Cyber Security Project Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Initialize IT
£454 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Glasgow and hybrid, UK
Summary: The Cyber Security Project Manager role in Glasgow involves leading the Cyber Delivery Assurance Team to deliver Cyber projects. The position requires extensive project management experience, particularly in Cyber and network transformation, while engaging with various stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. The role emphasizes strong communication, leadership, and financial management skills to ensure successful project delivery. This is a hybrid position requiring two days in the office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage Cyber projects within the Cyber Delivery Assurance Team.
- Engage with internal business customers, stakeholders, and senior managers throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate teams of technical and non-technical resources across multiple sites.
- Manage project plans, budgets, and stakeholder communications effectively.
- Make critical decisions and resolve issues that arise during project execution.
- Liaise with IT suppliers regarding deliverables and problem resolution.
Key Skills:
- Experience in delivery of Cyber and/or network transformation projects/programmes.
- Demonstrable experience in complex project delivery environments.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven leadership and decision-making abilities.
- Management of financial budgets for complex projects.
- Stakeholder management skills, including face-to-face communication.
- Ability to manage and deliver against project plans.
- Experience with Microsoft security tooling capabilities (desirable).
- Understanding of the Financial sector and business acumen.
- Exposure to Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Education in a technical/IT discipline.
Salary: £454 daily
City: Glasgow
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Cyber Security Project Manager - Glasgow (2 days from office), 6 months, £454
You will be an experienced Project Manager and will work within the Cyber Delivery Assurance Team, responsible for the delivery of Cyber projects.
Skills/experience
Experience in delivery of Cyber and/or network transformation projects/programmes
Demonstrable experience in a complex project delivery environment, with business and technology deliverables and/or changes involving external 3rd party providers.
Highly articulate with exceptional communications and inter-personal skills.
Proven leadership, influencing and decision making skills.
Proven management of financial budgets support delivery of complex projects, including internal and external costs.
Proven stakeholder management skills, including face-to-face communications and the creation of Management Information material.
Proven management and delivery against project plans, clearly understanding and communicating critical path and associated RAIDs
Desirable
Experience in delivery of Microsoft security tooling capabilities
Good understanding of the Financial sector - sound business acumen and judgment; ability to see and communicate technology challenges in business terms; ability to understand and deliver business value.
Exposure to multiple delivery methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
Ability to interpret stated business and technology strategic aims and effectively translate this into tangible project outcomes.
Education in a technical/IT discipline.
Role
Engaging, connecting and representing the needs of our internal business customers, stakeholders and senior managers throughout the project lifecycle from idea to implementation and benefit realisation.
Demonstrating and applying your experience of project management disciplines, including project/programme planning, risk/issue/budget and resource management, decision making skills; with an exceptional focus on delivery.
Leading and coordinating teams of diverse technical and non-technical resources across multiple geographic sites and engaging effectively with external 3rd party service providers.
Identifying key resources and managing senior internal and external stakeholders to ensure project/programme objectives are delivered.
Demonstrating personal flexibility and encouraging flexibility by other team members in pursuit of achieving project objectives on schedule, on budget and to the required standards.
Taking accountability, assessing situations and making critical decisions when faced with complex demands and issues that can, and will, arise throughout the project lifecycle.
Liaison with IT suppliers with regards to plan deliverables and problem resolution.