Cyber Security Consulting Manager
Job Description
Job title: Cyber Security Consulting Manager
Company: QBE Insurance
Job description: Primary Details Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Cyber Security Consulting Manager
We our building out our Cyber capability, with a newly created role for a Cyber Security Consulting Manager to join as part of the next evolution. Managing a team, this strategic leadership role will deliver the continuous development and management of our experienced cyber consulting team, partnering cross-departmentally to deliver project engagement and risk mitigation. The role works to make QBE safe, secure and resilient; working to continuously out pace and outsmart cyber threat faced by our business. This intellectually challenging and highly influential role is a technical and people leader within the Group Cyber Security team accountable for safeguarding QBE from increasingly sophisticated Cyber and information security threats. This is a highly collaborative leadership, consulting and delivery role, requiring a sustained level of curiosity and a continuous ability to grow and share deep technical knowledge that translates into insight to solve root cause problems and supports strategic business outcomes.
Your New Role:
- Lead, motivate and develop a team of Cyber Security Leads and Consultants
- Lead a significant transformational change in the way Cyber and information security threat is considered and mitigated across the core business, 3rd party suppliers, programs and projects
- Lead building cyber and information security experience across QBE, coaching understanding, building awareness and engendering healthy curiosity
- Build strong collaborative relationships, providing advice and working together to identify and solve root cause problems; demonstrating great tenacity in reducing potential threats and risks
- Take personal accountability for seeking out and identifying security weaknesses; seeing mitigation through to a secure conclusion
- Drive Cyber engagement across QBE to ensure issues are identified, self-reported and notified to key stakeholders
- Act with integrity and transparency in threat and risk identification and problem solving
- Role model the creation, innovation and negotiation of solutions and risk mitigation strategies; driving fast paced and agile behaviours
- Drive the development, execution and assurance of an effective Cyber practice; including the adoption of relevant policy, standards, processes and templates
- Manage and quality assure staff augmentation and outsourced security arrangements; ensuring delivery to SLAs, quality controls and alignment with QBE requirements
- Drive collaboration across Technology Services and IT suppliers to avoid security problems manifesting as business problems
- Track compliance and security benefits to demonstrate impact and mitigation success
About You:
- Demonstrable experience with security and risk-based standards such as ISO2700X, ISO31000, NIST CSF, NIST800, PCI-DSS and other relevant security risk standards and technologies.
- Experienced in helping a business, its’ partners and customers to become more innovative and fast paced delivering improved business agility
- Experienced in leading in, and working across multiple in house and outsourced service models, time zones and collaborating in a multi-cultural
- Ability to demonstrate exceptional resilience and tenacity in managing and mitigating 24×7 cyber threats whilst successfully managing work life balance
- Solution orientated with a problem-solving mindset, showing tenacity to see solutions through to delivery
- Good decision-making ability when faced with complex and business critical threats
- Excellent communication, negotiation and conflict management skills, with an ability to anticipate and pre-empt potential obstacles; strong listening skills
At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today’s workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job.
Why QBE? At My Best
At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA – because we know it’s not just what we do that matters, it’s how we do it that makes the difference. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.
At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today’s workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation. Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;
Employer of the Year 2022 Winner – Insurance Insider
British Claims Awards 2022 Winner – InsurTech Award
Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner – Claims Product Solution of the Year
Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response
Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year
We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent
Inclusion of Diversity
We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.
We know that diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our customers.
About QBE
QBE is an international insurer and reinsurer, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney. We employ more than 11,000 people, with a local presence in 27 countries.
We are driven by our purpose of enabling a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.
We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty. Today, we’re still giving our customers confidence to explore, innovate and take measured risks, secure in the knowledge they’re covered by a strong insurer.
We work hard to build a culture that best supports our people, and not only represents our business, but the world around us. As a business insurance specialist, QBE European Operations offers a range of insurance products from the standard suite of property, casualty and motor to the specialist financial lines, marine and energy. All are tailored to the individual needs of our small, medium and large customer base.
To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our .
What next?
If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to APPLY NOW! Simply click the “apply” button to submit your CV and other relevant documents, and a member of our friendly Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to discuss your interest further if you meet the requirements of the role.
Please make the Talent Acquisition aware should there be any reasonable adjustments that may need to be made for the interview and the remainder of the recruitment process.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, click “Apply” and follow the step by step process.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
Expected salary:
Location: London
