Global Cybersecurity & Compliance Project Manager

Prometric; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Prometric Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead security, risk, governance, and compliance initiatives globally. You will translate security priorities into actionable project plans, coordinate across IT, operations, and audits, and report progress to executives.

The role requires strong PM discipline, knowledge of security controls, and excellent stakeholder communication. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-moving, distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or audit projects.
• Strong PM fundamentals: scope, schedule, dependencies, risk, stakeholder comms, status reporting.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance concepts: IAM, vulnerability management, incident response.
• Familiar with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST or similar control frameworks.
• Translate security topics into business language for non-technical audiences.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, auditors, and leadership.
• Experience creating project plans, meeting agendas, decision logs, dashboards, and exec updates.
• Proficient with MS Office and PM tools (MS Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Wrike, Smartsheet).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; clarity, accountability, follow-through.
• Highly organized with multiple priorities and minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage cybersecurity, risk, compliance and governance projects from initiation to closure.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, status reports.
• Coordinate work across Information Security, IT, infrastructure, development, operations, audit, legal, privacy, vendors and business teams.
• Support initiatives related to security operations, IAM, vulnerability management, incident readiness, client assurance, audit remediation, compliance readiness.
• Track risks, issues, decisions, actions, dependencies; escalate blockers with options.
• Ensure governance, change control, documentation, and evidence retention standards are met.
• Translate security requirements into practical business milestones, outcomes and reporting.
• Maintain clear stakeholder communication on scope, timelines, risks and impact.

Skills

Project management

Cybersecurity knowledge

Governance & risk management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional coordination

Documentation & reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field

PM certification (PMP/PRINCE2/Agile)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

Wrike

Smartsheet

Job description

Prometric Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead security, risk, governance, and compliance initiatives globally. You will translate security priorities into actionable project plans, coordinate across IT, operations, and audits, and report progress to executives.

The role requires strong PM discipline, knowledge of security controls, and excellent stakeholder communication. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-moving, distributed environment.