Menu
Warning This job advert has expired and applications have closed.

Supplier Assurance Lead

Job details
Posting date: 16 August 2024
Salary: £39,384 to £46,715 per year
Additional salary information: National: £39,384 - £43,169 London: £43,007 - £46,715
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 30 August 2024
Location: Birmingham
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 363389/2

Summary

This is an exciting time to work in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), a department at the heart of the UK’s relationship with the global economy. Our role is to promote UK trade globally by attracting foreign investment to our shores. We support UK businesses to take advantage of the global appetite for British goods and services. We also assist international companies to collaborate with UK suppliers.

The Security function’s role is to protect the Department’s people, assets, and information from those who wish to damage it. We do this by building a diverse team with expert, generalist, and entry level roles to work together to solve the challenges we face. This mix allows us to develop talent and to benefit from a wide range of life experiences. The security function has two separate elements, the Core Security Team and the Trade Negotiations Security Team. The role sits within the Core Security team.

This is a newly created role that will be steering our needs on supply chain security and assurance. You will be working collaboratively across DBT to ensure it complies with the required industry security elements of the Government’s Security Functional Standard.

As part of a newly created team, that will be steering our needs on 3rd Party Supply Chain Assurance, you will be working collaboratively across the organisation to ensure we comply with the required elements of the Government Functional Standard.

This role will be managed by a G7 and will be directed by the Information Risk, Assurance and Oversight Security Advisor.

The role will be involved in identifying vulnerabilities and assessing risks throughout the life cycle of a contract, beginning before contracts are let.

To facilitate this, the role shall:

  • Take a holistic approach to supplier assurance that considers and mitigates the security risks. Within the department you will be working with cyber security, data protection and Information and Risk Assurance Process (IRAP) teams.
  • Build a relationship with National Security Agencies, Government Security Group and other government departments on best practice supply chain security and ensure the relevant security policies prescribed by DBT and HM Government are met by suppliers.
  • Work on building security considerations into departmental contracting processes, including the requirement for suppliers to notify contract managers of security incidents or changes to the security profile of their organisation.
  • Ensure procurement is at the most suitable Government classification and where appropriate suppliers abide by facility security clearance assurance (facility security clearance previously called List X).
  • Conduct frequent assurance to verify that security measures are being met by suppliers and remain adequate.
  • Develop a culture through education and awareness whereby individuals understand that mitigating threats in industry is a collective responsibility whilst contract managers are responsible for the security of their assigned suppliers.