Security Manager - SOC

As a Security Manager within Tesco’s Security Operations Centre (SOC), focused on transformation and change, you will lead the evolution of our cyber defence capabilities, ensuring the proactive protection of a retail ecosystem that serves millions of customers. You will empower and support the development of a high-performing team of analysts, aligning operational outcomes with Tesco’s strategic business priorities. This role is central to maintaining operational resilience whilst driving continuous change across people, process and technology.

Acting as a guardian of both performance and transformation, you will enable innovation, including the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to deliver a modern, customer-first cyber defence capability. This role reports to the SOC Manager and forms a key role within our Investigation & Incident Response management team.

As a Security Manager within Tesco’s Security Operations Centre (SOC), focused on transformation and change, you will lead the evolution of our cyber defence capabilities, ensuring the proactive protection of a retail ecosystem that serves millions of customers. You will empower and support the development of a high-performing team of analysts, aligning operational outcomes with Tesco’s strategic business priorities. This role is central to maintaining operational resilience whilst driving continuous change across people, process and technology.

Acting as a guardian of both performance and transformation, you will enable innovation, including the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to deliver a modern, customer-first cyber defence capability. This role reports to the SOC Manager and forms a key role within our Investigation & Incident Response management team.

• Lead
  SOC Transformation & Change: Define and deliver the SOC roadmap, ensuring new capabilities (process, tooling, AI, and operating models) are effectively scoped, implemented, and embedded without compromising operational performance.
• Drive
  Operational Excellence: Ensure the SOC operates at high performance, maintaining strong detection and response capability, service reliability, and measurable outcomes aligned to business risk.
• Enable
  Innovation: Champion the adoption of Applied AI and automation to optimise SOC workflows, reduce analyst toil, and improve the quality and speed of investigation and response.
• Develop
  High-Performing Teams: Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of security professionals, fostering a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering-led ways of working.
• Strengthen
  Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a senior interface between Cyber Defence, Technology, and Business stakeholders, clearly communicating risk, influencing outcomes, and aligning priorities.
• Own
  Service & Product Mindset: Embed a product and service-oriented approach within the SOC, ensuring changes are outcome-driven, measurable, and aligned to customer and organisational needs.

• Leadership
  & Team Development: Demonstrable experience leading and managing technical teams, including coaching, performance development, and building inclusive, high-performing environments.
• Strategic
  Thinking & Problem Solving: Proven ability to define and execute strategic roadmaps, translating complex challenges into clear, actionable plans aligned to business objectives.
• Communication
  & Influencing: Strong capability to communicate complex cyber risks effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decisions at senior levels.
• Operational
  Cyber Expertise: Demonstrable understanding of threat detection and incident response practices, ensuring the SOC delivers effective, timely, and…