Hybrid working from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire, with requirement to visit other sites/locations
Salary up to £90k, dependent upon experience, plus car allowance, bonus, 36 days holiday, PHI and supporting colleague benefits
Help us stay one step ahead!
At Pets at Home, technology is transforming how we care for pets, support pet owners and run our business. As our digital world evolves, so does the challenge of protecting it.
We’re looking for a Head of Information Security who can do more than defend against cyber threats. You’ll help us innovate securely, make smart risk decisions and build security into the way we work, change and grow.
Reporting to the Director of Cyber Security and IT Services, you’ll lead our information security agenda across a diverse Group spanning Pets, Vets, Insurance, Distribution Center and Support Office.
You’ll turn cyber strategy and risk appetite into a clear, practical and measurable programme, bringing teams together around one ambition: enabling the business to move forward with confidence.
From security operations, incident preparedness and vulnerability management to governance, third-party risk and security-by-design, you’ll balance protection with customer experience, resilience and commercial priorities.
You’ll be an accomplished information or cyber security leader with experience in a complex, multi-site and digitally enabled organisation. You’ll combine strong technical credibility with commercial judgement and know how to turn security frameworks into practical business outcomes, balancing pragmatism and commercial approach to ensure our business keeps operating, whilst supporting growth and development.
You’ll bring experience across security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, assurance and third-party risk, with an understanding of modern cloud, SaaS, application, infrastructure, identity and network environments. Knowledge of NIST CSF and ISO/IEC 27001 is important, and professional standing such as CISSP, CISM or equivalent would be valuable.
Most importantly, you’ll influence rather than dictate. You’ll make complex cyber risks understandable, challenge constructively and build trusted relationships across Technology and the wider business.
Why Pets at Home?
Because complexity makes this role interesting. Retail. Digital. Vets. Insurance. Distribution. Data. Technology. Stores and Support Office.
You’ll have the opportunity to shape security maturity, influence major technology and business change and create an environment where security enables progress rather than standing in its way.
If this sounds like the opportunity and purpose-led business you’ve been looking for, we would love to hear from you!Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
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Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
