Security Project Manager
Whitehall Resources require a Security Project Manager to work with a key client on a 3 month initial contract.
*This role will require on site work in Cambridge 2 days per week.
*Inside IR35.
Security Project Manager
Role Overview We are seeking an experienced, delivery-focused Security Project Manager to join the Enterprise Security (ES) function within the Security Transformation & Performance (ST&P) team. You will take end-to-end ownership of complex security transformation projects, working across Enterprise Security, Enterprise IT, business functions and external partners to deliver agreed outcomes. This is a hands-on role requiring strong delivery discipline, proactive problem-solving and confident stakeholder leadership. We are looking for someone who brings structure to ambiguity, establishes credible and achievable plans, constructively challenges assumptions and drives accountability across teams. Success means taking ownership, anticipating challenges, resolving blockers and providing leadership with genuine confidence in delivery – not simply reporting on progress.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Delivery & Planning
- Lead security transformation projects end-to-end, from initiation and planning through implementation, operational transition and closure.
- Translate objectives into clearly defined scope, deliverables, milestones, measurable outcomes and integrated delivery plans.
- Establish realistic delivery commitments, validating resource availability, capacity and dependencies with functional leads before agreeing timelines.
- Drive execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and progress against agreed milestones.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date delivery plans, identifying deviations early and taking corrective action to protect delivery commitments.
- Ensure appropriate governance, change management, stage gates and operational handover requirements are met.
- Risk Management & Problem-Solving
- Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and resource constraints, assessing their impact on delivery.
- Take ownership of resolving blockers, working collaboratively with stakeholders to develop and implement practical solutions.
- Constructively challenge unrealistic timelines, assumptions and unsupported commitments, using evidence to inform decisions.
- Develop credible recovery and route-to-green plans for initiatives at risk, with clear actions, owners and milestones.
- Escalate issues early where necessary, presenting options, recommendations and decisions required rather than simply highlighting problems.
- Stakeholder Leadership & Communication
- Build trusted relationships with sponsors, technical leads, business stakeholders and external delivery partners.
- Lead and influence cross-functional, geographically distributed teams, driving accountability and timely decision-making without direct authority.
- Manage competing priorities and stakeholder expectations, maintaining transparency and ensuring delivery concerns are surfaced early.
- Produce concise, accurate and evidence-based project reporting, clearly communicating progress, delivery confidence, emerging risks and required actions.
- Maintain reliable project information in Jira and Confluence, providing clear updates to sponsors, steering groups and senior leadership.
- Business Outcomes & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain clear alignment between project delivery, strategic objectives, business benefits and intended security outcomes.
- Balance delivery pace, quality, risk, resource constraints and business priorities when assessing options and trade-offs.
- Ensure projects deliver measurable value through security improvements, risk reduction, operational effectiveness or business enablement.
- Contribute to improving ST&P’s delivery standards, processes and ways of working, strengthening consistency, predictability and stakeholder confidence.
- Identify opportunities to simplify delivery activities and leverage automation or AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency and reporting.
Skills & Experience
Essential Proven experience delivering complex technology, cybersecurity or enterprise transformation projects, with strong end-to-end ownership and accountability for outcomes.
Strong technical understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure, systems and security technologies, with the ability to engage confidently with technical specialists, understand dependencies and challenge delivery assumptions.
Excellent planning and delivery management skills, including resource forecasting, dependency management, risk mitigation and recovery planning.
Proactive, solutions-focused mindset, anticipating challenges, resolving blockers and driving delivery without constant direction.
Confidence to constructively challenge assumptions, unrealistic commitments and senior stakeholders, using sound judgement and evidence.
Strong leadership and influencing skills, building trusted relationships and driving accountability across cross-functional teams and external partners.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including clear, concise and decision-focused reporting to senior leadership.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, evaluating trade-offs, recommending solutions and maintaining delivery momentum.
Desirable
Experience delivering cybersecurity transformation, security technology implementations, remediation or security maturity improvements.
Experience delivering technically complex cybersecurity or IT infrastructure projects, including security technology implementations, remediation or security capability improvements.
Understanding of enterprise security capabilities and frameworks, such as IAM, network security, NIST CSF or ISO 27001.
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, automation or AI-enabled tools, ideally within globally distributed or high-technology organisations.
Qualifications
PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, Agile or equivalent project management certification is desirable.
A technical background in IT, infrastructure, engineering or cybersecurity, gained through professional experience, qualifications or certifications, is highly desirable.
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.