Senior Security Programme Manager Permanent Reading – Hybrid-working Context: Reporting to the Head of Information Security, the Senior Security Programme Manager is a critical role in planning, tracking, and communicating the effectiveness of the security remediations, operations and risk management and aligning the security function to the business.
What you can expect to be doing: Take accountability for identifying, managing and co-ordinating the Information Security team demand, activities and business engagement.
Ensuring the security team proactively manage the security business outcomes.
Proactively manage and successfully orchestrate large, complex security activities, solutions and remediations, to achieve agreed business outcomes and performance targets Engage with the business to understand and manage demand into the security team Understand the key business activities in the wider organisation and ensure security requirements are built into these programmes Manage dependencies between the business and the security functions Manage budget and resource of the security team Define and manage the operating rhythm of the security team, the security team activities, and actions and risks arising from these activities To manage budget demand and ensure funding is secured for the security activities Ensure governance and reporting are managed and of good quality Promote the awareness and training delivery into the business What we are looking for: Understanding and experience of key Information Security frameworks and industry standards/regulations (CSF 2, CAF, ISO27001, TSA) Significant and extensive experience of initiating, directing and managing the delivery of large scale, complex security projects and portfolios.
Significant experience of supervising and managing teams of retained resource and key partners to deliver large and highly complex projects and portfolios to agreed time, cost and quality.
Extensive experience of formal Project/Programme Management in a technology industry (mobile telecommunications desirable but not essential, other industries experience will also be recognised).
Experience working in telco or related environment such as, SCADA and ICS or similar background also applicable Experience delivering security solutions and services such as SIEM, IDS, SOC, IAM, PAM, TVM.
A proven track record of bringing industry best practice into an organisation and using this to drive continuous improvement.
Experience of managing remotely located, cross-functional teams.
Nice to have Demonstrable experience of process development and optimisation