Remote Senior Cybersecurity Program Manager

Humana, Inc.; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 104,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen the organization\'s security posture and enable business objectives. You will translate strategy into execution, align stakeholders, and drive secure, on-time delivery across multiple cybersecurity domains.

Travel may be required. The role requires 5–8+ years of cross-functional project leadership, deep cybersecurity domain knowledge, and strong communication with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, cybersecurity, business, engineering, or related field.
• 5–8+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects and programs in technology, cybersecurity, risk management, or related disciplines.
• Experience managing initiatives with multiple teams, stakeholders, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience leading complex technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or security initiatives in an enterprise environment.
• Experience delivering initiatives in domains such as Identity Security, Security Operations, Cloud Security, Network Security, Governance, Product/ Application Security, or Security Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines: planning, risk management, dependency management, stakeholder engagement, governance, reporting.
• Experience developing executive-level communications, status reporting, and decision-support materials.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment in matrixed organizations.
• Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, vendor engagements, or investment-funded initiatives.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate independently in highly complex and ambiguous environments.
• Fluency in ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) for project financial management, forecasting, resource allocation, and time tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and transition.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, assumptions, decisions, and action items.
• Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, technology organizations, business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.
• Drive execution in areas such as Identity & Access Management, Security Operations, Threat Detection & Response, Cloud Security, and more.
• Facilitate planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, executive updates, governance forums, and steering meetings.
• Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and schedule impacts; develop mitigation plans.
• Maintain project reporting with visibility into progress, risks, decisions, milestones, and outcomes.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused communications for leaders.
• Align project execution with strategic objectives and roadmaps across the organization.
• Manage project scope, goals, and timeline with approved objectives.
• Oversee project financials with portfolio management, including budgets, forecasts, and time tracking.
• Drive accountability and resolve blockers; support vendor engagements and procurement as needed.
• Ensure delivery artifacts and governance requirements are maintained throughout the lifecycle.
• Promote consistent delivery practices while adapting to Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid models.
• Lead project teams and contractors, mentoring junior PMs.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/cybersecurity/engineering

Tools

ServiceNow PPM

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jira Align

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Project Manager to deliver strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen the organization\'s security posture and enable business objectives. You will translate strategy into execution, align stakeholders, and drive secure, on-time delivery across multiple cybersecurity domains.

Travel may be required. The role requires 5–8+ years of cross-functional project leadership, deep cybersecurity domain knowledge, and strong communication with