Cyber Security Lead 

Overview

As Cyber Security Lead, you drive transformational change in cyber risk management across QBE’s core business and partners. You will guide operational delivery and advisory work, shaping risk mitigation and secure by design practices. You collaborate with cross‑functional teams to outpace threats, translate deep technical insight into business outcomes, and lead agile, policy-aligned cyber initiatives. This role offers impact across Europe in a high‑visibility security capability with a strong focus on resilience.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days holiday a year with option to buy up to 2 additional days
• Flexible working options
• Pension plan with 10% employer contributions

Responsibilities

• Deliver a effective cyber and information security capability across QBE with engagement and risk mitigation
• Develop cyber and information security experience across QBE to build awareness
• Build collaborative relationships to identify and solve root cause problems
• Take accountability for identifying security weaknesses and seeing mitigations to completion
• Drive cyber engagement to ensure issues are reported to stakeholders
• Act with integrity and transparency in threat and risk identification
• Role model solution creation, negotiation and agile risk mitigation
• Drive development and assurance of the cyber practice, including policy and templates
• Manage and quality assure cyber services and outsourced security aligned to SLAs
• Foster collaboration across QBE business value streams
• Track compliance and security benefits to demonstrate impact

Key requirements

• Resilience and tenacity in managing 24×7 cyber threats
• Solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to develop cyber services and talent
• Adversarial mindset and deep technical application to business
• Expertise in areas such as Identity and Access Management, Data Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Third Party Risk, Cyber Security Infrastructure and Operations
• Strong decision-making for complex threats
• Excellent communication, negotiation and conflict management skills
• Clear writing and ability to present complex problems succinctly
• Curious, fast-paced, agile mindset

• Resilience
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Identity and Access Management
• Data Security
• Threat and Vulnerability Management

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