Director Information Security

Interim Security Director | Outside IR35 | Remote (UK) | 6 Months+ | Immediate Start | Excellent Rate

I’m supporting a large, complex professional services group on the appointment of an Interim Security Director to lead and mature their security function during a critical period of growth and transformation.

This is an interim leadership role with full accountability for security strategy, operations, GRC and stakeholder engagement.

You’ll take ownership of the end-to-end security landscape — technical, procedural and cultural — ensuring the organisation’s risk posture continues to strengthen while enabling business growth.

• Leading and stabilising the security function, setting clear direction and priorities
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to embed security into business and technology initiatives
• Overseeing day-to-day security operations, incident response and business continuity
• Driving security governance, compliance and assurance (ISO 27001 in particular)
• Strengthening third-party and supplier security assurance
• Providing clear, actionable reporting on risk, maturity and progress to leadership

• Proven experience operating at Security Director / Head of Security / CISO level in complex environments (this company has 10k employees, c. £1bn turnover)
• Strong background across security strategy, governance, risk, compliance and operational delivery
• Comfortable influencing at exec level while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused
• Track record of leading audits, assurance programmes and incident response frameworks
• Fully remote (UK-based)
• Senior‑level interim assignment with genuine scope and impact
• Immediate requirement

Director

Contract

• Information Technology
• Professional Services and Computer and Network Security