Business Security Services Senior Manager, WPP Production

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Why we're hiring:

This role is central to strengthening security across WPP, connecting the business with WPP Digital Security & Risk Management and ensuring global security strategies and standards are embedded effectively within your designated business area.

Working closely with WPP HQ teams across Strategy & Risk, Security Awareness and Technical Security Governance, you will help drive a consistent and joined-up approach to security while building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.

It’s a strong next step for an experienced Manager or Senior Manager ready to broaden their remit, take on greater leadership responsibility and build their influence within a global organisation.

What you'll be doing:

Security Leadership & Business Partnership

• Act as the primary point of contact for Digital Security matters across your designated business area, providing trusted security leadership and guidance.
• Partner with business leaders, WPP Digital Security and Enterprise Technology Cyber teams to align security priorities with business objectives.
• Act as a key link between the business and WPP’s security functions, ensuring business requirements and risks inform wider security strategies, policies and initiatives.
• Champion security across the business, building strong relationships and promoting shared accountability for managing security risk.

Risk, Governance & Assurance

• Partner with Digital Security Strategy & Risk teams to identify, assess and manage security risks, ensuring they are effectively integrated into WPP’s broader risk management framework.
• Work with Governance and Technology Compliance teams to support adherence to WPP policies, standards, regulatory requirements and technology compliance obligations.
• Support Client Assurance activities, including responding to client security requirements and contributing to security documentation and assurance processes.
• Work with Vendor and Supply Chain teams to help assess and manage third-party security risks and ensure alignment with WPP security standards.

Security Awareness & Culture

• Partner with the Digital Security Awareness team to develop and deliver targeted security awareness initiatives aligned to business needs.
• Promote a strong security culture, driving awareness, engagement and accountability across WPP and its Operating Companies within the region.

Product, AI Security & Investigations

• Collaborate with Digital Security Product & AI Security teams to help embed security into the development and deployment of products and services.
• Support corporate investigations and data or evidence acquisition, ensuring activities are conducted in line with WPP policies and processes.

Incident Response

• Coordinate the business response to security incidents, working closely with Enterprise Technology Cyber Incident Response teams.
• Lead business-level investigations and support the timely reporting, escalation and remediation of security incidents and breaches.

Compliance & Regulatory

• Support compliance with applicable local and international security laws, regulations and standards.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise during business audits, ensuring security-related actions and requirements are appropriately documented and addressed.

Reporting & Performance

• Provide clear and regular updates to senior business and security leadership on security initiatives, risk assessments, incidents and emerging priorities.
• Partner with Technical Security Governance to develop and track KPIs that demonstrate the effectiveness and maturity of the Digital Security programme.

• Significant experience in information security, with a strong understanding of global and regional security standards and regulations, including GDPR and ISO 27001.
• Proven experience across risk management, incident response and the implementation of security policies and standards.
• Experience working within a complex, global organisation and collaborating effectively across international teams, functions and regions.
• A strategic mindset, with the ability to connect security priorities to broader business objectives and translate them into practical action.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive approach, with a strong sense of ownership, accountability and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong cultural awareness and the ability to build trusted, collaborative relationships across diverse teams and geographies.
• A bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science or a related field.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM or CISA would be highly desirable.

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Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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