Cyber Security Project Manager (Remote)

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Looking for a self-motivated seasoned Senior Information Security project manager with experience in managing multiple simultaneous global projects, with a strong understanding in Cyber Security and Technology projects. This includes defining the scope of the projects, creating and managing the project plan, identifying key stakeholders, producing proper documentation and ensuring all work is compliant with the relevant standards and projects are completed within the deadline. He/she will demonstrate strong leadership and people management skills in forming teams from local and remote sources, both within the region and in the wider global group and ensuring close communication and teamwork to contribute to project success.

Key Responsibilities

• Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information on project phases, task, duration, resources, and costs.
• Participates in developing plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and resources assignments for projects that are subject to management review and approval.
• Act as liaison among internal and external stakeholders, business unit functional areas and project development teams to ensure effective project coordination among participating groups. Facilitates communication among project participants to expedite project processes to resolve issues and problems. Schedule and facilitate meetings on project status and issue resolution.
• Determines specific project deliverables, defines the process for the review and approval of deliverables, and specifies quality criteria for deliverables assessment.
• Defines project scope subject to management approval, establishes the process for altering the scope, and responds to requests for changes to the scope.
• Builds time estimates, develops project schedule, and addresses scheduling problems as they arise.
• Develops, maintains, publishes and distributes comprehensive project plans.
• Identifies, mitigates and recommends alternatives to handling risks and issues that threaten the successful completion of the project within deadline.
• Monitors and reports project progress to objectives in timeframes, scope, quality, costs and risks. Receives information on project status, changes and issues. Identifies potential sources for solutions, and contacts appropriate parties to initiate action.
• Takes an outward focused stance to delivery, removing roadblocks that could distract the team.
• Prepare project status reports for upper management.
• Collaborate with key project members to document and obtain buy-in and approvals items such as requirements, scope to meet the requirements, milestones, project health changes, issue and risks.
• Manage project security assessment to ensure completeness and approval before project Go-Live date.
• Identity, mitigate and recommend alternatives for handling risks and issues that threaten the successful completion of the project within the deadline.
• Develop and maintain project risk management plans. Coordinate project risk identification, quantification, response development and control.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• 8 + years of project management experience
• 3 + years’ experience in Cyber /Information security project management
• Strong knowledge of project management methodology and tools including software.
• Strong knowledge of Cyber Security, Information Technology, Risk and compliance.
• Good knowledge of business unit products and operations.
• Strong leadership skills.
• English Advanced
• Proficient in MS project, Excel, Visio, Jira etc.
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with information security/Technology/Infrastructure projects.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and Certified Scrum Master