Programme Manager: Cyber

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Overview This role is for a Programme Manager specializing in Cyber at Optimal Growth Technologies. The primary purpose is to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of the cyber security programme, ensuring its alignment with strategic objectives, business priorities, and the established governance framework. The position involves comprehensive oversight of end-to-end programme management activities, including consistent execution, risk and resource management, stakeholder engagement, progress monitoring, performance reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and providing leadership to foster a resilient, future-ready cyber security environment. What you will do * Lead and coordinate the delivery of the Cyber Improvement Programme, ensuring successful execution of cyber security strategic initiatives and alignment to business priorities, strategic targets and key risk indicators. * Establish and maintain programme governance, delivery standards, reporting and assurance processes across all cyber security strategic initiatives. * Support cyber security planning and strategy execution initiatives and events. * Manage the consolidated cyber roadmap, dependencies, milestones, risks and interrelationships across all workstreams, strategic initiatives, teams and stakeholders. * Provide programme and project management support to strategic initiatives, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, schedule, budget and outcomes. * Act as the central point of coordination for programme communications, executive reporting, governance forums and escalations. * Engage effectively with senior stakeholders and ensure that programme status, risks, dependencies and key decisions are clearly communicated. * Maintain oversight of programme risks, issues and programme-related actions, ensuring timely mitigation and resolution. * Ensure that appropriate governance, assurance and compliance requirements are incorporated into programme delivery. * Track and report on programme outcomes, benefits, KPIs and value delivery, ensuring strategic investments achieve their intended objectives. * Where required, support programme budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and investment tracking across strategic initiatives. * Drive the adoption of programme management best practices, standardised tooling, reporting automation and lessons learned. * Identify opportunities to improve programme delivery, governance and reporting processes. * Foster collaboration across Cyber Security, Technology, Digital & IT, Networks and other relevant business and technical teams to enable effective strategy execution. * Support the coordination of key priorities where there is an urgent need to coordinate efforts across multiple teams, such as incident response, operational escalations or other critical cyber security initiatives. These activities should be managed as structured mini-projects where appropriate. Requirements (from the original advert) * Minimum 8 years' experience leading complex programmes and strategic initiatives, with a proven track record of delivering outcomes across large, multi-stakeholder and cross-functional environments. * Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into executable roadmaps, manage interdependencies and risks, and drive delivery against agreed targets, benefits and business outcomes. * Strong experience establishing programme governance, managing risks and dependencies, tracking KPIs, benefits realisation and reporting to executive stakeholders. * Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, coordinate and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, both technical and business, and drive alignment without direct authority. * Good understanding of cyber security governance, risk management and technology environments within a large enterprise environment. * Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities and deadlines. * 3-year degree or relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Cyber Security or a related discipline. * A Project Management qualification such as PMP or PRINCE2 would be advantageous. * A Business degree with Project Management experience would also be advantageous. Who should apply The ideal candidate is an experienced Programme Manager with a minimum of 8 years leading complex strategic initiatives within large, multi-stakeholder, and cross-functional environments. They must demonstrate a proven track record in delivering cyber security programmes, capable of translating strategic objectives into executable roadmaps, managing interdependencies and risks, and driving delivery against agreed targets and business outcomes. Essential skills include establishing programme governance, managing risks and dependencies, tracking KPIs and benefits realisation, and effective reporting to executive stakeholders. The role requires excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, coordinate diverse stakeholders, and drive alignment without direct authority. Exceptional organisational skills are necessary to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, and deadlines, along with a good understanding of cyber security governance, risk management, and technology environments within a large enterprise. Deadline Not specified Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/programme-manager-cyber-optimal-growth-technologies-1 Source: myjobmag

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