Business insider jobs in United Kingdom

Product & Proposition Analyst – Cards – insider IR35 contractor. Location: UK (Hybrid – London 1–2 days per week) Experience: 5+ years The Opportunity: This is a fantastic opportunity to join a UK-based bank investing heavily in cards and embedded finance, supporting the build and evolution of a next-generation cards proposition. You’ll work closely with senior leadership and the Product & Proposition Lead to help shape strategy, drive execution, and bring new card products and features to market. What You’ll Be Doing: • Support the development and execution of the cards strategy and proposition roadmap, • Work across end-to-end card payment journeys (authorisation, clearing, settlement, disputes), • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, technology, operations, compliance, and commercial, • Analyse data to identify trends, performance gaps, and optimisation opportunities (e.g. approval rates, customer behaviour), • Translate complex insights into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders, • Support product launches, including requirements gathering, testing, and go-live coordination, • Help manage project timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple initiatives, • Contribute to customer and market analysis, helping shape value propositions and segment strategies, • Prepare materials for senior stakeholders, including presentations and business cases What We’re Looking For: • 5+ years’ experience within cards, payments, or fintech, • Strong understanding of card payment flows and ecosystem (issuer, acquirer, schemes such as Visa / Mastercard), • Experience supporting product or proposition development within a cards environment, • Commercial mindset with the ability to understand customer needs and value drivers, • Strong analytical skills (Excel essential; experience interpreting transactional/payment data), • Proven ability to work across cross-functional teams and complex environments, • Excellent communication skills — able to simplify complexity and influence stakeholders, • Experience supporting projects or product launches

Company Description Azoma is a leading provider of Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO) software, trusted by global enterprises such as Mars Inc, HP, Arla, and Zappos. With the rise of Shopping Agents like Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky, ChatGPT, and Gemini, Azoma enables brands to monitor their presence, uncover consumer trends, and generate optimized content to dominate Agentic Commerce. Our end-to-end workflow empowers businesses to lead AI conversations effectively. Azoma has been featured in renowned platforms including BBC, Business Insider, Vogue Business, and ShopTalk. Role Description Azoma.ai is hiring its first Head of Partnerships to build and scale a channel program with the world's leading marketing and media agencies. We work with enterprise consumer brands including Colgate, L'Oréal, Unilever, P&G, HP, and Mars to optimise their visibility across AI platforms like Amazon Rufus, Walmart Sparky and ChatGPT. The primary targets for this role are the major holding companies and their networks: WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Dentsu, and Havas, along with key sub-agencies such as Digitas, MediaCom, and OMD. While the title is Head of Partnerships, the role is fundamentally commercial in nature: opening doors, pitching our Generative Engine Optimisation platform to agency decision-makers, closing commercial agreements, and building the infrastructure for a scalable program including partner onboarding, co-selling playbooks, and joint go-to-market motions. You will report directly to the Founder and CEO and be based in London, West Hampstead. Qualifications • Demonstrated experience building agency partnerships from the technology vendor side, ideally with one of the major holding company networks or their sub-agencies, • A strong commercial track record: comfortable with outbound prospecting, pitching, and closing, • Ecommerce fluency sufficient to speak credibly with both agency teams and large CPG or retail brand clients, • Experience working inside an agency network is a strong plus, • Existing UK work rights

Elite US Law Firm - Risk & Compliance Lawyer (London) Are you a fee-earning lawyer looking to transition into an in-house role? This could be an excellent opportunity to make that move. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a top-tier, globally recognised firm in a pivotal in-house role, offering excellent exposure and long-term career development within risk and compliance. A leading international law firm is seeking a Risk & Compliance Lawyer to join its London-based Office of General Counsel. This role offers a strong platform for a qualified lawyer to step away from fee-earning and into a high-performing in-house function, working at the centre of regulatory, ethics, and data privacy matters. The Role Reporting to senior leadership, you will advise across the business on regulatory compliance, professional ethics, and data protection. You will work closely with partners and business teams, gaining broad exposure to complex risk and compliance issues within a collaborative and fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities • Advising on regulatory frameworks, professional conduct, and data protection obligations (including SRA and GDPR), • Supporting practising certificate renewals and regulatory filings, • Drafting and maintaining internal policies, guidance, and compliance materials, • Managing registers, insider lists, and core compliance processes, • Assisting with data privacy matters, including DPIAs, international transfers, and incident response, • Reviewing client and commercial documentation (e.g. NDAs, DPAs, questionnaires), • Supporting training, horizon scanning, and knowledge management initiatives Requirements • Qualified lawyer with relevant fee-earning experience, • Demonstrable interest in risk, compliance, and data privacy Apply below for further details!

