Chapter Lead - Security Business Partnering Manager

Tesco PLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Maternity/paternity leave

Virtual GP service

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Tesco Mobile seeks a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead) to shape how security enables innovation across products and technology. You will lead a high-performing team and serve as a trusted advisor to executives, balancing strategic vision with practical delivery.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, frontier AI risk management, and embedding security into engineering workflows in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior security role across multiple domains.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong stakeholder management with senior leaders.
• Deep understanding of secure development practices, modern architectures, and cloud environments.
• Experience embedding security into engineering workflows (DevSecOps, SSDLC).
• Ability to translate security risks into business terms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of Security Partners.
• Act as trusted advisor translating security challenges into actionable insights.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and technology leaders to bake security in from the ground up.
• Promote automation and an AI-first mindset across the security function.
• Balance strategic vision with operational execution and risk objectives.

Skills

Senior security

Team leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Secure development

DevSecOps

AI governance

Communication

Security risk framing

Influence senior leaders

Tools

Mitre ATT&CK

NIST

AI governance frameworks

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Cyber Security Chapter head at Tesco Mobile as a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead). An exciting opportunity where you will play a critical role in shaping how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape. You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up-empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance. If you are looking for a role where you can influence, leader, and make a real impact then This role can be based in any of our 3 head offices (Slough, Welwyn Garden City or Manchester). Occasional travel to the other offices may be required and is expensable. Tesco Mobile currently operate a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 2 days per week collaborating with colleagues at an office, Store, or Supplier location. This role has potential for career growth or learning opportunities for the right person You will be responsible for As a Security Business Partnering Manager (Chapter Lead), you will play a critical role in shaping how security enables innovation across our products and technology landscape. You will sit at the heart of the business, working side-by-side with product, engineering, and technology leaders to ensure security is built in from the ground up-empowering teams to move fast while staying secure. This role sits across Security Partnering, Security Culture & Awareness, AI Governance. This is not a traditional "assurance" role-this is about influence, leadership, and impact. You will act as a trusted advisor, translating complex security challenges into clear, actionable insights that drive better business outcomes. At the same time, you will lead and grow a team of Security Partners, building capability and creating a culture where security is seen as a shared responsibility. This is a leadership role requiring a balance of both strategic vision and operational execution. The successful candidate will build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, while ensuring alignment with broader organisational risk and security objectives. A key aspect of the role is leveraging frontier AI technologies to reduce risk across the business and with our partners. This includes developing a high-performing team, promoting an automation & AI-first mindset, and ensuring you enable the business as a trusted innovation partner. We are an Agile business organised around cross functional end-to-end squads, which are then grouped into Tribes and Centres of Excellence (CoE). This role will require collaboration across all areas of the business, so how you work is just as important as what you do. You should be just as comfortable solving complex technical challenges, as you are educating others and enabling the business, while always thinking customer first.

• Proven experience in a senior security role across a broad range of domains
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Deep understanding of secure development practices, modern architectures, and cloud environments
• Experience embedding security into engineering workflows (e.g. DevSecOps, SSDLC)
• Ability to identify, assess, and communicate security risks in business terms
• An ambition to constantly learn new skills and develop knowledge, with a specific focus on monitoring developments in frontier AI cyber capabilities
• Attention to detail and great communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams, while influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption across engineering and business units
• Keen to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.
• Should be passionate about improving ways of working and best practices by understanding the customer.

Nice to haves

• Experience operating in large, complex or fast-paced organisations
• Have awareness and understanding of current cyber security threats, actors and their techniques.
• Experience defining security strategy or leading transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of relevant security & AI governance frameworks and regulations, such as Mitre ATT&CK, NIST, TSA.
• Any relevant study or certifications, either formal or self-learning.

A 50-50 joint venture between Tesco and VMO2 that was established back in 2003, Tesco Mobile has gone from strength to strength as we've launched into new services and markets. With more than 5 million customers, we're the largest mobile virtual network operator in the UK. We're proud to have an inclusive culture that's uniquely Tesco Mobile, with a strong sense of community, plus all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders.

We care for human connection and we keep our customers at the heart of everything we do, which is why we've embraced the Agile way of working. Agile is more than just a methodology - it's a liberating journey that puts customers and purpose first. It empowers us to self-organise, collaborate, co-create and rapidly inspect and adapt everything we do - allowing us to respond at pace to our customers' needs. It encourages variety of thought and enables us to thrive, both individually and collectively. We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing