Principal Security Risk Assurance Manager
2 days ago
Birmingham
As the Principal Security Risk Assurance Manager, you will play a critical role in safeguarding DWPs services by directing the security posture of suppliers. You will lead the identification and analysis of Supply Chain risks, translating complex data and threat intelligence into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers. Working closely with commercial, delivery, and security teams, you will strengthen resilience, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive assets across a diverse supplier landscape. Your work will directly support strategic assurance efforts and help shape a proactive, risk-aware culture across DWP and its partners. Responsibilities will include: Strategic and team leadership • Leading by example, visibly and confidently engaging colleagues and stakeholders to support and deliver effective security risk and assurance capabilities, • Clearly define priorities, ensuring all risk analysis and assurance activities align with departmental and HMG strategic risk. Reflect priorities in measurable team objectives and strategic plans, • Identify opportunities for enhanced assurance of DWPs supplier and known Supply Chain risks, • Continue to iterate the service to ensure we continue to meet end user needs, stakeholder requirements, and align to wider departmental risk and control assessment practices, • Direct the delivery of timely security assurance reviews of suppliers to DWP to inform contract award, risk mitigation, and in-contract Security Risk Management requirements, • Ensure that industry trends, new technologies and up to date threat modelling is factored into assurance activities to maintain best in class service to DWP, • Lead and deliver a data-driven analysis to improve both contract and enterprise-level decision-making, providing holistic and robust opinion on the security posture of people, processes, and technology, • Direct the delivery of activities ranging from targeted contract or supplier-focused risk assessments to inform the management of specific risks, through to enterprise-level assessments of DWP exposure to security risk from its vast and complex Supply Chain, • Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in Commercial, Legal, Digital, and other enabling functions to collectively identify and address Supply Chain security risks, • Clearly communicate analytical results and complex concepts to non-expert audiences, including senior stakeholders, to secure buy-in and support for recommendations, • Champion Supply Chain Security and Risk Management services across DWP, particularly within Commercial Directorate Given the geographic spread of our team, DWP customers, cross-government stakeholders, and industry suppliers, you will need to be willing to travel to other DWP locations, with regular overnight stays required. Person specification We would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate your skills and experience across the following essential criteria: Leadership and delivery • Direct the development of Supply Chain Security Assurance business strategies for DWP, • Demonstrate leadership through action, visibly and confidently engaging internal colleagues and stakeholders to support and deliver effective security risk and assurance capabilities, • Thriving in a challenging environment, working to tight deadlines while prioritising a large and varied workload, • Comprehensive knowledge and experience of commercial practice, preferably in a public sector context, • Demonstrate knowledge and experience of third-party supplier security assurance methodologies and associate standards and certifications, • Comprehensive understanding of the principles of Risk Management and a proven record of accomplishment of working on Risk Management, • Extensive technical understanding of Security Risk Management processes and controls, • Provide strategic direction for DWP and its Arms Length Bodies, in relation to Supply Chain Security Assurance, • Actively engage and manage stakeholder relationships at Director and Executive Team level, • Communicate and influence stakeholders, including the Director General, Executive Team, and Board, to elevate key priorities and drive cross-government outcomes Benefits Alongside your salary of 75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: • Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours., • Generous annual leave at least 26 days on entry, increasing up to 31 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave., • Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme., • Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly)., • Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service., • Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes., • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.Things you need to know Selection process details Your application will consist of the following: • A completed Personal Details application form, • A curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements, including details of the work and projects that you have been involved in Application & Sift The next stage of the application will ask you to complete a CV and Personal Statement. The CV is for reference only and will not be scored. A sift will be carried out using your 1250-word Personal Statement. Your personal statement needs to set out evidence of how your experience meets all the Essential Criteria in the advert. We are not looking at how much time you have spent in a job, where relevant, but rather how you have performed. Your Personal Statement must show demonstrable evidence of what you did, how you did it, and what outcome was achieved. This should include the impact of your approach and evidence of your ability to take forward different approaches in different circumstances. The standards detailed in the Person Specification are the minimum expectations for the role and only candidates with the strongest evidence will be invited to interview. Candidates will have to meet the standard for all criteria to progress to interview. If high application volumes are received, candidates may be assessed against the lead criteria (Strategic and Team Leadership). The benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may also be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. Your statement must not exceed 1250 words, and you are advised to take advantage of the full word count. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide must relate to your own experiences. If evidence of plagiarism, or sharing of questions, information or answers throughout any part of the selection process is found, your application will be withdrawn. Examples of plagiarism can include: • Presenting the work, ideas and experience of others as your own, • Copying content from an online/published source Interview Stage If you're successful at sift stage, you will be invited to a face-to-face interview in which you will be expected to carry out a presentation. You will be notified of the presentation subject nearer the time. Visual aides are permitted. Postings Posting will be made in merit order by location, this will be based on the geographical requirement at the time. Successful candidates will be posted to a specific role and will have the opportunity to express a preference as part of the selection process, although final decisions may come down to business need, and the skills and development needs of candidates. Standard promotion rules will apply, and successful candidates will be placed on the pay scale and terms and conditions of DWP. Offers of employment : Following the interview stage, should you not reach the required standard for the advertised G6 role, we may be able to offer you a role which would be a grade below the advertised post under our Near Miss process. Any candidates falling into this category will be contacted once the interview results have been released. You will be asked to indicate if you are interested when completing your application. Further Information At the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. Find out more about working for DWP on the DWP Careers Hub . Reserve List A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. 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