Engagement Manager, Cyber Risk Advisory (UK) in Basingstoke

About the Role

There’s a specific kind of person this role is built for. You like being the one the client calls when things are tense. You’re good at holding a pod together and making sure the work lands. You can spot a commercial risk three weeks before it hits the P&L. And you’re ready to be the face of Cycore for a portfolio of clients.

As an Engagement Manager at Cycore, you’ll own your book of clients end-to-end, manage a pod of Compliance Engineers, and pull in our Principal Advisors when strategic or regulatory questions demand it. This is a senior destination with significant scope expansion inside the role — and the step before Partner when firm scale makes that right.

What You’ll Do

• Own 6–15 client relationships end-to-end as the primary point of contact below the CISO/Partner level (scope grows with experience).
• Manage 1–3 Compliance Engineers across one or two pods — priorities, growth, QA, career conversations.
• Drive the roadmap to certification or recertification across your book.
• Protect scope and margin; flag expansion opportunities; surface risk early.
• Pull in Principal Advisors for strategic or contentious questions — you don’t have to be the deepest expert on everything, but you need to know when to ask.
• Own the commercial health of your accounts — renewal, expansion, reference-ability.
• At senior tenure: own a firm-level initiative, contribute to hiring and promotion calibration, and mentor other Engagement Managers.

What We’re Looking For

• 6–12 years of compliance, GRC consulting, or client-facing cybersecurity work.
• Demonstrated client relationship ownership — you’ve been the face of a program, not just a contributor to one.
• Management experience or an explicit, credible aspiration to manage — you’re energized by developing people, not just delivering work.
• Commercial judgment — you know when a conversation needs to become a change order.
• Calm under pressure. Auditors, contentious clients, and last-minute scope changes don’t rattle you.
• Fluency across multiple frameworks (SOC 2 plus at least one of ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS).

Bonus Points For

• Prior experience as a GRC engagement manager, senior consultant, or fractional CISO/CCO.
• Experience selling or expanding accounts (won’t be your primary role, but you’ll contribute).
• Senior certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CIPM.

Why Cycore

• You’ll run your book with more leverage than at a traditional firm — AI does the grind.
• Real pod management, not matrix chaos.
• Clear, published path to Partner based on firm need and demonstrated scope.
• Influence on firm strategy, not just execution.
• Senior destination with meaningful scope expansion inside the role — you don’t need a promotion to grow here.

Cycore is a leading AI-powered cybersecurity services firm based in Miami, Florida servicing leading SaaS, fintech, and healthtech companies navigating complex compliance landscapes. Cycore is led by an executive team of cybersecurity veterans with decades of combined experience across global Fortune 500 organizations.