IT Cyber Senior Project Manager in Nottingham

Come and join the Littlefish team!

Work location: Nottingham/ Sheffield Hybrid

Salary: Up to 70,000

Must be eligible for SC Clearance (UK resident for the last 5 years)

Here at Littlefish, we look for people who can make a real difference and become a giant slayer. As the world around us continues to change, we look for people who grab that change with optimism and excitement. These are the passionate and high performing people who enjoy and thrive on thinking outside the box.

The role and what you’ll be getting up to on a day to day basis:

• Lead the delivery of complex cyber security projects and programmes from initiation through to completion.
• Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies and governance activities.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Facilitate programme boards, steering committees and project governance meetings.
• Work closely with cyber security consultants, architects and technical delivery teams to understand and challenge delivery plans, dependencies, risks and readiness for implementation.
• Manage project financials, forecasting, resource planning and utilisation.
• Ensure projects align with cyber security standards, compliance requirements and customer objectives.
• Produce executive-level reporting, dashboards and programme updates.
• Drive continuous improvement, lessons learned and delivery best practices across the cyber portfolio.
• Support the successful adoption and transition of cyber security solutions into operational service.

We need a candidate with:

• Proven experience leading complex cyber security projects and programmes, with delivery experience in areas such as security monitoring/SIEM, identity and access management, or security platform implementation and migration.
• Sufficient technical understanding to translate cyber security requirements into delivery activities, challenge assumptions and assess delivery readiness. This is a project delivery role, not a hands-on security engineering or solution design role.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing skills.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasting and financial performance.
• Strong governance, risk and compliance management capabilities.
• Experience working with Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• A proactive, customer-focused and delivery-driven mindset.

It Would Be Great If You Also Have:

• Experience delivering cyber transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NCSC CAF, GDPR and other security frameworks.
• Experience with Microsoft Security technologies, including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
• Knowledge of cloud security platforms, including Microsoft Azure.
• PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience within Managed Services, Professional Services or Consulting environments.

What can we offer you?

• Referral bonus scheme of 1000 when you successfully refer a friend.
• Access to our LinkedIn Learning platform, with over 16000 expert-led online tutorials to enhance and achieve your personal and professional goals.
• Healthcare cash plan. This will give you access to online GP appointments, 24/7 access to qualified counsellors and cash back against a range of general healthcare.
• Casual dress policy.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Company social events.
• 25 days annual leave plus public / bank holidays.
• Purchase of annual leave scheme.

Life at Littlefish: Our company values shape who we are as a business, what we stand for and how we work. Hiring people with our values at heart, is very important as we see Littlefish grow.

• I am High Performing - I like to raise the bar, we look at creating opportunities to increase quality and improve efficiency, we strive for service excellence.
• I am Passionate - We build team success and celebrate them together, I am enthusiastic and energetic, I care about the people I work with and we support one another.
• I Have a Can-Do Attitude - I am not afraid to step outside my comfort zone, we are not afraid to challenge status quo, we get stuff done!
• I am Cyber Conscious - I am vigilant, responsible, and proactive in protecting our people, customers and organisation from Cyber threats.

So, if you feel like you can make a tangible difference, apply today, and join us on this journey.

Here at Littlefish we aim to be somewhere everyone can be themselves. We are committed to encouraging a diverse and inclusive community where everyone irrespective of who they are, or their background, can feel equal and supported.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Please get in touch if you are concerned about any difficulties you may face during your recruitment process, so we adjust accordingly.

Part of our application process includes a set of ED&I (Equality, diversity and inclusion) questions. Please note, each question has a ‘prefer not to say’ option.