Business Information Security Officer

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Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

Staines, London or Salford Quays

Permanent

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

We’re a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices and a hospital. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

We believe in quality, affordable and accessible healthcare for all. If you share our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, then look no further, Bupa could be the perfect match.

Join a team that’s passionate about leading the healthcare market with products and services designed to help people lead better lives.

At Bupa you’ll work on high-impact, innovative projects in an organisation that makes a real difference. You’ll have to be ambitious and eager to play an integral role in our overall digital strategy.

What you’ll be doing

The Business Information Security Officer (BISO) is the focal point for effective engagement between Bupa UK business units and BG&UKMU Information Security Team. This role is a trusted advisor to the business and technology stakeholders providing broad knowledge of the Information Security Policy, Risk, Strategy, Architecture and roadmap to enable the business divisions to understand and build Information Security requirements into business processes.

The BISO will report to the CISO and work closely with the Information Security Team Towers as well as the business to support and operate within the BG&UKMU Business Risk Appetite.

The BISO is an essential business partner and will take responsibility for assessing and managing information security risk for the business. This role will focus on ensuring that Information Security is considered and embedded in respect of all elements of the business. The BISO plays a key role in a large-scale security transformation programme and establishing a high performing security function for Bupa.

What’s a typical day?

• Build and maintain effective relationships between the Business and Information Security Team including the wider Technology organisation.
• Own and communicate the roadmap for Information Security aligned with Group Enterprise Security Policy and Standards, and BG&UKMU Business Risk Appetite.
• Facilitate planning, introduction, delivery of Information Security services and initiatives e.g. support compliance activities, security audits, delivery of point services such as vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, application and project risk assessments, 3rd party supplier and customer assessments, business security awareness and education, architecture.
• Collaborate across the Information Security team to balance supply and demand of security and business resources
• Improve business engagement with the security function through the provision of specialist advisory and consultancy services to the business.

Who we’re looking for?

• A technical degree and / or industry recognised qualification and demonstrable experience in Information Security Management (e.g. CISSP, CISM, or CRISC certification).
• Extensive knowledge in Cyber, Information Security and Risk Management.
• An expert understanding of British and International Security Standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, NIST, CSC20, PCI-DSS) relevant UK and EU privacy legislation (especially Data Protection Act 1988 and EU GDPR) and the UK regulatory environment (e.g. ICO, FCA, PRA and CQC).
• Sound knowledge of business management and able to demonstrate a professional and credible image.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills with the confidence and ability to operate effectively at all levels.

What’s in it for you?

We’re driven by one purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and that that means our people too. As a Bupa employee you’ll be entitled to some fantastic benefits which include 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days as your length of service increases, the option to buy and sell holiday, an enhanced pension plan, life assurance and income protection. You’ll join our annual bonus scheme, amount variable dependent upon your role and performance. Looking after your health is important to us and you can benefit from our health trust scheme where all our people have the option of taking our market-leading medical insurance cover, which includes mental health support and treatment, at a greatly reduced price as well as a free health assessment every 2 year. Your health and wellbeing matter to us and we provide lots of family friendly policies too. You can keep fit at our free onsite gyms (local gym discounts where no onsite gym). We will support you to get to work, offering a season ticket loan to spread the cost of an annual train/bus ticket as well as our cycle to work scheme.

Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path. Welcome to a place that celebrates you. This isn’t where you’ve been. This is where you’re going. This is what we have belief in.

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on the basis of personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

If you’d like to learn more, please visit www.bupa.com