Senior Cyber Security Manager - Citizen Development

McKinsey & Company; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinsey & Company in London seeks a senior leader to own governance and controls for citizen development and AI tooling across the firm. You will partner with delivery groups and risk teams to design accountability and metrics, ensuring safe, effective deployment of AI-enabled initiatives.

You will establish cadence, reporting, and interfaces with Core units such as Client Service Enablement, Platform McKinsey, and technology teams, while maintaining senior relationships to drive value and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cyber program or initiative management, technology governance, technology risk, or a related discipline, including time spent running a cross-organizational programs in a large, federated, global organization.
• Proven track record establishing accountability across teams with defined owners and measurable outcomes.
• Experience designing and operating a measurement framework end to end with data sources and artefacts behind a metric.

Responsibilities

• Own governance and controls for citizen development across the firm, turning proposed measures into accountable, reportable metrics.
• Establish governance and controls for networked capabilities, balancing safety with delivery speed.
• Coordinate with major firm groups (Client Service Enablement, Platform McKinsey, risk and control teams) to deliver the citizen development agenda.

Skills

Cyber program management

Technology governance

Cross-organizational programs

Measurement framework

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Ambiguity management

Technical fluency

Job description

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference. When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You'll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You will operate as the governance and control counterpart to the firm’s overall citizen development agenda, effecting change primarily through collaboration.

You will be part of the Digital Trust Office. You will have two key remits: you will own governance and control for how colleagues across the firm build using AI tooling; and, you will work with networked capabilities group to help align to the same governance and controls.

On the first remit, you will take the firm’s citizen development governance framework from a set of proposed measures to a working system of accountability and then supporting and enabling the teams to deliver against the firms’ agenda. Three areas are addressed are: can colleagues build easily, are we safe while they build and share, is the spend justified?

Based on these, you will create target metrics and sub-metrics across the entire citizen development journey, from awareness through build and deployment to handover and maintenance. You will not own those measures yourself but will make sure each one has an owner who is accountable, who reports against it, and who understands how their part connects to creating value for the firm.

On the second remit, you will establish governance and controls for networked capabilities. Because many of the deliverables are client-facing, this requires a thoughtful, balanced approach: controls must support safe, accountable delivery without slowing client work unnecessarily, while also ensuring the firm is not exposed to unnecessary risk such as in the pursuit of delivery speed.

You and your team will establish the cadence, tracking, reporting, and day-to-day interface with delivery groups, while you personally maintain senior relationships. This will help coordinate a broad coalition of key firm groups such as Client Service Enablement, Platform McKinsey, development and deployment teams, device management teams, Risk and Control teams, to deliver against the firm’s Citizen Development agenda.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Cyber program or initiative management, technology governance, technology risk, or a related discipline, including time spent running a cross-organizational programs in a large, federated, global organization
• Demonstrated record of establishing accountability across teams that do not report to you - agreeing owners, agreeing measures, and getting those owners to report against them willingly rather than under instruction
• Experience designing and operating a measurement framework end to end, including the registers, definitions, data sources and evidence artefacts that sit behind a published metric, and the judgement to say plainly when a number cannot yet be trusted
• Technical fluency to confidently interact with platform, tooling and engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management at senior levels, with the credibility to be the direct counterpart to the leaders who set direction for citizen development across the firm
• Experience leading a small team, including managing a technical lead and a programme office
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information in a new and changing area, and able to scope tightly, sequence sensibly, and be explicit about what is deliberately out of scope