It Security Senior Project Manager (Remote)

Role Description

Who We Are

Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.

UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.

With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.

Visit us at UST.com.

Who you are

UST is 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 is required.
• Advance English is required.
• 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 oral and written communication skills.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• 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

What We Believe

We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.

Humility

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

An Equal Opportunity Workplace, Free of Discrimination and Harassment

At UST, we strive to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We are an equal opportunity employer and employment decisions are based on merit and business needs. Our Human Rights Policy further illustrates our stand on this. We are committed to following fair employment practices that provide equal opportunities to all employees. We do not discriminate or allow harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected status. At UST, we value diversity and believe that a diverse workplace builds a competitive advantage.