Cyber Security Project Manager

Role overview

Project delivery and governance

• Lead projects from definition through delivery, adoption and handover into business as usual.
• Create plans covering scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions and delivery dates; maintain proportionate project controls.
• Track delivery confidence, escalate material risks with options, and coordinate regulatory, audit and control commitments.
• Prepare concise updates for leadership, risk, audit and programme forums; support sustainable operational ownership and controls.

Collaboration and partners

• Coordinate Cyber, Platform Operations, Product, Engineering, Architecture, Service Management, business teams and external partners.
• Facilitate workshops, resolve blockers, agree accountable next steps and help teams balance competing demands.
• Coordinate third-party delivery against scope, milestones, quality, security and service expectations.
• Support statements of work, onboarding, delivery reviews and supplier governance with Commercial, Legal and senior stakeholders.

Continuous improvement

• Improve delivery practices using feedback, retrospectives, data, automation and collaboration tools.
• Reuse effective delivery patterns while adapting governance to project scale and risk.

Essential experience and skills

• Experience delivering cross-functional technology, cyber security, risk, compliance or operational resilience projects.
• Strong project planning, governance, RAID and dependency-management skills, including working with changing or incomplete information.
• Experience coordinating technical teams, business stakeholders and third-party partners.
• Clear communication and confidence working with senior stakeholders, specialists and delivery teams.
• Ability to translate risk, audit or control requirements into delivery plans and evidence-based status reporting.
• Commercial awareness covering scope, resource, suppliers, timelines and delivery trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of Agile and traditional project-delivery approaches.

Desirable skills

• Experience with identity and access management, security operations, cyber resilience, audit remediation or governance projects.