Industry
IT & Telecomms
Job type
Permanent / Full Time
Location
Canterbury
The Role
- CISO-level role owning cyber security and enterprise architecture
- Lead cyber uplift, embedding frameworks into business decisions
- Influence execs on risk, resilience and technology investment
The Opportunity
About the opportunity
Foodstuffs South Island operates a large and operationally critical digital environment, supporting more than 180 stores, distribution centres and support teams across Te Waipounamu. As a cooperative, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach – technology and cyber security decisions need to make sense across sites that range in size, scale, and complexity.
We’ve already done the heavy lifting to put strong cyber security, architecture and assurance frameworks in place. The next stage is about making those frameworks stick – embedding them into everyday decision-making, lifting consistency across the organisation, and ensuring they support our efforts to feed the South Island.
This role exists to provide enterprise leadership that enables Foodstuffs South Island to stay resilient and well governed, while making sensible, well-informed choices about risk, investment and technology as our environment continues to evolve.
About the role
As Head of Cyber Security & Architecture, you will lead Foodstuffs South Island’s enterprise approach to cyber security, resilience, technology assurance, and enterprise architecture. The role operates at the intersection of risk, technology, and delivery – enabling the cooperative to balance resilience, pace, and pragmatic decision-making in a complex and evolving threat landscape.
Reporting to the Group Head of Digital Services and operating as a member of the Digital Services Leadership Team, you’ll provide senior leadership, direction, and specialist guidance across cyber security and architecture. With core frameworks and structures already established, your focus will be on embedding them across the cooperative, educating and empowering stakeholders, and enabling the enhancement of their effectiveness as the organisation and its digital environment evolve.
Working within a cooperative environment, you’ll engage with stakeholders who bring a wide range of perspectives and expectations around cyber security. You’ll play a central role in shaping a cyber-safe culture – building shared understanding, lifting confidence, and bringing people on the journey as Foodstuffs South Island continues its enterprise risk and resilience uplift.
Key accountabilities
· Lead and develop the Cyber Security team, building capability, accountability, and a strong security culture across the cooperative.
· Set and lead the enterprise cyber security strategy and maturity roadmap, aligned to business strategy and risk appetite, with clear 12–24 month priorities and outcomes.
· Lead the cooperative’s approach to cyber resilience, incident readiness, response coordination, recovery preparedness, and lessons-learned improvement.
· Strengthen third-party and supply-chain security oversight, ensuring material risks are understood, escalated, and managed appropriately.
· Lead the enterprise architecture capability to ensure strategic technology decisions support security, resilience, scalability, and alignment with business priorities.
· Partner across Digital, Risk, and business leadership to embed security-by-design and risk-informed decision making across change initiatives, platforms, and emerging AI use cases.
About you
You’re a senior cyber security leader with the judgement, credibility, and influence to lead at an enterprise level. You can translate complex cyber and technology risks into practical priorities, clear trade-offs, and confident decisions. You bring a strong grasp of governance, resilience, assurance, and strategic planning – not just operational security delivery.
You’ll also bring
· Significant experience leading cyber security across large or complex organisations.
· A strong track record of defining cyber strategy, improving organisational maturity, and influencing enterprise investment decisions.
· Experience advising senior leaders and governance forums on cyber risk, resilience, and control effectiveness.
· Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams, while lifting accountability and security culture across the wider organisation.
· Strong commercial and strategic judgement, with the ability to balance business enablement, delivery pace, and risk reduction.
· Calm, credible leadership in the context of security incidents, crisis response, and high-pressure decision making.
· A collaborative style and the ability to influence across technology, risk, and business functions without relying solely on formal authority.
· Exposure to AI governance, data protection, and modern regulatory or assurance expectations would be advantageous.
If you’d like to have a confidential discussion about this opportunity, feel free to reach out to me directly (Clinton - 021 234 0609). I’m happy to share more detail and context around the role.
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Foodstuffs South Island operates a large and operationally critical digital environment, supporting more than 180 stores, distribution centres and support teams across Te Waipounamu. As a cooperative, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach – technology and cyber security decisions need to make sense across sites that range in size, scale, and complexity.
We’ve already done the heavy lifting to put strong cyber security, architecture and assurance frameworks in place. The next stage is about making those frameworks stick – embedding them into everyday decision-making, lifting consistency across the organisation, and ensuring they support our efforts to feed the South Island.
This role exists to provide enterprise leadership that enables Foodstuffs South Island to stay resilient and well governed, while making sensible, well-informed choices about risk, investment and technology as our environment continues to evolve.
About the role
As Head of Cyber Security & Architecture, you will lead Foodstuffs South Island’s enterprise approach to cyber security, resilience, technology assurance, and enterprise architecture. The role operates at the intersection of risk, technology, and delivery – enabling the cooperative to balance resilience, pace, and pragmatic decision-making in a complex and evolving threat landscape.
Reporting to the Group Head of Digital Services and operating as a member of the Digital Services Leadership Team, you’ll provide senior leadership, direction, and specialist guidance across cyber security and architecture. With core frameworks and structures already established, your focus will be on embedding them across the cooperative, educating and empowering stakeholders, and enabling the enhancement of their effectiveness as the organisation and its digital environment evolve.
Working within a cooperative environment, you’ll engage with stakeholders who bring a wide range of perspectives and expectations around cyber security. You’ll play a central role in shaping a cyber-safe culture – building shared understanding, lifting confidence, and bringing people on the journey as Foodstuffs South Island continues its enterprise risk and resilience uplift.
Key accountabilities
· Lead and develop the Cyber Security team, building capability, accountability, and a strong security culture across the cooperative.
· Set and lead the enterprise cyber security strategy and maturity roadmap, aligned to business strategy and risk appetite, with clear 12–24 month priorities and outcomes.
· Lead the cooperative’s approach to cyber resilience, incident readiness, response coordination, recovery preparedness, and lessons-learned improvement.
· Strengthen third-party and supply-chain security oversight, ensuring material risks are understood, escalated, and managed appropriately.
· Lead the enterprise architecture capability to ensure strategic technology decisions support security, resilience, scalability, and alignment with business priorities.
· Partner across Digital, Risk, and business leadership to embed security-by-design and risk-informed decision making across change initiatives, platforms, and emerging AI use cases.
About you
You’re a senior cyber security leader with the judgement, credibility, and influence to lead at an enterprise level. You can translate complex cyber and technology risks into practical priorities, clear trade-offs, and confident decisions. You bring a strong grasp of governance, resilience, assurance, and strategic planning – not just operational security delivery.
You’ll also bring
· Significant experience leading cyber security across large or complex organisations.
· A strong track record of defining cyber strategy, improving organisational maturity, and influencing enterprise investment decisions.
· Experience advising senior leaders and governance forums on cyber risk, resilience, and control effectiveness.
· Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams, while lifting accountability and security culture across the wider organisation.
· Strong commercial and strategic judgement, with the ability to balance business enablement, delivery pace, and risk reduction.
· Calm, credible leadership in the context of security incidents, crisis response, and high-pressure decision making.
· A collaborative style and the ability to influence across technology, risk, and business functions without relying solely on formal authority.
· Exposure to AI governance, data protection, and modern regulatory or assurance expectations would be advantageous.
If you’d like to have a confidential discussion about this opportunity, feel free to reach out to me directly (Clinton - 021 234 0609). I’m happy to share more detail and context around the role.
CS4027975