Overview
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DWP is seeking a Lead Security Risk Assurance Manager to drive supply chain security excellence across one of the UK’s largest public service departments. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. We deliver a range of critical services to approximately 20 million customers.
In this influential role, you’ll deliver impartial, expert insight to senior leaders and stakeholders, ensuring that strategic security risks are identified, understood, and effectively managed. This is your opportunity to make a real impact, embed data-driven assurance, and strengthen resilience across vital public services.
You will join the Supply Chain Security function in DWP’s Security & Data Protection (S&DP) directorate, one of the largest security teams in government. We are responsible for delivering a wide range of specialist security services, solutions and capability to DWP’s 80,000 staff, Arms’ Length and Public Bodies, and industry partners to ensure the secure and resilient delivery of welfare services.
We’re a huge organisation. That means a real variety of work, challenge and opportunity. We believe that diversity and inclusion is essential for a thriving and successful organisation. Diverse teams bring a wide range of perspectives, experiences and ideas, which lead to better decision-making, creativity and innovation.
Join us and be part of an organisation at the leading edge of government security that truly values diversity and inclusion and makes a real-world positive impact.
As a supply chain security specialist, you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding DWP’s services by assuring the security posture of contracts and suppliers.
You’ll 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’ll drive targeted risk management interventions that 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.
We have a supportive and collaborative team culture in ESRM. With a fantastic induction programme and year-round learning opportunities, we’ll provide you with the skills and experience you need to be confident in your role. We welcome applications from skilled and knowledgeable security professionals and can support you in gaining relevant qualifications and certifications (such as ISO27005 Risk Manager, ISO27001 Lead Auditor or CompTIA+) if you don’t already hold them.
Given the geographic spread of our team, DWP customers, cross-government stakeholders and industry suppliers, you'll need to be willing to travel to other DWP locations, with periodic overnight stays required.
We would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate your skills and experience across the following essential criteria:
Essential criteria
* Leadership and delivery
o Leading by example, visibly and confidently engaging colleagues and stakeholders to support and deliver effective security risk and assurance capabilities.
o Thriving in a challenging environment, working to tight deadlines while prioritising a large and varied workload.
* Commercial practice and supply chain security assurance
o Knowledge and experience of commercial practice, preferably in a public sector context.
o Demonstrable knowledge and experience of third-party supplier security assurance methodologies and associate standards and certifications.
o Solid understanding of the principles of risk management and a proven track record of working on risk management.
o A comprehensive technical understanding of security risk management processes and controls.
o Effective decision-making, demonstrable ability to translate evidence, available data and experience into clear, accurate and professional decisions.
* Engagement and communication
o Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and negotiate easily and confidently with stakeholders at all levels.
o Experience of interacting with senior leaders on security risk/assurance topics to present, escalate and influence decision making.
Pay, benefits and details
You’ll join us in your choice of one of our brilliant hub locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Our team values work-life balance with flexible hours and hybrid working. We use Flexitime, allowing you to build up flexi-credit for later start or earlier finish.
Salary range: £57,946 - £68,205 p.a., with an attractive civil service pension and generous annual leave starting at 26 days (rising to 31 days).
Recruitment and Retention Allowance: £7,000 per annum.
The benefits package includes volunteering and charitable giving, discounts and savings, interest-free loans, sports and social activities, and learning and development opportunities including coaching, mentoring, progression opportunities and guaranteed 5 days formal learning per year.
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