UK Information Security Officer

Consortium; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Intrum, the Europe's leading credit management services provider, is seeking a UK Information Security Officer to safeguard a secure, compliant technology environment across the UK. You will coordinate security activities locality and collaborate with global security teams to ensure resilient operations.

In this role you will drive the Information Security Plan, manage risk and remediation, and promote security awareness across the UK business while supporting consumer duty outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in information or cyber security within a complex technology environment.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, ISO 22301, Cyber Essentials Plus and PCI-DSS.
• Experience with risk management, vulnerability management, incident response, remediation.
• Experience with security audits and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Understanding UK GDPR, data handling and security governance.
• Ability to translate security requirements to practical actions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key local contact for information security, supporting UK colleagues and working closely with Group security teams.
• Maintain and support delivery of the local Information Security Plan, including security reporting and compliance activity.
• Coordinate security controls, vulnerability management, penetration testing and remediation activity across the UK technology environment.
• Support local security incident responses, including investigation, escalation, communication, and completion of remediation actions.
• Coordinate security audits, risk assessments and third-party security reviews, ensuring identified risks and actions are appropriately managed.
• Help maintain secure configurations across infrastructure, networks, endpoints and cloud services, supporting operational resilience and business continuity.
• Promote information security awareness across the UK business, helping colleagues understand and adopt secure ways of working.
• Be devoted to the FCA principle of Consumer Duty, ensuring we are driving good customer outcomes across all aspects of services that have the potential to impact our customers.

Skills

Information security

Cyber security

Security controls

Stakeholder comms

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Maintain secure, compliant and resilient technology environment

Competitive salary and benefits package

Training and career progression opportunities

Supportive, inclusive and diverse workplace culture

The opportunities you want.

The freedom you deserve.

Are you our new UK Information Security Officer?

Are your ideas too big for where you are now? Bring your talent home to Intrum. Here you're not only surrounded by opportunities. You're supported with the right resources and all the freedom you need to put your fresh thinking into self-starting action. Discover how you'll grow by making a difference at Intrum here as a UK Information Security Officer.

As UK Information Security Officer at Intrum, working UK-wide, you'll play a key role in helping us maintain a secure, compliant and resilient technology environment. Acting as the local information security contact for the UK, you'll coordinate activity across the business, working closely with Group Information Security, Global Cyber Security, internal teams and external partners.

What you will do:

• Act as a key local contact for information security, supporting UK colleagues and working closely with Group security teams.
• Maintain and support delivery of the local Information Security Plan, including security reporting and compliance activity.
• Coordinate security controls, vulnerability management, penetration testing and remediation activity across the UK technology environment.
• Support local security incident responses, including investigation, escalation, communication, and completion of remediation actions.
• Coordinate security audits, risk assessments and third-party security reviews, ensuring identified risks and actions are appropriately managed.
• Help maintain secure configurations across infrastructure, networks, endpoints and cloud services, supporting operational resilience and business continuity.
• Promote information security awareness across the UK business, helping colleagues understand and adopt secure ways of working.
• Be devoted to the FCA principle of Consumer Duty, ensuring we are driving good customer outcomes across all aspects of services that have the potential to impact our customers.

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience in information or cyber security within a complex technology environment.
• Good working knowledge of security standards and controls, including ISO 27001, ISO 22301, Cyber Essentials Plus and PCI-DSS.
• Practical experience of security risk management, vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation.
• Experience supporting security audits, third-party or vendor assessments and regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Understanding UK GDPR, information handling, data retention, and security governance.
• Confidence working with technical and non-technical stakeholders and translating security requirements into practical action.
• Proactive, collaborative approach with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and maintain accurate security documentation.

What we offer: At Intrum we offer not only a challenging and rewarding career but also:

• Lifestyle: A competitive salary and attractive benefits package including 33 days holidays including bank holidays upon commencement, with the ability to buy more or sell back. You can participate in gadget schemes and give as you earn charity donation schemes. Interactive subsides events. Contributory workplace pension scheme. Additionally, you'll get an extra day to celebrate your birthday.
• Opportunities to grow: You'll receive training and coaching for your personal development/progression, and employee recognition programmes to help you grow in your career.
• Health: You'll have access to private medical insurance, life assurance, and more.
• Wellbeing: You'll enjoy discounts on gym memberships, cycle to work schemes, and a 24/7 employee assistance programme. You'll also have sociable working hours and breakfast snacks provided in the office.
• Supportive, open, and value-driven culture: Ethics. Dedication. Solutions. Empathy. Our values aren't just words hanging in the reception. They guide us all daily. It's what makes our culture inclusively open, inspiringly supportive and rich in diverse perspectives. It's why Intrum is a natural home for people ready to make a difference. And it's why people like you recognise this is the place to do just that.

Intrum we strive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

About Intrum:

Enabling financial health for people, businesses, and society.

Intrum is Europe's leading credit management services provider, helping businesses secure payments while supporting consumers in regaining financial stability across 20 European countries.

With 9,000 dedicated employees, we work every day to create sustainable financial solutions.

At Intrum we consider everybody to be a leader. We lead ourselves when collaborate to meet the needs of our clients and customers. We are all accountable to our actions as well as trust and care for each other. This makes us all leaders, independent of role or responsibility, and this is reflected in our 3 leadership principles: Deliver Impact, Inspire Trust and Embrace Growth.

We are an equal opportunities employer and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We will conduct credit, fraud, criminal record, right to work and reference checks as part of our pre-employment screening. You should not be bankrupt, have any outstanding county court judgments on your credit file. You must not have excessive default balances and any outstanding debt will be considered on a case-by-case basis.