The Role
End-to-end management and delivery of small engagements (<£100k) engagements to ensure successful delivery, high quality and added value to our clients by:
1. Understanding their business challenges and the threats they face and helping them navigate the increasingly complex business and technology regulatory environment across all sectors and specifically for IGH
2. Advising on cyber resilience governance, frameworks and operating models and how to optimise their approach to cyber resilience controls and risk management, while getting the balance right between protection, detection, reaction and response to resilience issues
3. Linking resilience to other consultancy offerings, such as risk management and IT transformation to provide holistic support to our clients
4. Leading small engagements as a trusted Engagement Manager (<£100k)
5. Leading the development of small proposals (<£100k)
6. Proactively leading parts of service development and be known as the SME for the developed service
7. Coaching and developing of junior team members through sharing of experience and knowledge, as well as managing the performance and development of engagement team members and appraisee(s)
8. Supporting the management of the Cyber Resilience capability by leading one focus area to support the team
Leadership & Management:
As a Manager in the Cyber Resilience team, you will be working closely with the capability lead and the Senior Managers to support the management of the Cyber Resilience team and to deliver engagements. You will have a team of about 10 Assistant Managers and Analyst reporting into you and seeing you as a role model. You will manage multiple, small engagements and will be accountable for engagement management activities, unless you are providing SME guidance only in an engagement.
Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:
As a Manager in the Cyber Resilience team, you will be helping both grow our business and also ensure our teams are able to deliver high quality advice to clients. You should expect to be involved in a wide range of small to medium engagements, ranging from executive level exercises and threat reviews, through optimisation of client resilience controls and large resilience programmes, to providing specialist support in areas such as business continuity, technology and cyber resilience and GDPR.
Our clients are under regulatory scrutiny, but are also continually battling to match a rapidly changing global business threat landscape while harnessing the opportunities offered by digital services. As a Manager in our team, we expect you to understand the business world across different industries, and to be able to translate complex risk and resilience issues into straightforward, credible, jargon free advice to our clients; while making sure we can deliver the support they require.
Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:
As a Manager in the Cyber Resilience team, you will be part of the Cyber Resilience capability as part of the wider Cyber team, specialising in Sectors clients but also supporting FS and IGH clients.
You will be an Engagement Manager and will be trusted to deliver small engagements successfully to budget.
The Person:
Skills and Experience
9. Track record within the business community showing understanding of the business, threat and regulatory issues faced by clients
10. Track record within the corporates community showing an understanding of the business, threat and regulatory issues faced by clients
11. Proven experience in one or more core disciplines: Business Resilience, Technology Resilience, Cyber Resilience Crisis Management:Business Resilience - Ability to identify and assess complex business risks and controls, and articulate mitigating actions to various levels of a businessTechnology Resilience - Have delivered large complex technology resilience programmes understanding technical complexity, strategy and change Cyber Resilience - Understands and delivers cyber risk key controls & compliance for large organisations and is able to articulate resilience solutions to these risksCrisis Management – Participated in strategic C-level crisis management exercises that simulate major disruption to our client base
12. Proven experience of successfully managing projects in a commercial environment, ensuring the delivery of high quality work on time and to budget
13. Proven ability to lead work at sustained levels of high intensity, and inspire drive and resilience in others
14. Proven ability to analyse problems, identify core issues and recommend appropriate solutions
15. Proven ability in taking appropriate action after monitoring/reviewing the progress and performance of others
16. Degree level qualified, MSc in Business Continuity, Information Security, IT or relevant subject (preferred)
17. Recognised risk and resilience qualifications (e.g. CBCI, CISSP, CISM, etc.)
18. Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), negotiation and project management skills
19. Prince 2 Project Management or ITIL Qualifications (desirable)
20. Understanding of a wide range of information security and IT methodologies, principles, technologies and techniques
21. Experience in and an understanding of the business risks faced by clients within a specific industry and the impact to their business
22. Good networking skills
23. Ability to interact with clients at mid-management levels