Cybersecurity Program Manager

Introduction
At IBM our Program Managers are the face of delivery and a trusted client advocate. They excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance scope cost and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports and as a Project/ Program Manager you will drive the charge with project direction metric definition and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM leads several significant client transformation programs in line with client’s cyber security strategy leads with a point of view on best practices and role models behaviors for seeking input team alignment prioritisation and manages stakeholder expectations throughout the end-to-end delivery.

Responsibilities Include

• Manage global cross-functional and cross-organisation projects and track to completion; regularly communicate status and technical progress across business units and organisations and upline to executives and senior business and technical leaders.
• Manage competing business and technical priorities in an environment that can bring daily changes in priorities.
• Drive and track technical issues to closure leveraging a larger technical team and find solutions for issues as they arise
• Research technical initiatives with a primary emphasis on architecture and security and compliance initiatives
• Produce documentation related to program management schedule interdependencies between multiple projects and cadence reports
• Work closely with the Partners and Associate Partners on identifying opportunities and driving new sales in the accounts.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of experience managing security projects; including development of project tasks as necessary with input from the Service Technical teams Architecture teams Compliance teams and a demonstrated ability to manage multiple offerings and environments across a wide variety of Services with differing requirements.
• Experience allocating resources appropriately to meet client/program needs and minimize resource contention.
• Experience creating / Managing an integrated master project plan across multiple offerings.
• PM professional skills to enhance the level of service and quality of stakeholder deliverables.
• Exceptional communication skills coordinating stakeholder meetings and managing a diverse team and set of stakeholders with operations onshore and offshore.
• Clearance desired not mandatory
• Experience in utilities sector with understanding of SOCI act highly desired

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Cybersecurity Certifications such as CISSP CISM preferred