At Cititec, we're powering the energy revolution with exceptional talent. Built on years of trusted relationships, we connect our customers with the right energy and commodities people when it matters most. We always operate with high standards, integrity and commitment to our clients and our people. We're expanding across energy - renewables, commodities, offshore, nuclear, trading and powering the businesses that modernise them. If you want to build a career at the centre of what comes next in energy and commodities, Cititec is the place to do it. The Opportunity As a Senior 360 Recruitment Consultant, you are responsible for owning and growing a clearly defined vertical. This includes building and maintaining strong client relationships, winning new business, and delivering high-quality candidates into specialist roles. You will manage the full recruitment lifecycle — from generating new opportunities to placing candidates — with a focus on developing your client base (initially around 80% business development, moving towards a 50/50 split as your portfolio grows). Success in this role means consistently developing a high-quality pipeline of roles and candidates, understanding your clients’ needs, and providing a seamless, professional recruitment service. You are expected to use your market knowledge to identify opportunities, consult with clients, and maintain a consistent delivery standard across all stages of the process. What You’ll Do… • Build and scale a profitable permanent recruitment desk within data centres, battery storage, renewables, or energy supply chain - placing technology into Energy, • Partner with global clients across London, Europe, the US, and APAC, • Win new business and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, • Represent Cititec at industry events, roundtables, and within our Commodities Tech Insider community, • Mentor and develop consultants as we grow our Energy Transition practice What We’re Looking For • Minimum 3 years’ experience in 360 permanent recruitment of a similar capacity as detailed above, • Proven track record of building and monetising a desk, • Experience recruiting technologies into renewables, battery storage, energy infrastructure (energy/commodities exposure highly advantageous), • Strong business development capability and confidence engaging senior decision-makers, • Leadership mindset with a desire to help scale a high-performance team What You’ll Get • A structured, transparent, career progression framework with merit-based advancement, • A tiered commission structure that accelerates with your results, plus performance bonuses, • Real autonomy and ownership of your market, • Hybrid working - 2 days WFH, • 25 days annual leave + birthday + volunteer day + tenure days (up to 28), • Vitality private health and dental Diversity & Inclusion Cititec is committed to building an inclusive industry. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are dedicated to equitable hiring internally and for our clients

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: HSSE Group Job Description: Job Description Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. About the Role: Sitting within Technology, Intelligence, Security and Crisis Management (ISC) is the overarching function which delivers geo-political insight, emergency management support and security protection to all bp businesses. The security function works to risk assess identified security threats and manage security barriers to ensure bp’s business activity can be conducted securely, wherever the opportunities arise. The Security Lead UK & Northern Europe sits within the Technology, Intelligence, Security and Crisis Management (ISC) function which delivers geopolitical insight, crisis management capability and security risk management support across bp’s global operations. The role provides specialist security expertise and risk management capability to bp businesses operating across the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. The position ensures that threats to personnel, assets and operations are properly identified, assessed and managed in accordance with bp security requirements so that business activity can be conducted safely and securely wherever bp operates. The role represents the first level of leadership within the regional security structure and operates under the direction of the Country Security Manager (CSM) UK & Northern Europe. The role is responsible for translating bp’s Security Risk Management framework into effective delivery across the area of responsibility and ensuring that security risks are managed in a timely, proportionate and risk informed manner. Key Accountabilities * Act as the Security Lead across bp businesses in the UK & Northern Europe, delivering the security risk management framework across the area of responsibility. * Provide security expertise, risk management oversight and support to safeguard our people, assets and operations. * Provide specialist security input to business leadership on emerging threats, security risks and the mitigation measures required to support safe and secure operations. * Identify, assess and monitor security threats affecting company personnel, facilities, assets and activities, ensuring that appropriate mitigation strategies are developed and implemented. * Maintain oversight of the regional security risk profile and ensure that security risk registers, mitigation plans and related governance processes are maintained in accordance with company requirements. * Provide security input to business activities, projects and operational planning to ensure that security considerations are appropriately incorporated into business decision making. * Support business leadership through the provision of security briefings, threat updates and risk assessments relating to geopolitical developments, security trends and operational risks. * Maintain strong relationships with internal partners across bp