Cybersecurity Program Manager

📢 Our mission? Ivy Partners is a Swiss consulting firm contributing to the evolution of companies in their strategic, technological, and organizational challenges.

Our goal today is to offer our team members a career that positively contributes to their development and well-being by enhancing their skills and providing them with real career progression opportunities.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Cybersecurity Program Manager at Ivy Partners, your missions will be:

- Monitor the main security control implementation projects (led by cybersecurity or other organizational areas), keeping track of their status, including project planning, execution status, risks, and issues to be addressed;

- Report project status to stakeholders;

- Address and follow up on the activities to mitigate risks identified within the scope of cybersecurity activities across other areas;

- Identify and deal with cybersecurity risks inherent in ongoing projects, specifically to ensure that cybersecurity controls are implemented;

- Manage the Cybersecurity Steering and other internal communication channels, including agenda proposals, communication strategy definition, and coordination with different stakeholders in preparation for support documents for the sessions;

- Coordinate other cybersecurity teams in managing the budget of the area, including preparation of the annual budget proposal and subsequent monitoring of its execution, anticipating needs according to plan;

- Support the preparation of presentations on annual activity plans for the cybersecurity area;

- Identify opportunities for improvement in cybersecurity processes and procedures.

🏅 About you!

- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience that blends technical capabilities with management insights;

- Relevant experience in program management or complex project management preferably in the cybersecurity area;

- Experience in preparing management reports on risks and activities (steering committee);

- Knowledge of project management methodologies (PMBOK, SCRUM, AGILE, etc.);

- Proficient in the management and operation of project management tools (e.g., JIRA);

- Knowledge in information security, cybersecurity standards and norms (ISO, NIST, etc.);

- Leadership and team management skills;

- Conflict management and coordination of multidisciplinary workgroups;

- Planning and organizing skills;

- Risk identification and management abilities in cybersecurity;

- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;

- Proactivity and initiative;

- Resilience, adaptability to changes, and management of ambiguous situations;

- Critical and result-oriented thinking;

- Decision-making and problem-solving skills;

- Leadership and teamwork skills;

- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal abilities;

- Strong relational skills and positive networking;

- Proficiency in MS Office tools (especially MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).

🤝 IVY is also:

Empathy | Concerned for our employees, we guarantee a favorable environment where everyone is valued and offered training and career progression opportunities in Switzerland or internationally.

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Innovation | We ensure effective digital transformation through technological innovation coupled with creativity.

Responsibility | The collective is at the heart of everything we undertake, and we take this responsibility seriously by striving to have a positive impact.