OT Cyber Resilience Lead

Job Description :

Operational Technology Cyber Resilience Lead Type:
Permanent

About us  With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments — from everyday connections to landmark celebrations. Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other.

Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other. Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more. Join our Global Engineering Team Diageo’s Global Engineering team is a trusted partner that safely delivers best in class engineering solutions, bringing Diageo products to the world.

We succeed together through our talented people, collaboration, agility, and creativity.

About the role

The Operational Technology (OT) and digital space are constantly evolving. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of Diageo's manufacturing operational technology.

We are looking for someone who is ambitious and enterprising, with outstanding leadership qualities that enables them to assume a critical role in the future of Global Engineering. As part of the Global Engineering Digital & Automation Team you will lead the OT cyber resilience programme. Reporting into the OT Cyber Security Governance Manager, this role will focus on the NIST pillars of Respond and Recover.

Working across Diageo’s global manufacturing sites, you will partner with Operations Teams, GBS and the wider Digital & Automation team to continually refine and embed our resilience plans. Success in this role is built on relationships and communication, underpinned by strong technical knowledge. We are looking for someone that can take complex technical detail and communicate it effectively to non-technical stakeholders.

We are looking for a leader that understands how to manage (OT) cyber risk. You will have expertise in leading change programmes and communicating across all levels of the business from site-based Engineers to CISO. You will demonstrate leadership, proven delivery track record and technical expertise in the cyber protection of Industrial Control and Automation Systems using international standards.

If you are an autonomous, flexible, positive thinker, who enjoys working globally across different markets, functions, time zones, cultures and styles … we want to hear from you!

You will be responsible for:

Owning and embedding the OT cyber resilience strategy, in line with the overall OT Cyber Security Governance Strategy Supporting sites in implementing OT Cyber Resilience plans

Building training and awareness programmes to build organisational capability

Lead site stakeholder engagement across all levels from OT Leads to Operations Directors Communicate and articulate technical risks and mitigation plans

Build compelling arguments and outline benefits and secure funding.

Build great relationships and partnerships internally and externally

Ensure a coherent approach is used to build methodologies leveraging existing industry frameworks and standards

Guide, motivate and lead the OT community to meet Diageo’s cybersecurity objectives through positive engagement

Develop and maintain reporting metrics/dashboards to reflect the programme’s effectiveness

To be successful in this role, you will need:

The OT and Digital space are constantly evolving and changing, candidates need to move fast and adapt to continuous change situations. Working globally across different markets, functions, time zones, cultures and styles is…