Role: IT Security Manager
Location: Leeds (LS15)/(LS14)
Salary: DOE plus extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time
Working hours: 9:00 – 17:30 Monday to Friday
Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.4 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider.
The IT Security Manager’s primary role is to establish and enforce security policies to protect information systems and data, with a focus on enhancing cyber maturity and delivering the security roadmap. This involves minimising and containing risks and threats across the enterprise environment, assessing the current and future threat landscape, proposing policy changes, ensuring operational efficiency and regulatory compliance, and providing security communication, awareness, and training for various audiences, from senior leaders to field staff.
What’s in it for you?
* Occupational sick pay
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Contributory pension
* Discounted insurance (Aviva)
* Employee discount site
* Discounted gyms (via our blue light card and benefits schemes)
* Employee assistance programme
* In-house mental health support
* Free onsite parking
* Health and wellbeing initiatives
* Social events throughout the year
* Cycle to work scheme
* Green car scheme (subject to minimum earnings)
* Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc)
* Long service bonus
* Refer a friend bonus
* Blue light card
* Hybrid working
* Commitment to CPD/training
* 25 days annual leave increasing with service
* Annual leave buy and sell scheme
* Discounts & Exclusive offers at The Springs, Leeds
* 25% Discount & health & beauty purchases
* 25% Discount on Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor Services
What you’ll be doing?
* Lead the Cyber maturity roadmap with the tech senior team and business stakeholders.
* Propose policy changes for operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
* Develop a security program to address risks and compliance gaps.
* Monitor and report on policy compliance and enforcement within IT.
* Assist in responding to security audit failures.
* Define metrics and reporting strategies with the Senior IT team and stakeholders.
* Ensure security is integrated into hardware, applications, and software.
* Implement technical controls to support security policies.
* Research and recommend new security hardware or software.
* Liaise with vendors and legal/purchasing departments for contracts.
* Deliver security training materials.
* Plan and execute penetration tests and responses.
* Assess vulnerabilities in infrastructure and data.
* Advise on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.
Who are we looking for?
* A minimum of seven years of IT experience, with five years in an information security role.
* Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as Sarbanes Oxley, International Standards Organisation (ISO) 27001.
* Security related certification such as CISSP, CISA or CISM.
* The ability to design, implement and manage a comprehensive security solution within a medium to large sized multi-site, is an essential requirement of this new role.
* Experience working with legal, audit and compliance staff.
* Experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
* A strong understanding of the business impact of security tools, technologies and policies.
* Strong leadership abilities, with the capability to develop and guide information security team members and IT operations personnel, and work with minimal supervision.
What happens next?
Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.
Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.
All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.
Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.
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