Senior Manager – Cyber Incident & Response – Consulting

Overview

In this senior role you lead cyber incident response advisory and live incident management engagements for major organisations, shaping resilience and incident readiness. You work with C-suite and senior stakeholders to implement response strategies, playbooks, and simulations, while driving growth of the Cyber Incident Response offering. The role blends consultancy leadership with hands-on incident management during high-impact events, including business development and client relationship building. You will mentor teams and expand capability across the practice, contributing to the firm’s market profile.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Cyber Incident Response advisory and incident management engagements
• Advise on incident preparedness, crisis management and operational resilience
• Develop incident response plans, playbooks, readiness assessments and post-breach reviews
• Design and facilitate cyber simulations, wargames and exercises for senior stakeholders
• Contribute to live incident responses alongside technical specialists
• Act as trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders and build lasting relationships
• Lead business development activity, including go-to-market initiatives and pitches
• Identify opportunities to expand client relationships across proactive and reactive cyber services
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and manage project, programme, financial and people aspects
• Contribute to development of new CIR propositions and enhancement of services
• Coach, mentor and develop colleagues and build wider capability
• Contribute to external profile and market reputation of the practice

Key requirements

• Significant experience in Cyber Incident Response, incident management or related operational cyber role
• Strong understanding of CIR methodologies, attacker techniques and key security concepts
• Proven ability to develop incident response plans, procedures and scenario-specific playbooks
• Experience designing and facilitating cyber incident exercises for varied seniority
• Track record of leading large, complex client engagements with project, financial and people management
• Strong experience in business development, propositions, pitches and senior client relationships
• Commercial awareness of how cyber incidents affect business processes and resilience
• Experience influencing senior executives and C-suite stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication translating complex cyber issues to diverse audiences
• Strong leadership, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 and NIST is advantageous
• Professional qualifications such as CISSP, ITIL, CompTIA Security+, SANS or equivalent beneficial
• Government Security Clearance advantageous; willing to undergo vetting
• Willingness to participate in on-call rota and travel within UK and EMEA

• Executive stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking
• Communication excellence
• Incident response methodologies
• Playbook design
• Wargaming and simulations

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