Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager
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Quality assurance and regulatory professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£48,200
(£24.72 per hour)
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Description
Are you a GRC professional looking to take the lead in complex, mission‑critical environments?
As our new Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager, you’ll shape and drive the security, risk and compliance agenda across our Aerospace, Defence & Security sector. Leading a talented team, you’ll work closely with senior leaders and clients to understand their security challenges, then design and deliver practical strategies that strengthen their security posture. This is a chance to lead from the front, embedding a culture of risk awareness, ensuring robust governance, and making a measurable impact in some of the UK’s most complex and mission critical environments.
This is a hybrid working role where you can be based anywhere in the UK, though ideally in the South to support weekly travel to customer sites in Farnborough, Salisbury, Portsmouth and Corsham.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
What you'll be doing:
As our new Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager, you’ll shape and drive the security, risk and compliance agenda across our Aerospace, Defence & Security sector. Leading a talented team, you’ll work closely with senior leaders and clients to understand their security challenges, then design and deliver practical strategies that strengthen their security posture. This is a chance to lead from the front, embedding a culture of risk awareness, ensuring robust governance, and making a measurable impact in some of the UK’s most complex and mission critical environments.
This is a hybrid working role where you can be based anywhere in the UK, though ideally in the South to support weekly travel to customer sites in Farnborough, Salisbury, Portsmouth and Corsham.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead major client engagements, building strong relationships and setting effective security controls.
- Leadership experience in GRC, risk, assurance or security governance.
- Hands‑on experience with security control frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS, Cyber Essentials Plus).
- Ability to turn policy into practical controls and clear risk narratives.
- Proven experience leading audits, assessments and remediation activity.
- Strong contribution to bids and pre‑sales, shaping security responses.
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop colleagues at all levels.
- Background in MOD environments.
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Working from home but with visits to sites along the M4 corridor will be more of an as needed basis.
Clearance Level: Ideally, you will already hold SC or DV clearance, or be eligible to obtain it.
Internal Recruiter: Lee
Salary: Up to £90,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge
Location: Working from home but with visits to sites along the M4 corridor will be more of an as needed basis.
Clearance Level: Ideally, you will already hold SC or DV clearance, or be eligible to obtain it.
Internal Recruiter: Lee
Salary: Up to £90,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge
and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.