Manufacturing Security Lead
Fixed Term - Full TimeJob Overview
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BizTX: Co-Creating WOW Through Digital Innovation
It’s an exciting time to be part of BizTX at Twinings Ovaltine. At the heart of this iconic brand, we’re on a mission to drive exponential growth and productivity through cutting-edge technology to transform the business globally.
We’re not here to simply provide IT services. We’re technology leaders and strategic partners, co-creating innovative solutions that help the business run, grow, and transform. Everything we do is guided by our commitment to ‘WOW’ our consumers, customers and colleagues. WOW experiences, WOW solutions, and WOW impact.
Our people think differently. We have an exponential mindset that helps us push boundaries and shape what’s next. The future at Twinings Ovaltine is full of possibility and we’d love you to be a part of it.
Note: This is 12 Months FTC role.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The role exists to address recognised gaps in specialist capability and capacity, providing authoritative ownership of manufacturing security risk, architecture and controls across all factories as well as the definition and delivery of the Manufacturing Security programme of work.
Note: This is 12 Months FTC role.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The role exists to address recognised gaps in specialist capability and capacity, providing authoritative ownership of manufacturing security risk, architecture and controls across all factories as well as the definition and delivery of the Manufacturing Security programme of work.
Key Responsibilities
OT & Manufacturing Security Subject Matter Ownership
- Act as the authoritative OT / Manufacturing Security SME for Twinings OVO.
- Own manufacturing security architecture, principles and technical standards aligned to ABF policy and IEC 62443.
- Provide expert judgement on security risk, design decisions and trade‑offs in safety‑ and availability‑critical environments.
- Ensure clear lines of accountability for manufacturing security exist across central teams, sites and third parties.
BAU OT Security Ownership
- Own the ongoing OT security posture across all manufacturing sites.
- Develop and maintain asset inventories and security baselines for critical manufacturing systems.
- Drive factory‑specific security roadmaps addressing risk, technical debt and end‑of‑life technology.
Risk & Vulnerability Management
- Own the OT vulnerability management lifecycle, governance and reporting.
- Ensure vulnerabilities identified via monitoring platforms, assessments and third parties are risk‑rated, tracked and owned.
Incident Response & Resilience
- Act as the senior OT security lead during manufacturing‑related security incidents.
- Define, maintain and exercise OT incident response playbooks and recovery plans, including ransomware scenarios.
- Ensure threat detection and monitoring technologies are fully leveraged.
Network & System Security
- Ensure appropriate segregation and segmentation of manufacturing environments from IT networks.
- Ensure secure remote access solutions are implemented without compromising security or safety.
Transformation & Delivery Accountability
- Define scope, priorities and sequencing for the Manufacturing Security transformation programme.
- Retain accountability for outcomes while leveraging assigned Project Management resources where appropriate. Ensure effective transition of delivered capabilities into BAU operation with clear ownership and support models.
Stakeholder & Partner Engagement
- Build trusted relationships with manufacturing leadership, engineering teams and operational staff.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Strong hands‑on experience in OT / Manufacturing environments with practical understanding of industrial networks, segmentation and production constraints.
- Demonstrable expertise in OT / Manufacturing Security and real‑world application of IEC 62443 principles.
- Experience acting as a technical authority, shaping security outcomes rather than simply executing plans.
- Strong incident management leadership experience in availability‑critical environments.
- Pragmatic, risk‑based mindset with the ability to balance security, safety and production continuity.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience owning security outcomes within complex, federated and international organizations.
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to prioritise activities and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve results.
- Experience working alongside Project Managers while retaining technical and risk accountability.
- Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GICSP, PMP or MSP.
- Experience of delivery in the cyber security space and knowledge of security frameworks & standards (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS, GDPR, SOC 2, IEC62443)