Cybersecurity Advisory Director

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom ISTARI Full time
About ISTARI

ISTARI is a global cybersecurity collective with a presence across EMEA, APAC, and AMER. Established in 2020 by Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore, ISTARI focuses on creating a digitally resilient future for businesses.

The company has a unique model, offering a three-pronged, client-centric approach to building resilient organizations:

  • ADVISOR – ISTARI's global team of seasoned experts build long-lasting client partnerships based on trust and delivery, owning 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.
  • EDUCATOR – The ISTARI Academy delivers digital risk leadership programs to senior executives in partnership with the University of Cambridge, making today's business leaders digitally fluent.
The Role

The purpose of this Director/Senior Manager, Advisory role is to contribute to the delivery of large and complex cybersecurity advisory engagements.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Cybersecurity advisory delivery: Deliver key parts of cybersecurity advisory engagements, coordinating across multiple stakeholders, including ISTARI and project managers from portfolio companies and client teams.
  • Subject matter expertise: Provide cybersecurity subject matter expertise and consulting experience across capabilities, such as cyber security strategy, risk evaluation, and specific domains like supply chain security, cloud security, and enterprise technology risk.
  • Programme management: Manage programs to set objectives, scope, timelines, and budget, producing program status reports and escalating potential delays or budget overruns in advance.
  • Team engagement: Support MDs, Client Partners, and Engagement Leads with consulting services, including preparation of presentations, proposals, solutions, contracts, and other client-related materials, attending client meetings.
Expected Outcomes

Establish trusted relationships with clients and ISTARI portfolio companies, delivering target client impact, delighting clients with first-class delivery of projects, and contributing to growing ISTARI's Advisory practice and advancing its brand and reputation in the market.

Help shape client offerings, contribute towards thought leadership, work collaboratively with portfolio companies, and support their growth, understanding market trends to help the Advisory practice feed insights into the Investment team.

Candidate Profile

Candidates should have:

  • Cybersecurity strategy design and delivery experience.
  • Minimum 8 years' consulting experience.
  • Cyber security consulting expertise and delivery of cyber projects.
  • Experience working within complex teams while 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 prioritization.

This position would suit a Director or Senior Manager grade consultant. ISTARI operates a hybrid working pattern, but due to the nature of client work, travel may be required for this role.

Benefits include performance-related annual bonus, long-term incentive plan, medical insurance, 25 days' holiday, and 10% non-contributory pension.



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