businesses to ensure security risks are understood and managed effectively within the operating environment. * Lead and coordinate the activities of Business Security Representatives across the region to ensure consistent implementation of bp security standards. * Act as a focal point for security support to bp activities in locations where no dedicated security presence exists. * Oversee the development and implementation of appropriate physical, procedural and technical security measures aligned to identified risk. * Conduct security reviews and assurance activities across bp operations to ensure that security controls remain effective and aligned to assessed risk. * Facilitate the exchange of threat and risk information with ISC intelligence teams and other relevant internal partners to ensure security assessments reflect the current threat environment. * Maintain effective relationships with government authorities, law enforcement agencies and relevant external collaborators to support situational awareness and coordination where required. * Contribute to incident management and crisis response structures when activated, providing security domain expertise as required. * Ensure that security activities remain aligned with the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and relevant bp Ethics and Compliance requirements. * Ensure that contractor and third party activities involving security considerations align with bp security standards and contractual obligations. * Conduct site visits across the area of responsibility to maintain visibility and assurance of security arrangements. Essential Education: * University degree in a relevant subject, professional qualifications comparable or professional experience. * The role holder must be able to speak and write English to a native standard with an emphasis on persuasive writing. Essential Experience and Job Requirements: The candidate must: * Have demonstrable experience in a security role with responsibility for managing security. * Possess strong expertise in threat assessment, security risk assessment and the practical application of security risk management frameworks. * Be comfortable engaging with senior business leadership and participating in leadership meetings. * Be able to clearly articulate security risks and mitigation strategies within a corporate environment. * Have a solid understanding of physical and technical security systems. * Have experience developing security policies, procedures and security risk management processes. * Demonstrate the ability to influence partners and support business decision making where security risk considerations are involved. * Have experience supporting budgets, preparing cases and contributing to security related projects or programmes. Desirable criteria * Membership of an appropriate professional security body (e.g. The Security Institute or ASIS). Travel Requirement Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: Accounting for people, Accounting for people, Agility core practices, Close security protection, Communication, Crisis and emergency response management, Digital Fluency, Extortion prevention and response, Information Security, Insider Risk, Intelligence for business, Investigations, Kidnap prevention and response, Large scale evacuation, Maritime Security, OMS and bp requirements, Personal security awareness, Physical security systems and surveillance, Project and programme management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Security in high risk environments, Security policies and practices, Security risk assessment and planning, Stakeholder Engagement {+ 2 more} Legal Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please ___. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: HSSE Group Job Description: Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner! Bp's intelligence, security & crisis management (ISC) team delivers intelligence, security, crisis management and geopolitical insights across bp’s businesses. Bp's intelligence & international advisory team (I&IA) forms a critical component of ISC, helping the company to assess threat, find opportunity and reduce risk through delivery of strategic intelligence. The Insider Risk team serves as I&IA’s authority resource for end-to-end investigation, analysis and mitigation of insider threats. The Insider Risk Analyst will demonstrate their knowledge of insider risk, as well as their expertise in investigations and intelligence tradecraft, to research, investigate and prepare cases for leadership review on a wide range of critical insider risks, ranging from nation-state threats through to Intellectual Property theft, across the global Insider Risk Programme. They will also help drive awareness and behavioural change amongst the bp workforce, serving as a key POC on insider issues, supporting training and awareness initiatives and building strong relationships with participants. • Working to support the Insider Risk Senior Manager across all three pillars of the Insider Risk Programme: prevention, detection and mitigation. To include delivery of training, defensive briefings, intelligence collection and analysis, and effective investigation in support of tangible outcomes to make bp safer., • Relationship building and collaboration with key insider risk partners, including Security, Digital Security, Human Resources, Legal and Ethics and Compliance. Work closely with these critical partners to investigate and illuminate concerns related to workplace violence, sabotage, theft of intellectual property or other unauthorized use of corporate data or resources., • Maintenance of a regular cycle of thematic reports to monitor and communicate current insider risk trends and issues and to support long-term security policy and business objectives., • Effective management of an information collection network and information databases to ensure long-term trends are effectively monitored and presented., • Fluency in