Senior Manager, Advisory (Cyber Security)

About Us

ISTARI is a strategic cybersecurity advisory company with a bold vision: to curate the defining cybersecurity ecosystem of our time -uniting enterprise, academia, government, and innovators to build collective resilience. At the heart of this mission, ISTARI helps clients achieve lasting organisational cyber resilience by convening and applying world-class talent, expertise, and innovation through a uniquely powerful network - with ISTARI as the central orchestrator.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Manager in ISTARI's Advisory practice, you are at the heart of our client mission, responsible for delivering key components of our most complex cybersecurity engagements. You will be a cornerstone of our project teams, managing timelines, coordinating across multiple stakeholders, and ensuring that all deliverables meet our standards of excellence.

This role is a critical part of our delivery engine, offering a unique opportunity to work on large-scale advisory projects while honing your expertise in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will be instrumental in managing programmes, resolving delivery issues, and ensuring our clients are delighted with the outcomes.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Delivery & Execution: Delivers key components of advisory engagements, manages project workstreams, and ensures deliverables meet client requirements. Manage programmes to define objectives, scope, timelines, and budgets. You will produce status reports and escalate potential delays or budget overruns in advance.
• Pre-Sales Solution Architect: Build Proposals, effort estimation, solution engineering for large complex cyber transformation engagements.
• Business Development: Supports Directors, Principals and Partners in creating content for client workshops, PoV, and other client-facing materials.
• Project Management: Works with the partners to manage the project; tracks project budget vs plan, manages subcontractors, communicates with internal and external stakeholders, and ensures invoices are correct and go out on time.
• Practice Development: Contributes to internal delivery materials and fosters a collaborative team environment.

What You'll Bring (Candidate Profile)

• Experience: ~8-10 years in cybersecurity consulting.
• Expertise: Direct cyber expertise and delivery of cyber projects is essential. You are a resilient, self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and possesses deepening expertise in at least one technical or solution area.
• Industry experience: Extensive cross-industry cybersecurity advisory projects across multiple cyber domains and capability areas.
• Specialised Knowledge: Demonstrable experience in two or more key areas, such as Cybersecurity transformation, Security Architecture and Engineering, Supply chain risk, Cloud Security, OT Security, Cyber Defense and Cybersecurity strategy and risk management.
• Key Skills: You are client-focused, collaborative, and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior stakeholders like the CISO and CIO.

How We Measure Success (KPIs)

• Delivering client engagements and meeting objectives within the agreed-upon timelines, budget, and to the client's satisfaction.
• Effectively managing all programme stakeholders, including ISTARI, the client, and portfolio companies.
• Ensuring the quality assurance and production of high-calibre, client-ready materials such as presentations and reports.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base Salary: A competitive base salary, benchmarked against industry practice in our hub locations.
• Annual Performance-Related Bonus: An on-target annual bonus as a percentage of your base salary.
• Benefits: A comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including medical and dental cover, pension contributions, and life insurance.
• Flexibility: We support a hybrid working model and a willingness to travel for clients is required.

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If you are a builder and ready to be part of a team shaping the future of a growing global practice, we encourage you to apply.