Resilience Crisis Lead

iberdrola; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days annual leave

Holiday purchase option

Share Incentive Plan

Sharesave Scheme

Payroll giving and charity matched

Technology Vouchers

Carbon footprint reduction initiative

Electric Vehicle schemes

Cycle to Work scheme

Dental insurance options

Private medical insurance option

Health assessments

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Financial wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Job summary

SP Energy Networks, part of the Iberdrola Group, is seeking a Cyber & Resilience Crisis Management Lead in Glasgow. The role focuses on crisis management, exercising and resilience across IT, OT and critical services. Hybrid work with three in-office days per week.

You will work with cyber security, risk, business continuity and leadership to ensure plans, playbooks and response processes stay fit-for-purpose, tested and compliant. Engaging executives and facilit at ing exercises is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security, operational resilience, crisis management or related field.
• Strong understanding of cyber threats, incident response and resilience principles.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Influence how SP Energy Networks prepares for disruptive events, driving resilience through planning, training, exercises and continuous improvement.
• Support the development of crisis management framework, ensuring plans and playbooks are tested and aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate crisis response activities, support major incidents and facilitate exercises and workshops to embed resilience culture.

Job description

Resilience Crisis Lead

Location: Glasgow

Salary: £59-74K (plus up to 15% bonus, private healthcare & double-matched pension).

Permanent, Hybrid (3 days in office per week)

Help us create a better future, quicker
Join SP Energy Networks and play a key role in strengthening our ability to respond to cyber incidents, operational disruptions and emerging threats. As Cyber & Resilience Crisis Management Lead, you will help shape and deliver our crisis management, exercising and resilience programmes across IT, Operational Technology and critical business services.

What you'll be doing

This is an opportunity to influence how a major Critical National Infrastructure organisation prepares for and responds to disruptive events. Working with teams across cyber security, operational technology, risk, business continuity and senior leadership, you will drive resilience through planning, training, exercises and continuous improvement.

You will support the development of SPEN's crisis management framework, ensuring plans, playbooks and response processes remain effective, tested and aligned with regulatory requirements and industry best practice. The role will also involve coordinating crisis response activities, supporting major incidents, facilitating exercises and workshops, and helping the organisation learn and improve from real-world events and simulations.

What you'll bring

We're looking for someone with experience in cyber security, operational resilience, crisis management, emergency planning or a related field. You will have a strong understanding of cyber threats, incident response and resilience principles, along with experience coordinating activities across multiple teams and stakeholders. Confidence in facilitating exercises, engaging senior leaders and producing clear reports and briefing materials is essential.

Knowledge of the NIS Regulations, the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and operational resilience practices will be highly valued. Experience within energy, utilities or other Critical National Infrastructure environments would be beneficial, as would exposure to cyber incident response, crisis communications or working with regulators and industry bodies.

This role requires a proactive and organised individual who can remain calm under pressure, build strong relationships and help embed a culture of resilience across the organisation. In return, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the security and reliability of critical energy infrastructure while working with a diverse network of internal and external partners.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously. We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet p