Supplier Intelligence Lead

Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber Security
Salary range: £57,600 - circa £75,000 depending on experience
Location:  UK Hybrid with occasional travel to a key Hub - Glasgow or Gosforth.

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Our Team
At Virgin Money Threat Intelligence, we deliver accurate and actionable analysis to help the bank prevent and respond to network defence, fraud, supplier and insider threats. We are in an exciting growth phase, with a mandate to build out our Cyber Fraud Fusion intelligence. This is a highly collaborative team on a mission to become an industry-leading intelligence function. The role is critical to our ability to defend customers from a wide range of fraud threats, with an opportunity to create a new capability that interoperates between our Cyber Security and Fraud Functions.   

What you’ll be doing

• Providing authoritative analysis and subject-matter expertise about cyber-enabled fraud, helping guide decision-making to ensure that the most severe and significant threats to our customers are intercepted
• Implementing Intelligence Requirements and an Intelligence Collection Plan for cyber-enabled fraud threats to Virgin Money and our customers
• Engaging with vendors and external/industry partners to provide an informed evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities arising from these relationships
• Developing and maintaining a Fraud Attack Chain/Mitigation Matrix to enable the organisation to identify and intercept threats at the earliest possible point in criminal journeys
• Providing first-class people leadership to a small but mighty team, supporting and mentoring career journeys and maintaining a positive and inclusive team culture
• Representing Threat Intelligence by providing assessments and recommendations to an array of technical and executive stakeholders, with a focus on Fraud senior leaders
• Contributing to wider Threat Intelligence strategic planning, including the development of 1-3 year action plans, resourcing decisions, and engagement with the wider Nationwide Group

We need you to have

• Extensive subject-matter expertise relating to the fraud threat landscape
• Ability and willingness to translate intelligence into concrete, actionable recommendations (written and verbal) for stakeholders
• An understanding of how to set problem statements and hypotheses which provide scope for intelligence collection
• Extensive experience working with intelligence and fraud analytics platforms (e.g., Recorded Future, Intel471, Quantexa, BioCatch or similar)
• Great leadership behaviours and stakeholder management – joining up, collaborating and pushing for the greater good
• First-rate People Leadership experience: building relationships, coaching, empowering and giving space to grow

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience in Cyber Fraud Fusion, Fraud Intelligence, Threat Intelligence or a closely related field at another financial institution
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering and/or financial crime investigations best practice
• Familiarity of data analytics, graph analytics or relational analysis as applied to the fraud threat environment

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.