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Job Description :

Global OT Risk Senior Lead

Location - Diageo locations across the UK and Ireland, travel to site required

Permanent / Full-time

Closing date: 19 October 2025

Join our Cybersecurity team

Diageo Global Engineering team is a trusted partner to safely deliver best in class Engineering Solutions that bring Diageo products to the World. We succeed together through our dedicated people, collaboration, agility and creativity.

Join Diageo’s Cybersecurity Team as a key player in shaping our manufacturing cybersecurity landscape. As part of Global Engineering, our focus is on delivering pioneering digital solutions and cybersecurity strategies, ensuring our brands remain secure and future-ready.

About the Role

As the **OT Global Cyber Risk Advisor** , you will lead our global OT cyber risk program, driving initiatives that strengthen our overall risk management strategy. Reporting directly to the **Global OT Cybersecurity Manager** , you’ll apply your expertise in OT/IT governance, risk, security regulations, and compliance to help safeguard our operations worldwide.

In this role, you’ll also be responsible for monitoring the external environment to identify emerging business and regulatory challenges, as well as potential industry threats that could impact our company.

Key responsibilities include:

+ Updating senior leaders on cybersecurity risks and initiatives through key risk indicator reports.

+ Overseeing cyber risk assessments for all global regions, including North America, Europe, and Asia, that consider the changing risk landscape

+ Evaluating Diageo's vulnerability to potential risks, both internal and external, that could affect our operations. Analysing the probability of incidents occurring and their potential impact on Diageo's assets and critical supply chain.

+ Maintaining a comprehensive record of individual risks, threats, their descriptions, control measures in place, additional actions needed to further reduce the risk, risk status, and target measurement of the level of risk.

+ Supporting sites in implementing necessary risk measures, such as regulatory assessments, bow tie analysis, and threat scenarios, to identify the most realistic cyber risk scenarios that could affect an OT environment.

+ Keeping sites informed of any changes to regional security regulations and their potential impacts, such as NIS2.

+ Ensuring that relevant external threats are assessed and communicated for their potential impacts on Diageo sites and critical assets and supply chain.

+ Facilitating site table-top exercises to simulate various threat scenarios, including those involving critical suppliers, and testing their effectiveness in mitigating these threats.

+ Ensuring that sites are accurately tracking and reporting on KPIs for the OT Cyber Risk Management standard.

+ Effectively communicating and aligning cyber risk strategies with global functions and senior partners.

+ Championing a culture of cyber risk awareness and proactive management.

+ Providing insights on Diageo’s OT cyber risk position, ensuring adherence to industry standards.

+ Maintaining high cybersecurity standards across all OT activities.

+ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support key company initiatives.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

+ Significant experience in cybersecurity, risk management, or related fields.

+ Strong strategic and technical skills in risk assessment, data analysis, and decision-making.

+ Proven ability to work with senior leadership and across cultures to get results.

+ Clear, effective presentation and influencing skills.

+ Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or IEC 62443.

+ CRISC, CISA, CISSP, CISM, ITIL, PRINCE2, or equivalent (preferred).

+ Resilient and flexible in the face of change.

If you are a proactive individual with a passion for cybersecurity, we’d love to hear from you.

Working with Us

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

St James Gate

Additional Locations :

Edinburgh Park, Leven Processing, Onyx, Glasgow

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-10-09

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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