TrustID
Industry Lead
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Industry Lead
The Industry Lead is TrustID's & uChecks primary source of regulatory and market intelligence across our core sectors - Hospitality, Education, and Care - and the face of the businesses with industry bodies, suppliers, and partners. The role ensures the businesses, their products, and their customers stay ahead of regulatory change, while also leading external-facing thought leadership that builds TrustID's & uChecks reputation with partners and large clients.
Key Responsibilities
Regulatory Expertise
- Represent the businesses on relevant industry bodies across identity & background screening to gather intelligence and maintain visibility
- Track regulatory developments affecting Hospitality, Education, and Care sectors
- Coordinate and channel feedback from all industry bodies
- Liaise with suppliers to understand market and industry shifts affecting the businesses or their customers
Internal Communication
- Summarise regulatory and market changes for the wider business
- Work with Product, Compliance, and other relevant business stakeholders to keep them abreast of regulatory changes
- Attend supplier reviews alongside Product, Compliance, and other relevant stakeholders to feed in our requirements to our partners
- Work with Sales & Marketing to keep customer-facing collateral and content current
Partners & Large Clients
- Support the production of partner-facing updates on key regulatory and market change
- Lead webinars and thought leadership activity for partners, direct clients, and group clients
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Strategy
- Work with the MD and Leadership Team to feed regulatory and market intelligence into uCheck and TrustID's long-term strategy, including input on vendor and partner selection
Experience
- Proven experience in background screening or identity verification
- Working knowledge of, or strong aptitude to quickly learn, regulatory frameworks relevant to Hospitality, Education, and Care
- Confident public speaker
- Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable operating across Product, Compliance, Sales & Marketing, and senior leadership
- Excellent written communication skills
- Experience representing an organisation on industry bodies or trade associations - desirable
- Familiarity with DBS, RTW, or DVS regulatory frameworks - desirable
- Experience working with or managing supplier relationships - desirable
Relevant Experiences
We’re open to applications from all sectors or roles but we think this role may suit,
- Candidates with product experience in Background Screening, HR Tech or Identity who loves the regulatory side of the market
- Candidates from a compliance background in Background Screening, HR Tech or Identity who wants to be more customer & market facing
- Candidates with account management experience in Background Screening, HR Tech or Identity who wants to spend more time understanding the future of the market
- Candidates who have done a similar industry relations role before in an adjacent market
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About TrustID
TrustID is the UK market leader in Right to Work verification and a certified Digital Verification Service provider, supporting identity checks for over 4,500 organizations. The company’s technology validates more than 16,000 global identity documents, combining automated fraud checks with expert human analysis to support HR, recruitment, and compliance teams.
TrustID enables organizations to meet Right to Work, Right to Rent, KYC, and DBS obligations through quick, user-friendly digital journeys that can be completed on smartphones or tablets. With UK-based support and analyst teams available seven days a week, TrustID blends automation with human expertise while embedding privacy by design and strong security across every identity journey.
TrustID works closely with its sister company, uCheck, who support over 85,000 customers to do their background screening.
Both businesses are part of The Citation Group, who provide global compliance solutions for over 120,000 businesses, helping organizations protect people and their data.
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