Operations & Security Administrator

Hybrid position: working 3 days a week from our London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Globally, 80% of workers don’t have a desk or an office. These workers are the backbone of the global economy, the people we interact with every day in stores, on buses, in our hospitals, delivering our parcels, and maintaining our buildings. The current generation of workplace technology doesn’t fit their needs, Blink enables those people to be productive, informed, and engaged while on the move.

We've built a fresh approach to an old problem. Our goal is to be the #1 choice for the mobile enterprise, to build the workplace "super-app" that brings together in one place the people and information that matter.

We're motivated, positive and social; we're all different, but these traits tie us together. We work closely as a team and genuinely value each other's opinions. Most of all, we try and learn as much as we can from one another, through knowledge sharing and healthy debate.

💻 What will you be doing?

Blink must be a model in best practice when it comes to information security and data protection, being fully committed to continuous improvement in these areas. Reporting to the Head of Business Operations, you will drive our strategies forward, be a focal point for information security and risk matters and be responsible for shaping plans and execution.

Responsibilities Include:

• Managing our information security and data protection compliance strategy
• Implementing and successfully rolling out any new frameworks, as needed
• Monitoring implementation of policies, procedures, processes and tooling to achieve ongoing compliance with 
• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
• NHS Data Protection and Privacy Framework

• Preparing regular gap analysis and risk assessments, with assistance from experts where required, and 
• Defining a project plan to maintain full ongoing compliance in consultation with key internal stakeholders
• Working closely with internal stakeholders across the business, and particularly the engineering teams, to implement the changes required according to the project plan  

• Co-ordinate and enrich responses to RFPs and security questionnaires from existing and prospective customers
• Promote security and data protection awareness by creating and delivering training plans to ensure that all employees complete the relevant e-learning throughout the year

Ownership and maintenance of our external trust center and working to improve the quality of linked content

Run the supplier assessment and audit cycle at Blink

Keeping ahead of industry developments such as emerging security trends, risks, new guidance or standards and security enhancing technologies and proactively driving improvements, while tracking the success of initiatives via key metrics.

Requirements

We're looking for someone who is ambitious and wants to develop in a fast-growing company. The successful candidate will be resourceful and creative, able to pick up and implement new industry innovations quickly. You’ll empathise with customer and internal stakeholder pain points, foreseeing practical and scalable solutions. We’re also looking for:

• Experience implementing and/or maintaining compliance strategies for one or more of the standards.
• Experience working in or with a fast-growing organisation, working with the business and product & engineering teams to review and implement new processes and initiatives
• A self-starter who can work semi-autonomously and drive a large project forward and manage multiple stakeholders and dependencies
• Excellent inter-personal and influencing skills
• Commercially minded with the ability to quickly grasp and explain complex matters
• Strong working knowledge of UK, EU and US data protection laws a plus

• European Languages including French, German or Spanish would be beneficial

Benefits

You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll be working in a company with a strong mission and with a team that are ambitious and embarking on a journey that many start-ups can only dream of!

We offer the chance to take to market a product and solutions that is ‘of the moment’, with a proven ROI, and which often gets customer very excited in the very first meeting. Other benefits include:

• Competitive salary and generous equity allocations with significant upside potential

• 25 days annual leave per year, not including public holidays
• The equipment needed to do a great job
• Private Healthcare
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Social events (Company getaways, lunches, breakfasts, nights out)
• Convenient central London location

At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age or veteran status.