Cyber Security Engagement Manager/CISO

Job Title: Cyber Security Engagement Manager - FS Industry
Location: Manchester - 3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to £640 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 16/02/2026
Job Type: Contract until end of July

Company Introduction
The Engagement Director/Manager is accountable for overall leadership, governance, and successful delivery of the project. Acting as senior accountable owner, the role ensures alignment between program leadership, CIO application teams, and Business Unit CISO organisations, while protecting programme credibility and driving measurable cyber-risk reduction outcomes.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Senior client relationship ownership and executive-level stakeholder management across CIO, CISO and program leadership communities.
• End-to-end accountability for delivery governance, prioritisation, and adherence to program scope, quality standards, and timelines.
• Oversight of all services including communications management, reporting and metrics, documentation, and artefact governance.
• Proactive management of delivery risks, issues, and escalations, ensuring timely resolution and transparent decision-making.
• Leadership of delivery team, ensuring consistent ways of working and high professional standards.
• Contribution to senior governance forums, executive reporting cycles, and client steering meetings.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Extensive experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder technology or cyber programmes/Programme office functions within large enterprises.
• Proven capability operating at CIO, CISO and executive committee level.
• Strong commercial, contractual, and governance management expertise.
• Deep understanding of regulated financial services or similarly controlled environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a high standard of written and spoken English.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• PRINCE2® Practitioner or PMP®
• ITIL® 4 Managing Professional (desirable)

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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