Senior Program Portfolio Lead (Cyber)
Posted 3 days ago by Axon Associates
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
City of London, UK
Summary: The Senior Program Portfolio Lead (Cyber) is responsible for structuring and organizing regional strategic delivery roadmaps, ensuring effective governance and accountability in the execution of cyber security transformations. This role requires strong leadership to manage stakeholder relationships, track progress against strategic targets, and drive a culture of delivery excellence. The position also involves developing financial models and high-quality executive materials while addressing challenges in the transformation roadmap. The role is hybrid, requiring presence in the central London office three to four days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the regional cyber security strategic implementation roadmap, ensuring commitments are tracked and reviewed.
- Strategic influencing and relationship management with key stakeholders regarding the cyber security strategy and delivery roadmap.
- Ensure plans for all objectives are maintained, regularly reviewed, and associated MI reporting is generated.
- Manage RAID and dependency log reviews for the transformation roadmap, addressing blockers and leveraging enablers.
- Drive accountability among plan owners and ensure prioritization of delivery plans.
- Build a cost model for security transformation in collaboration with financial planners.
- Apply technical and delivery expertise to challenge plans and solve problems.
- Develop high-quality executive-facing decks and MI material.
- Establish OKR approaches to track execution against objectives.
- Evaluate and plan the rollout of the Kroll service governance model across all GS pillars.
Key Skills:
- 15-20 years of IT Technology program experience within large financial institutions or heavily regulated corporates.
- 5+ years of delivering Cyber Security transformations.
- Consulting experience (desired).
- Execution and delivery oriented.
- Strong team leadership and people skills.
- Able to build and drive financial models, forecasting, and visual walkthroughs.
- Performance-driven negotiator and deal maker.
- Strong impact and influence capabilities.
- Flexible and comfortable in ambiguous situations.
- Proactively manage issues and/or opportunities.
- Self-starter with minimal direction.
- Fast-paced and outcome-oriented.
- Conflict and issue resolution and escalation.
- Detailed planner, output, and outcome oriented.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City of London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Purpose:
Strategy and Delivery: Structure and organize regional strategic delivery roadmaps and plans. Take control of planning for and execution of a broader roll out of a service governance model, where a proof of concept has been delivered.
Governance: Track and report progress against strategic execution targets. Define and implement a dashboard to track status against targets.
Leadership: Establish assertive management of the strategic delivery roadmap, ensuring individuals are held accountable for their plans and execution rigor is culturally Embedded.
Culture: Define a delivery framework, design and execute delivery governance, ensure MI reporting is accurate and risks/issues are surfaced and addressed.
Solution: Roll up sleeves to solve problems where necessary.
Peer Coach: Provide coaching on delivery and execution principles to lift other team members' skills in this discipline.
Primary Responsibilities:
Maintain the regional cyber security strategic implementation roadmap. Ensuring commitments are tracked, reviewed, change control is applied.
Strategic influencing/relationship management - ensure key stakeholders are aware of the regional cyber security strategy, its objectives, the delivery roadmap, plans, status.
Ensure plans are maintained for all objectives. Plans have assigned owners, are subject to regular review/updates/scrutiny and status review forums are held, with associated strategic delivery MI reporting generated.
Manage and maintain RAID and dependency log reviews for the transformation roadmap, ensuring blockers are tackled/addressed and enablers are identified and leveraged.
Drive a strong delivery drumbeat - hold plan owners accountable for their plans - ensure prioritization issues are addressed, and plan owners are clear delivery of their plans must be a top priority.
Build a cost model for security transformation - working closely with financial planners.
Drive strong leadership, by applying technical and delivery expertise to challenge plans, help solution problems.
Develop high quality, Executive facing decks and MI material
Strong understanding and ability to establish OKR approaches to tracking execution against objectives
Evaluate the Kroll service governance model deployed as a proof of concept for one pillar, build a plan to roll out the concept to all GS pillars along with broader plans to automate and operationalize into a run capability.
Experience required:
1) 15-20 years of IT Technology program experience within large financial institutions OR large and heavily regulated Corporates.
2) 5+ years of delivering Cyber Security transformations.
Desired :
1) Consulting Experience.
Capabilities:
Execution and delivery oriented
Strong team leadership and people skills
Able to build and drive financial models, forecasting and visual walkthroughs
Performance driven negotiator and deal maker
Strong impact and influence capabilities
Flexible and comfortable in ambiguous situations
Proactively manage issues and/or opportunities
Self-starter - able to work with minimal direction
Fast paced, and outcome oriented.
Conflict and issue resolution and escalation
Detailed planner, output and outcome (objective) oriented.
The position is inside IR35 and their hyrbid policy is 3 days (possibly 4) per week in their central London office.