Information security lead

In this role you will lead the delivery of security activities to ensure swift business value realization. This role focuses on information security and digital security risk activities with the following key accountabilities:

• Relationship and Customer management: Act as the main point of contact for all Digital Security enquiries within the relevant ST&S business portfolio. Build strong partnerships and influence positive change that serves the commercial ambitions.
• Security Expertise: Provide technical expertise, implementing digital security operating processes aligned to security standards across all value stream activities.
• Safety: Prioritize cyber and operational safety, improve digital security controls through architecture designs and process to maintain our cyber posture and react to new threats., * Monitor and Assess: Keep a vigilant eye on our digital domains, using innovative tools to detect and assess threats. This includes collaborating on the identification, assessment and management of risk
• Strategize and Protect: Develop and implement robust security measures, crafting a secure environment for our data and systems.
• Respond and Recover: Partner Customers during security incidents with a calm, calculated approach, minimising impact and guiding recovery efforts.
• Educate and Advocate: Champion security awareness across the organisation, encouraging vigilance and responsibility.
• Innovate and Guide: Provide strategic insights to teams, ensuring security is a cornerstone of product development and business operations.
• Protect & Defend: Proactively mitigate cyber risks and coordinate the remediation of findings from vulnerability scans, supplier assurance, compliance reviews, and support the digital Delivery teams in maintaining high levels of cyber hygiene.

• Degree Educated, preferably BSc in Information Security or equivelent.
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or working towards certification.
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as ISO 27001/2, NIST, and CIS framework is highly helpful.
• Proven track record working in internal or external information security roles, including leading teams or junior information security practitioners.
• Strong influencing skills that enable you to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, clearly and concisely.
• Deep technical knowledge, and experience delivering security solutions and providing technical advice.
• A track record of delivering business benefits by balancing the need to protect the organizations commercial ambitions and maintain operations of the core value streams.
• Experience working within developing digital ecosystems, with multiple partners and environments, ensuring suitable digital security standards and practices delivered and maintained.
• Good understanding of enterprise and operational risk management, risk governance and compliance requirements.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to adapt to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines and keep customers abreast of impact (potential or actual) to defined delivery timescales and/or business impact.
• Ability to use technology, data, and insights to enable decision making, Consulting, incident investigation and response, Incident Management, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information security behaviour change, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier security management

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

To enable the world to reach net zero, bp are looking for the brightest digital specialists to drive innovation as it transitions from an International Oil Company (IOC) to an International Energy Company (IEC).

Passionate about identifying and crafting security solutions that make bp a cyber resilient organisation, the Information Security team partner with the Supply Trading and Shipping (ST&S) business to help them understand cyber risk and take personal ownership for cyber security!

We’re looking for curious minds who are driven by opportunities to build value and deliver secure digital products and services to advance the global energy transition.