Manager – Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk & Architecture

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Manager to lead Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk & Architecture in the Netherlands. You will shape security narratives for executives, translate threats into business outcomes, and guide large-scale transformations. English and Dutch fluency, executive presence, and a track record in advisory are essential.

You’ll work at senior client levels, oversee complex engagements, and drive offerings while developing a high-performing team in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in security, technology, or related field.
• 6–10 years of experience in security strategy, advisory, or consulting.
• Proven track record leading consulting engagements and delivery teams.
• Broad domain expertise across risk management, governance, and transformations.

Responsibilities

• Set the security agenda for clients with strategies and roadmaps tied to business goals.
• Own engagements end-to-end, including delivery quality and stakeholder management.
• Build and guide the team, ensuring growth and accountability.
• Drive domain growth by shaping proposals and offerings.

Skills

Executive presence

Stakeholder management

Security strategy

Dutch fluency

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Manager – Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk & Architecture

Lead security transformation at scale

As a Manager in our Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk & Architecture team, you work on the challenges that actually keep CISOs and executive leadership up at night. You are a trusted advisor shaping how organizations think about, structure, and invest in cybersecurity. A big part of that is building the narratives that make security land at the top: translating emerging threats, regulatory shifts, and architectural complexity into stories that drive executive decisions and change.

You bring together deep security expertise, executive presence, and commercial sharpness to shape and deliver complex engagements. Whether it’s making the case for a security transformation, positioning a new operating model, or helping a board understand what a threat landscape actually means for their business, you shape the thinking before the strategy gets written.

Your role and impact

In this position, you are accountable for both client outcomes and team development:

• Set the security agenda for clients
  You define security strategies and implementation roadmaps that connect to what the business cares about, not just compliance checkboxes. You work at senior client levels and you’re comfortable there.
• Own engagements end-to-end
  Delivery quality, stakeholder dynamics, risk calls, decisions under pressure: that’s yours. You don’t wait to be told what the problem is; you help the client see it.
• Build the team behind the work
  You guide the people you work with, giving them room to grow into experts while setting the example on quality and accountability.
• Drive domain growth
  You spot opportunities, shape proposals, and help build and grow our offerings.

Your expertise

You bring credibility, maturity, and depth of experience:

• A master’s degree , preferably in security, technology, or other relevant fields.
• 6–10 years of experience in security strategy, advisory, or consulting, ideally within a strategy consulting environment or large, complex organizations.
• A track record of leading consulting engagements and delivery teams.
• Broad expertise across one or more domains, such as:
  • Integrated Risk Management
  • Supply Chain & Third‑Party Risk Management
  • Cybersecurity Strategy Development
  • Cybersecurity Governance & Operating Models
  • Business-aligned Cybersecurity Transformations
• The ability to connect security outcomes to business value, fluently and credibly.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills at all levels, including C-suite.
• Fluency in English and Dutch (both written and spoken).

Why join Accenture Security

You’ll be joining a team that takes your development seriously. That means real investment in where you want to go, not just what the project needs from you. Senior people here are accessible, and our culture rewards initiative, and there’s space to build a profile that extends beyond your immediate client work. Whether that’s developing a point of view on an emerging regulation, owning a capability area, or becoming a recognizable voice in the market, that opportunity exists if you want it.

On top of that, you get the reach of One Accenture. Access to cutting-edge technology, advanced analytics, and AI-driven security insights means you’re never solving problems alone. You bring the best available thinking to every engagement, and that raises the quality of what you can deliver and what you can learn.

If you’re looking for a place to grow fast, work on things that matter, and where you can help secure the Netherlands and beyond, you came to the right place.

Our values

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. Our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger, and more equitable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and communities.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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