Cybersecurity Strategy Lead

15 hours ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ISTARI Full time

About ISTARI

Established in 2020 by Temasek, a prominent investment company based in Singapore, ISTARI is a global cybersecurity collective with a presence across EMEA, APAC and AMER.

Istari's mission is to create a digitally resilient future for businesses. Our unique model focuses on offering a three-pronged, client-centric approach to building resilient organisations:

  • ADVISOR – Our global team of seasoned experts build long-lasting client partnerships based on trust and delivery, owning our clients' problems from strategy to solution.
  • INVESTOR – The Istari Collective comprises 8 cybersecurity product and services companies and 4 VC fund partnerships. With a committed fund size of $2bn, the team continues to make strategic, client-centric investments.
  • EDUCATOR – The Istari Academy delivers digital risk leadership programmes to senior executives in partnership with the University of Cambridge, intending to make today's business leaders digitally fluent.

We leverage the collective power of our cybersecurity portfolio, industry experts and proprietary knowledge to work alongside clients on their journey to becoming digitally resilient.

The Role

This Director/ Senior Manager, Advisory role contributes to the delivery of large and complex cybersecurity advisory engagements.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Cybersecurity advisory delivery: Deliver key parts of cybersecurity advisory engagements; co-ordinate across multiple stakeholders, including Istari and project managers from portfolio companies and client teams, as required.
  • Subject matter expertise: Provide cybersecurity subject matter expertise and consulting experience across capabilities e.g. cyber security strategy, risk evaluation, and more specific domains such as supply chain security, cloud security, enterprise technology risk, OT security and cyber resilience.
  • Programme management: Manage programmes to set objectives, scope, timelines and budget. Produce programme status reports and escalate potential delays or budget overruns in advance.
  • Team engagement: Support MDs, Client Partners and Engagement Leads with the provision of consulting services, including preparation of presentations, proposals, solutions, contracts and other such client related materials, attending client meetings.

Expected Outcomes:

  • Establish trusted relationships with clients and Istari portfolio companies
  • Deliver target client impact; delight the client with first-class delivery of projects
  • Deliver client engagements within set timelines, within budget and to clients' satisfaction
  • Contribute to growing Istari's Advisory practice and help advance Istari's brand and reputation in the market
  • Help shape client offerings and contribute towards thought leadership
  • Work collaboratively with portfolio companies and support their growth
  • Understand market trends to help the Advisory practice feed insights into the Investment team

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Cybersecurity strategy design and delivery
  • Minimum 8 years' consulting experience
  • Cyber security consulting expertise and delivery of cyber projects
  • Experience working within complex teams whilst delivering large and complex client engagements
  • A self-starter who can thrive in an evolving start-up environment
  • A good level of resilience, comfortable working with ambiguity and keen to tackle challenges
  • Experience and expertise in two or more of the following areas of client success:
    • Cyber Crisis readiness (ideally along NIST or similar model stages) and business continuity planning
    • Transforming and third-party risk management and capability
    • Securing critical digital and national infrastructure
    • Architecting the Cloud for resilience and/or securing the journey to the Cloud
    • Cyber risk quantification and using value-at-risk to drive leadership decision-making and prioritisation

Estimated Salary Range: £80,000 - £120,000 per annum, depending on experience.

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