escalation and ensuring effective coordination, decision-making, and recovery.
• Operational Assurance: Oversee core security operations including vulnerability management, threat detection, security testing, and monitoring to maintain an effective and resilient control environment.
• Security Capability: Direct the investment, performance, and continuous improvement of security tooling and services to meet evolving business and threat requirements.

3. Governance, Compliance & Auditing

• Governance & Compliance: Ensure the organisation maintains effective security governance and compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and industry requirements.
• Audit & Assurance: Lead internal and external assurance activity, oversee remediation of findings, and maintain productive relationships with auditors, customers, and external security partners.
• Leadership & Talent: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing cyber security function, setting clear expectations, strengthening capability, and fostering accountability and professional growth.
• Culture & Awareness: Promote a strong security culture across the organisation by increasing awareness, clarifying responsibilities, and embedding good security behaviours into day-to-day operations.
• Leadership Experience: Significant experience in a senior cyber security leadership role within a complex organisation, with accountability for strategy, risk, operations, and stakeholder engagement.
• Technical Credibility: Strong understanding of modern cyber security principles, technologies, and threat landscapes, with the judgement to balance technical risk against business priorities.
• Executive Communication: Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, customers, and Boards by translating technical issues into clear business impact, risk, and decision points.
• Professional Standing: Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CRISC are desirable, together with evidence of continued professional development and external credibility in the field.
• National Security Vetting: Able to achieve and maintain a high level of UK Security Clearance.
• Knowledge Base: Familiarity with UK Government and UK Ministry of Defence cyber security strategy, initiatives and policy.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer:

Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader , a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric:

Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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At Fujitsu, we are committed to an inclusive recruitment process that values the diverse backgrounds and experiences of all applicants. We believe that hiring people from a wide variety of backgrounds makes us stronger, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it allows us to draw on a wider range of perspectives and life experiences.

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Role dependent benefits: Private medical/ company car or car allowance