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We are seeking a passionate leader to run the Group Security domain. You will be reporting directly to the Group Director, Safety, Security and Resilience and will be a key member of the Safety, Security and Resilience leadership team. This is a critically important role that shapes the security strategy across all our Markets and leads an experienced, passionate team of security experts.
The security team make sure those magical moments are delivered to you however, wherever and whenever you want them. Whether Journalists on high-risk deployments or productions teams creating the next magical movies, our team of self-motivated, big thinkers help keep Sky safe.
Job Purpose:
We are seeking a passionate leader to run the Group Security domain. You will be reporting directly to the Group Director of Safety, Security & Resilience and will be a key member of the leadership team. This is a critically important role that offers significant scope to shape a strategy central to enabling the security of Sky across all our Markets.
What you will do:
- Be the leader across Sky who is responsible for developing the strategy and overseeing the delivery of an effective security capability across Sky.
- Be ready to take a strong existing Group Security capability with a good reputation onto their next steps in maturity, ensuring security remains a critical enabler to Sky's success.
- Lead and develop a high-performance team of self-motivated problem solvers, capable of supporting the business with subject matter expertise and independent and confident enough to challenge appropriately when needed.
- Continue to develop the Group Security programme, ensuring it delivers what the business needs, through practical, cost-effective solutions that are compliant with all relevant legislation.
- Be responsible for senior leadership engagement on security matters, from Group Executive through to senior leadership teams across a broad business portfolio.
- Drive successful security solutions across a broad range of businesses, including Productions; Retail; Home Service Engineers; News; Sports and more.
- Promote a culture of business ownership of risk, providing the business with the right tools to manage it themselves but building capacity to step-in and provide hands-on support when needed.
- Be comfortable with and ready to use the latest innovations in security thinking to deliver the best returns on investment for the business, including in areas like AI; automation; digitisation; analytics and intelligence.
- Build or mature Group-wide controls, working with the markets to ensure compliance and develop capability.
- Be an evangelist for the benefits security can bring the business, enabling Sky to meet its creative goals as well as helping to safeguard the wellbeing of our people, business and reputation.
- Build a very strong business network. Support, partner and where appropriate, challenge our business leadership at every level to ensure security is a part of the conversation and part of the delivery across the Group.
- Support the Group Director, Safety, Security and Resilience delivering agile initiatives that fail fast, improve and move on, keeping the security programme slick, relevant and future proofed.
What you'll bring:
- You'll be a champion for doing the right thing, responding to Sky's diverse challenges with an approach that balances best practice, common sense, pragmatism, and commercial thinking.
- You'll be a security subject matter expert, with a proven track record in Security Risk at leadership level - this is not a cyber role - you have a track record of defining and implementing strategies, across matrixed organisations. Ideally, you'll be Chartered, hold a Security-related master's degree, or hold related industry qualifications.
- You are an outstanding leader, who is great at empowering and enabling your Team to be at their best, every single day; and willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
- You have a strong understanding of security, the value it adds, its relationship with other risk-based functions like Health and Safety.
- You have proven ability to think outside of the box, challenge industry norms and adapt quickly to evolving requirements and technologies, to deliver continuous improvements.
- You'll have demonstrable experience of setting and delivering strategic direction, ensuring improvements align with business objectives and come with a history of building strong executive-level relationships and successfully leading global teams.
- You are client satisfaction-focused; a great relationship builder with business partners and ensure prompt, transparent, proactive, and effective communications with these partners; with an ability to influence stakeholders both internally and externally across all levels.
- You have proven experience of managing a global team and partners within a diverse business culture; ability to inspire change through others.
- You have strength in taking decisive action where time is critical factor, ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality, even under pressure.
- You have strength in communicating and presenting complex issues and ideas with precision and clarity, adjusting appropriately for the audience; ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation.
- You like working at pace and embrace change as an opportunity to get better. You model the behaviour you want to see.
The rewards
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
Inclusion & how you'll work
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.
Your office space
Osterley
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
We'd love to hear from you
Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.
But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.
If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
