OT Cybersecurity Solutions Manager | alfanar Electric
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Job summary
alfanar Electric, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, seeks an OT Cybersecurity Solutions Manager to lead development, positioning, and delivery of OT cybersecurity systems. The role oversees technical development, pre-sales activities, and solution engineering to ensure competitive and scalable offerings.
The ideal candidate will spearhead vendor evaluation, manage cross-functional teams, and drive technical competency across engineering, pre-sales, and project delivery.
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Software Development or any relevant field.
- 10-15 years work experience.
- Experience in Marketing and Sales Strategies and CRM.
Responsibilities
- Lead OT cybersecurity solutions development and pre-sales.
- Oversee vendor relationships and technology selection.
- Ensure project integration, site surveys, and risk assessments.
Skills
Education
Job description
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Description:
Requisition ID: 25610
City: Project Sales
Group overview:
Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.
alfanar is involved in:
- Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
- Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
- Allied Engineering Services
Our Main Divisions:
- alfanar electric
- alfanar Construction
- alfanar Building Systems
alfanar electric
alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.
alfanar electric operates industries in:
- Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
- Dubai, UAE
- London, UK
alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.
Industrial Complex, Riyadh
The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.
Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities.
The Complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.
Lead the development, positioning, and delivery of Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity systems and solutions by overseeing technical development, pre-sales activities, and solution engineering to ensure technically sound, competitive, and scalable offerings.
- Oversee technical development activities related to OT cybersecurity solutions
- Review and approve proof-of-concepts and technical solution designs
- Ensure development of customized solutions based on project and site requirements
- Guide vendor evaluation and technology selection activities
- Oversee technical inputs for RFPs, proposals, and tender submissions
- Ensure technical compliance and accuracy of proposals and offers
- Support technical workshops, presentations, and customer engagements
- Review solution scope, assumptions, and technical risks during bidding stages
- Oversee site surveys and technical risk assessment activities
- Ensure effective transition of solutions from pre-sales to project execution
- Coordinate with project teams to support system integration activities
- Review and resolve complex technical issues during implementation
- Manage relationships with OT cybersecurity vendors and technology partners
- Approve OT cybersecurity tools, platforms, and solution components
- Ensure vendor solutions align with customer and project requirements
- Lead OT cybersecurity technical, engineering, and pre-sales teams
- Define technical competency requirements and skill development needs
- Promote collaboration across technical development, pre-sales, and engineering functions
- Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
- Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
- Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
- Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
- Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
- Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.
- Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
- Making a Tangible Difference:
- Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.
- Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
- Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
- Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.
- Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
- Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
- Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
- Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.
- Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.
Bachelor Degree in Software Development or Any relevant field
10-15 years
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