Senior Program Portfolio Lead (Cyber)

Axon Associates; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced professional to lead cybersecurity strategy and execution. You will maintain the cybersecurity implementation roadmap, manage stakeholder relationships, and provide leadership in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of IT program experience and a strong background in cybersecurity transformations. Competitive compensation is offered for this full-time position.

Qualifications

• 15-20 years of IT technology program experience in large financial institutions.
• 5+ years of delivering cybersecurity transformations.
• Consulting experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the regional cybersecurity strategic implementation roadmap.
• Ensure key stakeholders are aware of the cybersecurity strategy.
• Manage and maintain RAID and dependency log reviews.
• Drive strong leadership and challenge plans.
• Develop high-quality, executive-facing decks and MI material.

Skills

Execution and delivery oriented

Strong team leadership and people skills

Ability to build financial models

Performance-driven negotiator

Strong impact and influence

Self-starter

Conflict resolution skills

Job description

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 solve 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 Requirements

1. 15‑20 years of IT technology program experience within large financial institutions or large, heavily regulated corporates.
2. 5+ years of delivering cyber security transformations.

Desired

• Consulting experience.

Capabilities

• Execution and delivery oriented.
• Strong team leadership and people skills.
• Ability 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.