Cyber Security Project Manager

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale cyber security, infrastructure, or digital transformation programmes.
• Strong programme governance and stakeholder management expertise within complex multi-supplier environments.
• Experience managing security operations, service transitions, operational readiness, and technology migrations.
• Knowledge of cyber security domains including SOC operations, SIEM platforms, identity and access management, security governance, and risk management.
• Excellent planning, reporting, financial management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining control of delivery, quality, and compliance obligations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead programme governance activities including steering committees, working groups, risk management, change control, and executive reporting.
• Manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical delivery activities across multiple workstreams and suppliers.
• Coordinate stakeholders across technical, operational, security, service management, and senior leadership teams.
• Own and maintain RAID processes, ensuring risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies are effectively managed and escalated.
• Drive service transition and operational readiness activities, including knowledge transfer, documentation reviews, access management, cutover planning, and post-transition support.
• Oversee the delivery of security operations enhancements and migration activities involving SIEM, SOC, identity and access management, governance, and security controls.
• Manage contractual and commercial deliverables, including milestone tracking, scope management, financial reporting, and change requests.
• Produce clear programme reporting, providing visibility of delivery status, risks, dependencies, financial performance, and decision requirements.

Technologies:

• Support
• Project Manager
• Security

More:

CPS Group UK are partnering with an organisation to hire an experienced Cyber Security Project Manager to play a key role in the delivery of a major security transformation programme within a complex, highly regulated environment. The role is responsible for coordinating governance, service transition, security operations, and future-state security capability delivery while ensuring alignment between technical, operational, commercial, and contractual objectives. This is a contract role inside IR35 for 3-6 months, starting ASAP, with a remote working arrangement and occasional travel to client sites in the UK. The pay rate is £500 - £550 per day via umbrella.

last updated 38 week of 2026