Group Director of Infrastructure & Security

Group Director of Infrastructure and Security

Group IT - Applegreen

Competitive Salary plus car/car allowance and bonus.

Based at Vantage Court, Newport Pagnell, MK16 9EZ

A new Group Leadership team is required to ensure that the vision, strategy and approach to technology and information services is delivered across Applegreen.

As Group Director of Infrastructure & Security, you will be an effective leader liaising with other parts of the business working closely with the Applegreen CIO, Country Directors of IT and IT Heads of Department on ensuring Group Global Standards and Strategy is designed and delivered for our current and future business needs around cyber security and network standards.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security program directives and plans group-wide, including any and all country-wide information security training efforts to ensure that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information is owned, controlled, or processed in a manner compliant with Group IT Policy and relevant regulatory authorities
• Develop and maintain group information security policies, standards, guidelines and oversee the dissemination of security policies and practices; identify knowledge gaps to increase district awareness of relevant information security practices.
• Provide leadership and guidance on information security topics, advising and collaborating on security processes, business continuity, and disaster recovery plans.
• Ensure that system and application security design is in accordance with Group IT Policy; consult with Local IT teams to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation, selection, installation, and configuration of hardware, applications and software.
• Lead investigations of any actual or potential information security violations and manage escalation of security events.
• Monitor external threat environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on appropriate courses of action.
• Provide regular reporting on the current state of information security program to the CIO and other senior managers as appropriate.
• Establish metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency, effectiveness, and maturity level of the program.
• Liaise with relevant business units (such as Internal Audit, Law, Finance, Safety & Security, Risk Management, HR teams), and external agencies as needed to ensure that the company maintains a strong security posture.
• Work with system administrators and application developers to audit, monitor, and validate their environment’s security, including conducting gap analysis and other comprehensive internal assessments of existing systems to improve the security infrastructure and mitigate risks.
• Provide oversight to the architecture and engineering of new security systems; including the evaluation of technical designs.
• Demonstrate Global Leadership and support all IT COE, IT Directors & Heads of In Country
• Support the build (and lead) a global team of Infrastructure Security and Security Operations Centres of Excellence
• Supports the development of technology & products ensuring technologies are safe implementation.
• Support technical resources and ensure they are geared towards delivering secure and safe business change at pace
• Safeguards that prevent security breaches and keep all group company and customer data secure
• Identify the need for upgrades or new products that provide assurance, as per a clear strategic plan
• Assist in building relationships with vendors and overseeing all IT contracts to ensure they are secure
• Work with the Group CIO and function on delivering group strategic initiatives and standards
• Chair Group COE meetings for Networks and Security and provide country-input for group reporting

Qualifications, knowledge, and experience.

• Proven experience as IT director or similar role
• Previous experience in Security, managing, and defining strategic technical long term roadmap
• Demonstrated regulator and compliance audit initiatives
• Multi-site hospitality and or retail experience.
• Excellent understanding of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems, and telecommunications systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the entire organisation
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills
• Strong documentation and project management skills
• Experience in managing a large IT budget effectively, commercially aware
• Experience in analysis, implementation, and evaluation of IT systems and their specification
• Excellent organisational, stakeholder, and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Degree educated in computer science, engineering, or relevant field

Other Information

• Newport Pagnell based with travel to all parts of the UK and IRL
• Company car / opt out option
• Expenses paid
• Full driving licence (required)
• Annual bonus scheme
• Stakeholder Pension

The closing date for applications is Friday 9th July 2021