Senior Cyber Security Education & Training Specialist

London

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WPP

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, clients and communities.

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WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. 

As we continue on this journey, we require a Senior Cyber Security Education & Training Specialist to take responsibility for spreading awareness of techniques and do’s don’ts to deliver industry best cyber security awareness and behaviour across all individuals within WPP. 

Reporting into the Cyber Security Transformation Lead, you will play a pivotal role in promoting security culture and awareness across all staff in all geographies and will work closely with the cyber security management team to enhance the training programs on an ongoing basis. 

You will establish a training programme and work with the necessary internal parties to have this built into the mandatory training programme for all staff (permanent and contract). 

 

What you'll be doing:

  • Deliver information security training and awareness programme globally ensuring it aligns with WPP Privacy and Security Charter.  
  • Identify and drive improvements to the way in which current awareness campaigns are run and delivered to all colleagues across all markets. 
  • Provide leadership and guidance to the team to continuously improve the delivery of security training across the organization. 
  • Own and manage the relationship and engagement with external Training content providers and ensure industry leading materials provided. 
  • Develop metrics to track training undertaken and map against compliance and security occurrences demonstrating improving trending. 
  • Embed all security training within staff and contractor onboarding process across all geographies. 
  • Develop feedback loops and necessary forums to ensure staff and management have opportunity to pro-actively suggest areas for improvement and development 
  • Keep up to date with changing market knowledge and assess new opportunities for educating colleagues on evolving security awareness across markets and sectors

 

What you'll need:

  • Experience of working in a Cyber Security environment, preferably within a training and education discipline.   
  • Experience of implementing awareness, education and training events or campaigns in a Global Organisation. 
  • Experience of authoring and delivering computer-based training to a distributed global workforce 
  • Strong and detailed understanding of the threat landscape and best practices to avoid individual exposure.  
  • Detailed understanding of the Security guiding principles. 
  • Strong Stakeholder Management and engagement skills 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
  • Proven track record of operating in time critical, diverse, creative and corporate environments

 

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 confidence: 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 deliver extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, driven people – We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver 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?

Tags: Automation Cloud Compliance Privacy

Perks/benefits: Flex vacation Team events

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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