Cyber Capability Centre Delivery Lead

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Preston; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm is seeking a Cyber Capability Centre Delivery Lead to manage delivery activities in a Cyber Capability Centre. The role involves leading multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring effective cyber security, and collaborating with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have experience in project management, leadership, and cyber security knowledge. This position offers remote work with some travel required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of successfully delivering changes with high business impact.
• Applied knowledge in unfamiliar situations, maintaining and sharing knowledge.
• Understanding cyber security practices and environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the delivery of small to medium size change deliverables.
• Manage delivery costs and resources against agreed budgets.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and support deliverables efficiently.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Cyber security knowledge

Education

Degree level education, preferably in a related discipline

Formal Project Management training

Tools

Agile methodologies

PRINCE2 Practitioner

ITIL

Job description

Location: Remote working with occasional travel to client sites

Rate: £45.46 per hour

Duration: 6 Month Contract

The role

The Cyber Capability Centre Delivery Lead will report into the Cyber Capability Centre Delivery Manager and will work within a dedicated Cyber Capability Centre function, responsible for the planning and execution of delivery workstream activities. They will collaborate with other teams to ensure effective cyber security across the organization, forming and managing multi‑disciplinary delivery teams comprising subject matter experts throughout the EIT Cyber organisation. They will identify and plan activities as well as lead all aspects of the delivery lifecycle, including identification and request of resources, to ensure the work packages and products implemented add value to the business and influence the strategic direction of the business. They will apply knowledge, skills and training to deliver identified cyber security related changes to cost, timescales, quality and customer satisfaction, adhering to any defined internal BAE Systems delivery assurance processes and collaborating across sectors, lines of business and functions, including managing 3rd parties where required. They work under broad direction, are often self‑initiated, fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives, and analyse, design, plan, execute and evaluate work to time, cost and quality targets, establishing milestones and having a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities. They influence sponsors, stakeholders, suppliers and partners, produce progress reports, have responsibility for the work of others and allocate resources in line with priorities, engage with cross‑functional teams to ensure customer needs are met and facilitate collaboration between stakeholders. They implement policies aligned to EIT Cyber strategic plans, engage and coordinate with EIT Cyber SMEs and support resolution of complex issues. Key deliverables:

Key Deliverables

• Leadership: Provides effective leadership to each delivery team and suppliers within the Cyber Capability Centre portfolio and works regularly with senior customer and supplier stakeholders, being authoritative in such interactions.
• Collaboration & Communication: Forms good relationships with stakeholders, vendors, suppliers and partners to support deliverables efficiently; provides advice and guidance to support adoption of methods and/or tools and adherence to both Cyber Capability Centre and associated policies and standards; works closely with Cyber Security management teams to support ongoing maturity and improvement of cyber security services.
• Delivery Management: Leads and manages the delivery of small to medium‑size change deliverables, translating requirements into delivery plans with identified resources, key milestones and actions, proactively communicating risks, issues, opportunities, dependencies and constraints; manages business change as part of overall deliveries and captures lessons learned to ensure benefits are tracked.
• Budget Management: Manages delivery costs and resources against agreed budgets, taking appropriate action for any overspends and providing accurate forecasts to delivery completion.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively seeks opportunities for functional level improvements, reviews, shapes and continuously improves the capability centre delivery processes.

Knowledge

• Proven experience of successfully delivering small to medium‑size changes with high business impact.
• Proficient understanding, knowledge and experience of project management and delivery within Security & IT services domain.
• Applied knowledge effectively in unfamiliar situations, maintaining and sharing knowledge.
• Experience working within an environment with mature governance practices and processes.
• Knowledge of common project delivery methodologies, DevOps processes, metrics, roles and responsibilities.
• Aware of wider EIT policies and processes.
• Experience managing 3rd parties as part of delivery.
• Track record of delivering business outcomes.
• Understanding of cyber security practices and environments and ability to converse with cyber security SMEs to achieve defined outputs efficiently.

Skills

• Developed communication, presentation, diplomacy, leadership and interpersonal skills; demonstrates impactful communication in both formal and informal settings.
• Persuades and influences internal & external stakeholders.
• Builds successful teams, strong relationships and works within cross‑functional and remote teams.
• Delivery of small to medium complex IT / cyber deliveries, working with internal and third‑party IT providers.
• Manages changing priorities and multiple stakeholders while keeping end objectives in sight.
• Leads collaboration and cross‑functional working.
• Initiates personal and professional development and manages development opportunities.
• Advises on standards, methods, tools and applications; makes appropriate choices.
• Understands and evaluates organisational impact of new technologies and digital services.
• Analyses requirements, advises on scope and options for operational improvement.
• Assesses and evaluates risk.
• Makes proposals considering all requirements.
• Shares knowledge, encourages learning.
• Contributes to implementation of appropriate working practices and culture.

Qualifications

• Degree level education, preferably in a related discipline.
• Formal Project Management training, preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner or APM (PMDY).
• Experience in Agile project management.
• Foundational understanding of Cyber Security fundamentals.
• Experience in Change Management, Lean Six Sigma, preference for ITIL.
• Preference for experience and background in a fast‑paced, IT Security delivery environment.