Security Risk Manager - R0253471

TN United Kingdom; Cheadle; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Security Risk Manager to enhance organizational security and manage risk effectively. In this role, you will support the GRC Manager and engage with stakeholders to analyze security risks, develop reporting metrics, and promote security policies. With a focus on compliance and continuous improvement, you will help maintain security accreditations and deliver training. This position offers a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact the safety and security of operations. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and provides opportunities for growth and development.

Benefits

Performance Bonus

Pension Contributions

Stock Options

Training Budgets

Private Healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience in mid to senior-level strategic security risk management roles.
• Strong communication and engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the GRC Manager in delivering the strategy for security risk management.
• Analyze security risks and advise on mitigation strategies.
• Develop risk metrics and report to management.

Skills

Strategic Security Risk Management

ISO 31000

ISO 27005

ISO 27001

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

CRISC Certification

CSRM Certification

Job description

Location: Reading, United Kingdom

In fast-changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security, and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their careers with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries: Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security, and Space.

Your health and well-being matter to us, and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part-time hours, job sharing, home working, or flexible start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Security Risk Manager (R0253471)

Location: Crawley/Reading/Cheadle/Glasgow/Doncaster/Templecombe (Hybrid)

Role Summary: We have a unique opportunity for a Security Risk Manager to support Thales UK in identifying, assessing, promoting, liaising, and managing security risks. The role involves maintaining risk profiles against security compliance requirements and providing regular reports to stakeholders. The successful candidate will support ongoing management of security risks by promoting relevant policies, processes, and guidance to develop and maintain organizational maturity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the GRC Manager and the wider Corporate Security Office in delivering the relevant strategy and roadmap for Thales UK.
• Analyze technical, physical, environmental, and personnel security risks; advise stakeholders on risk assessments and controls.
• Develop and report on risk metrics to demonstrate correlations and highlight concerns to management.
• Assist business lines in assessing risks and advising on mitigation strategies.
• Promote security risk management policies and processes to improve security culture.
• Translate technical jargon into business-focused risk statements for senior management.
• Support maintaining the ISMS through promoting the risk process and controls.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of security controls and produce metrics.
• Support the achievement and maintenance of security accreditations such as ISO 27001, CE+, IPSA.
• Deliver training and awareness on risk management processes.
• Ensure compliance with industry-recognized security certifications.
• Maintain process documentation related to security risk management.
• Manage the GRC platform according to risk policy and process.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders across the organization.
• Report and improve metrics/dashboards, create monthly KRIs and KPIs.
• Identify new security risks in the context of legal, regulatory, and organizational changes.
• Collaborate with related processes like Threat Intelligence, Incident Management, and BCP/DR.
• Conduct educational workshops and contribute to security training campaigns.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in mid to senior-level strategic security risk management roles.
• Experience with security standards such as ISO 31000, ISO 27005, ISO 27001.
• Strong communication and engagement skills.
• Good analytical and reporting skills.
• Proven problem-solving abilities.
• Qualifications like CRISC, CSRM are beneficial but not essential.

Thales Benefits:

• Performance bonus, pension contributions, stock options.
• Training budgets, holiday entitlement, private healthcare, and more.

In line with Thales' security requirements, candidates will need to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, and employment/education history. Some roles may require security clearance.

Thales UK is committed to diversity and inclusion and will provide reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions.

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