Business Security Services Senior Manager, WPP Production
Quick Summary
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.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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About this job
- Who can apply
- United Kingdom
- Posted
- 27 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 9, 2026
- First seen
- October 9, 2026
- Last seen
- November 5, 2026
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- 26
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