Cyber Project Manager
Posted Today by VIQU IT Recruitment
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Preston, Lancashire, PR1
Summary: The Cyber/Infrastructure Project Manager role focuses on delivering critical projects within the Energy/Utilities sector, ensuring that internal constraints do not hinder progress. The position requires proactive management of resources and stakeholder engagement to facilitate successful project outcomes. The role is hands-on and demands strong collaboration across business and technology teams. This is a hybrid position based in Preston, requiring on-site presence 2-3 days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and resolve internal data, process, and decision-making blockers quickly.
- Manage and mitigate business resource constraints actively.
- Surface, understand, and operationalise tacit knowledge and shadow processes.
- Align supplier activity to clear, testable outputs consistently.
- Deliver Cyber/Infrastructure projects effectively.
- Support projects in the Energy/Utilities industry and critical infrastructure.
- Deliver or support complex, cross-business IT/data programmes.
- Unblock delivery in resource-constrained environments.
- Work closely with third-party delivery partners.
- Define business change and processes effectively.
- Manage financial aspects of projects.
Key Skills:
- Experience in delivering Cyber/Infrastructure projects.
- Experience in the Energy/Utilities industry.
- Knowledge of critical infrastructure and NIS & CAF.
- Ability to deliver or support complex IT/data programmes.
- Strong engagement skills across business and technology teams.
- Experience in managing third-party delivery partners.
- Strong financial management skills.
Salary (Rate): £580 daily
City: Preston
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Cyber/ Infrastructure Project Manager - Energy/Utilities & Critical Infrastructure. NIS/CAFViqu are looking for a pro active, delivery-focused Senior Project Manager to support a programme of work by ensuring that internal constraints do not impede delivery, while holding key stakeholders to account in a collaborative, outcome-focused way.
This role is critical in ensuring that:
- Internal data, process, and decision-making blockers are identified and resolved quickly
- Business resource constraints are actively managed and mitigated
- Tacit knowledge and shadow processes are surfaced, understood, and operationalised
- Supplier activity is consistently aligned to clear, testable outputs
- Expereince of delivering Cyber/ Infrastructure Proejcts
- Expereince of delivering projects in the Energy/Utilities Industry
- Experience of Critical Infrastructure along with NIS & CAF
- Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT / data programmes
- Demonstrated ability to unblock delivery in resource-constrained environments
- Experience working closely with third-party delivery partners
- Strong experience of business change and process definition
- Strong financial management
This is a hands-on, intervention-heavy role, requiring strong engagement across business and technology teams.
This is a hybrid role that will require you to be on site in Preston - 2/3 days a week.
Duration 6 months - Insider IR35
Day rate - £500 - 580 a day - Inside of IR35