Strategic Cyber Advisory Director, NCC Group
TMT
Leading cyber security & managed services
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Leading cyber security & managed services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help keep customers safe and secure.
Role
Who you are
- You will bring a strong understanding of cyber risk, regulatory scrutiny, AI adoption, identity modernisation, third-party exposure, operational resilience and assurance requirements
- Significant senior-level experience across cybersecurity, cyber advisory, consulting, cyber services, technology, risk, compliance, security leadership or complex enterprise sales
- A strong track record of originating, shaping or closing strategic opportunities, ideally including large or transformational deals with multiple stakeholders and decision-makers
- Strong understanding of cyber risk, regulatory expectations, audit cycles, remediation programmes, operational resilience, third-party risk, fraud exposure, data protection, AI risk and board-level reporting
- Ability to engage credibly with senior business, technology, risk and security stakeholders, translating complex technical capability into clear commercial, regulatory and operational outcomes
- A strong senior customer network and the ability to convert trusted relationships into qualified pipeline, executive introductions, revenue growth and new-logo opportunities
- Knowledge of cybersecurity services and propositions, including technical assurance, governance and compliance, identity, cloud security, incident readiness, red teaming, continuous testing, managed detection and response, AI security and third-party risk
- Strong commercial acumen, an entrepreneurial mindset, a collaborative, pragmatic and proactive style, with the ability to influence across Sales, Delivery, Marketing, Product, Solution Architecture, Partners and senior leadership
What the job involves
- As Strategic Advisory Director, you will play a senior, client-facing role in originating, shaping and winning high-value cyber opportunities for NCC Group. Working with senior client stakeholders and prospects, you will translate NCC Group’s technical depth, global cyber expertise and market insight into compelling propositions that support strategic growth, strengthen executive engagement and position NCC Group as a long-term cyber resilience partner
- This role combines strategic cyber advisory credibility with complex pursuit and commercial leadership. You will partner across sales, delivery, marketing, solution engineering, legal, finance, propositions, partnerships and senior leadership to develop account strategies, shape transformational deals, qualify opportunities and lead cross-functional teams through high-value pursuits
- This role will sit within the Global Growth Team, aligned to our Technology, Media and Telecommunications Vertical, we therefore require someone with extensive Technology, Media and Telecommunications knowledge and experience within the Cyber Space
- Originate, shape and execute large, strategic cyber opportunities that support NCC Group’s growth ambitions, improve win rate and increase pull-through across multiple capabilities
- Build trusted senior relationships with client stakeholders, including CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CROs, audit, risk, compliance, legal, privacy and board-level audiences
- Take a consulting-led approach to identify long-term, high-value opportunities by connecting client business priorities, regulatory pressures and cyber risk to NCC Group’s propositions and capabilities
- Lead cross-functional pursuit teams, bringing together expertise from across NCC Group and its partner ecosystem to shape commercially robust and client-relevant solutions
- Apply disciplined opportunity qualification and governance, prioritising investment in deals with the strongest strategic fit and propensity to win
- Advise clients across priority areas including technical assurance, cyber governance, regulatory readiness, digital identity, cloud security, application and product security, third-party risk, operational resilience, AI governance, incident readiness, continuous assurance and proactive security
Application process
- If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed
- 1. Applied
- 2. Review
- 3. Offer
- 4. Hired
Salary benchmarks
Our take
NCC Group is a global cyber and software resilience businesses that assesses, develops and manages cyber threats. The company operates across multiple sectors, geographies and technologies but with the universal mission of communicating the best ways to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.
As we become more entrenched in the digital age, businesses are more vulnerable to cyber-related risk, and this is where NCC Group comes in. Its services work to make the Internet safer and to change the way that organisations think about cyber security. It continues to build momentum as our society becomes increasingly connected but more uncertain.
NCC Group's role is only set to grow too. As technology evolves and cyber threats become more sophisticated, businesses and individuals will need trusted partners to navigate the risks. NCC Group's expertise, global reach, and proactive approach puts it in a position to help organisations not only respond to threats, but to stay ahead of them.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Spinningfields, Manchester, UK
Leadership
Mike Maddison
(Group CEO)Former head of EY’s cyber security, privacy, and trusted technology practice for EMEA. Previously led PwC’s Risk Services practice across the Middle East and before that was head of Deloitte’s cyber security consultancy in EMEA.
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