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Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Cyber Project Manager within our Security Services practice, you will lead the end‑to‑end delivery of complex cyber programmes across public and private sector environments.

You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations while coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver secure‑by‑design solutions and measurable business outcomes. Operating across cyber transformation, governance uplift, infrastructure security, identity programmes, and security operations projects, you will act as the central point of control - bridging technical delivery with business priorities.

This is a hands‑on delivery role requiring strong structure, excellent communication, and the ability to navigate fast‑paced, regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead full lifecycle delivery of cyber security projects, ensuring scope, quality, schedule, and cost targets are achieved.
• Establish and run project governance, including RAID management, dependency tracking, change control, financial reporting, and stage-gate reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams—security consultants, engineers, architects, PMO, suppliers, and client stakeholders—to deliver aligned outcomes.
• Drive secure-by-design delivery, ensuring security requirements are captured, validated, and embedded into programme and platform decisions.
• Manage risks, issues, and decisions, maintaining clear logs, proactive mitigation, and transparent escalation pathways.
• Collaborate with technical leads across IAM, Infrastructure, SIOC, OT, DevSecOps, and GRC to ensure deliverables are technically accurate and cohesive.
• Prepare and deliver project documentation, including project initiation documentation, plans, status reporting, commercial updates, and post‑implementation reviews.
• Engage senior stakeholders, providing structured, business‑aligned communication around delivery progress, risk posture, and operational readiness.
• Manage third‑party suppliers, subcontractors, and MSSPs, ensuring commercial performance and contractual alignment.
• Support financial forecasting and budget management, ensuring accurate cost tracking, billing, and change management.
• Ensure compliance with cyber and regulatory standards relevant to the project (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIS/NIS2, CAF, CE+).
• Contribute to continuous improvement, feeding back lessons learned, process enhancements, and best practices across FutureNow delivery teams.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience delivering complex cyber or technology projects in fast‑paced, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of cyber security domains, such as IAM, infrastructure security, cloud security, SOC/SIEM, or GRC (deep technical expertise not required).
• Demonstrable experience managing RAID, change control, planning, reporting, dependencies, and budgets.
• Hands‑on project leadership, not just oversight—demonstrated ability to drive momentum, unblock delivery, and ensure outcomes land.
• Ability to translate technical detail into business language, enabling effective communication with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience in regulated industries (public sector, defence, finance, utilities, or CNI) is highly beneficial.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including steering group facilitation and senior leadership engagement.
• Familiarity with secure‑by‑design concepts, governance uplift, controls alignment, incident readiness, or related cyber initiatives.
• Experience managing vendors or MSSPs, including contract adherence, work‑package delivery, and performance tracking.
• Strong documentation and reporting capability, producing clear and structured plans, summaries, and business cases.

This role requires eligibility for UK Government security clearance. Candidates who already hold clearance (SC or DV) are encouraged to apply, but we will fully consider applicants who meet the eligibility criteria and can obtain clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Formal qualifications such as PRINCE2, APM PMQ/PPQ, MSP, Scrum Master, or equivalent project delivery certifications.
• Experience delivering cyber programmes in public‑sector, defence, or critical national infrastructure settings.
• Understanding of NCSC CAF, NIST CSF, NIS/NIS2, or other sector‑specific security frameworks.
• Experience delivering across multiple FutureNow domains (e.g., IAM, SIOC, Infrastructure, OT, GRC, DevSecOps).
• Demonstrated ability to run multi‑vendor transformation programmes, including contract negotiation or oversight.
• Experience managing cloud transformation projects, especially those requiring coordinated change across identity, network, and security tooling.
• Exposure to security operations uplift, SOC transitions, or SIEM implementations.
• Strong capability in financial management, including forecasting, reporting, burn‑down and utilisation tracking.
• Experience in shaping business cases, TOMs, or capability‑building roadmaps.