English required., • Experience of sensitive personnel or counter-intelligence investigations in public or private sector, requiring meticulous research, attention to detail and ability to present findings for leadership review clearly and concisely., • Ability to triage and prioritise a large volume of leads, assessing each for potential risks and focusing on the most impactful., • Excellent written and analytical skills., • Experience with open-source intelligence tools and techniques., • Briefs effectively and confidently. Ability to draft detailed and accurate reports using data to support analysis., • Experience working with collaborators to quickly forge productive relationships and build networks., • Ability to demonstrate a high level of discretion, diligence and initiative., • Experience assessing threats and/or advising on intelligence matters., • An understanding of the intelligence cycle and its application in a commercial environment., • Experience of interviewing and/or debriefing., • Experience utilising AI to deliver efficiencies, safely., • Formal certifications in intelligence collection, collection management, intelligence analysis, or other intelligence fields from a government agency. This position requires a highly motivated, discrete, self-starter. Strong interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, deep curiosity and focused attention to detail are key attributes required for success. Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: Information Security Risk, Insider Risk, Intelligence for business, Investigations, Stakeholder Management Legal Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please ___. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

The Role Role Summary As the strategic architect of the Group’s security services, the Head of Security Services shapes and delivers a unified vision for cyber security across a global, federated enterprise and 85+ businesses grouped into 10 divisions. Reporting into the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), this leader is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operational cyber security capabilities, ensuring robust, efficient, and coordinated first and second line security operations that protect the Group’s people, systems, and data from cyber-attacks. By setting the direction for security services, championing the adoption of centralised capabilities, and driving continuous innovation, this role ensures that the security operations are robust, adaptive, and future-ready. With oversight of daily technical security functions and a relentless focus on operational excellence, the Head of Security Services builds and empowers high-performing teams to deliver 24/7 threat detection, rapid incident response, and proactive risk management. This includes ownership of security controls, security testing, tech assurance and vulnerability and threat management, and incident response across the organisation. Collaboration is at the heart of this position. By working across the GCS Leadership Team, with business and technology stakeholders, and with industry experts to align strategy, share intelligence, and drive a single, cohesive approach to security services, this leader ensures the Group not only meets but sets the benchmark for security services in a dynamic digital world. Role Responsibilities/Accountabilities Key Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Vision • Establish a costed strategic vision for security services across the Group’s global, federated enterprise. • Evangelist for adoption of central services and drives alignment to a single security services vision. • Define, maintain, and regularly review the security services service catalogue and SLAs, clearly articulating what “good” looks like. • Integrates AI and modernises security operations using latest technologies. • Ensure security operations support organisational resilience and disaster recovery objectives. • Collaborate across verticals with the GCS Leadership Team. Operations & Service Delivery • Oversee daily operations of technical security functions, working collaboratively with the SOCs to provide 24/7 visibility and threat detection ensuring services are resilient, risk-aware, and aligned with business needs. • Regularly review and modernise SOC processes, technologies, and talent. • Partner with MSSPs and build solid vendor relationships to deliver the security strategy. • Define and collect metrics/KPIs, regularly reporting to leadership on SOC events/incidents and overall effectiveness. • Review metrics at a group level and adjust services strategy accordingly. • Management of the security technology stack and continuous improvement of services. Incident Response & Threat Management • Serve as incident commander (including on-call), leading cyber incident response activities. • Lead on cyber incident response activities and contributing to incident management activities by advising on incident identification, assessment, classification, escalation, investigation, mitigation, monitoring and reporting to help ensure cyber incidents are managed in a timely and effectively manner to limit impact. • Drive the development of threat management, threat modelling and identification of new threat vectors by keeping up to date with industry activity and methodology, to help ensure key assets are protected. • Lead threat hunts to proactively discover potential compromises. • Lead and coordinate red teaming, penetration testing, and exercising to assess and enhance the quality of services delivered by SOCs. • Red/purple teaming to ensure standard of services—testing quality of services delivered by various SOCs. • Exercise incident response capabilities. Threat Intelligence & Tech Assurance and Vulnerability Management • Drive the development of threat management, threat modelling, and identification of new threat vectors. • Maintain up-to-date awareness of cyber threat intelligence and emerging attack