Global OT Risk Senior Lead

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.

• 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.