vectors, always evaluating the materiality of the threat. • Liaise with industry experts and update strategy in line with the threat landscape. • Lead a threat-led, risk-based vulnerability management programme, ensuring timely remediation in collaboration with IT. • Own insider threat and data loss prevention (DLP) initiatives. • Lead the emergency patching vulnerability management programme ensuring threat-led and risk-based prioritisation, along with collaboration with IT for timely remediation. • Own and manage key security controls ensuring they are deployed, tuned, and monitored effectively across cloud and on-premise assets, along with managing the vendors that are responsible for supporting the Group. Team Leadership & Performance • Lead a high-performing team of cyber and project professionals, driving strategy, innovation, and continuous improvement across protection capabilities including SOC, Security Engineering, Technical Assurance and Vulnerability Management. • Manage team performance and cost base, making informed financial decisions and supporting portfolio-level investment planning. • Provide technical leadership and act as a subject matter expert on information security best practices. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement • Collaborate across the GCS Leadership Team and with cross-functional stakeholders. • Work with Head of Manufacturing / OT security to align security operations elements in manufacturing. • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to assess and mitigate risk, while maintaining a forward-looking roadmap for cyber capabilities. Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Attributes Essential • A certification such as CISSP CISM, GIAC, or equivalent. University Degree qualified in an engineering discipline ideally with Cyber Security Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer and Electronics engineering. • Prior experience of building security teams and a global delivery operations support model. • Demonstrable experience of building and running a technical assurance function. • Demonstrable knowledge of industry standards such as NIST and ISO27001. Knowledge of relevant regulations such as GDPR, NIS2, and EU AI. • Exceptional analytical and decision-making abilities during BAU and incidents. • Experience in leading cybersecurity incidents, implementing response procedures, and driving continuous improvements, and optimising security tools and technologies to enhance operational efficiency. • Hands-on experience in threat detection and prevention, including expertise in SIEM, EDR, firewall management, or similar security technologies. • Ability to build relationships and engage with all levels of management, communicating complex technical issues to a range of audiences. • Experience of managing service level agreements, commercial engagements, and supporting procurement with contract negotiations. • Demonstrable experience in designing, enhancing, and implementing security processes and policies. • Strong project management and leadership skills with the ability to prioritise both operational and project demands. Desirable • Experience of operating within federated environments or within an IT Service Management Provider / Consultancy • Experience managing external supplier relationships to secure the best value and service

People Security Adviser Inside IR35 - £450 - £500 p/d Active SC Required Primarily Remote We are supporting the build and evolution of a centralised Security Operations & Intelligence function and are seeking a People Security Advisor to play a key role in establishing and embedding a modern, risk-based personnel security capability. Operating at SFIA Level 4 (Enable), this role will work closely with the Physical & People Security Integration Lead to design, implement and continuously improve People Security frameworks, policies and processes across a complex, nationally significant environment. This is a hands-on role combining policy development, risk assessment, investigations, and stakeholder engagement, with a strong focus on integrating People Security across wider security and business functions. Key Responsibilities * Support the design, implementation and continuous improvement of People Security capability and improvement plans * Develop and maintain People Security policies, standards, controls and procedures aligned to UK Government frameworks * Conduct People and Physical Security risk assessments, audits and assurance activities * Lead or support personnel security investigations, incident response and post-incident reviews * Contribute to the development and delivery of insider risk programmes * Provide subject matter expertise and advisory support to business stakeholders on People Security matters * Enable integration across Security, Threat Intelligence, SOC, IAM, HR and Counter Fraud functions * Support supply chain engagement on People Security standards and controls * Define and maintain KPIs for People Security risk management and continuous improvement * Engage with external bodies including National Technical Authorities (e.g. NPSA) and wider government/security forums * Support security governance through forums, working groups and stakeholder engagement Required Experience & Skills * Active SC Clearance * Strong experience in People (Personnel) Security within UK Government or regulated environments * In-depth knowledge of UK Government vetting standards and security frameworks * Experience developing and implementing security policies, standards and procedures * Proven experience conducting security risk assessments and investigations (personnel and/or physical) * Ability to influence, negotiate and engage effectively with senior stakeholders * Experience working within change or transformation environments * Strong written communication skills, with ability to produce high-quality documentation * Solid understanding of integrated security disciplines (People, Physical, Cyber)