Exercising Lead, Senior Associate in England

We have a new and exciting role available within our Cyber Security division in London for a Exercising Lead, Senior Associate, Cyber Risk Advisory. S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since ****, we have helped some of the most demanding clients in the world solve some of their toughest information security challenges. We are committed to developing sharp, curious, driven individuals who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success. But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We invest in our people’s wellbeing and learning every day.

The role involves leading our cyber resilience consultancy engagements. You will work closely with our clients to understand their challenges, lead project teams, and deliver innovative solutions across a full spectrum of cyber risk management and governance activities. Our aim is to become trusted advisors to our clients as we help them navigate dynamic and evolving security risks. Our Associates are project managers and people managers, as well as consultants. You will support the development of junior colleagues, drive improvement in products and services, and contribute to Practice strategy.

This role has a strong focus on Cyber Incident Response Exercising. You will take applied incident response expertise and apply it to the design, delivery, and development of S-RM's exercising services, helping our clients build resilience through realistic and impactful simulations.

• Incident Response Simulation Exercise Lead
• Lead the delivery of S-RM's Cyber Incident Response Exercise programme across all market segments, including private equity portfolio clients, insurance clients, and direct corporate clients.
• Design, develop and deliver operational and leadership cyber incident response exercises tailored to client needs.
• Apply hands-on incident response experience to inform exercise realism, scenarios, and learning outcomes.
• Develop S-RM's incident response exercise service offerings, including methodologies, tools, and collateral.
• Support commercial activities in this area, including writing proposals, pitching to clients, and driving growth of S-RM's exercising services.

• Advise clients on cyber incident response strategy, policy, and plan development.
• Review and develop incident response playbooks, ensuring they are practical, tested, and aligned to organisational needs.
• Contribute to digital resilience services, including business continuity and disaster recovery planning and exercising.
• Operate in the space between cyber advisory and hands-on incident response, providing clients with pragmatic and experience-based guidance.

• Lead consultancy engagements across a broad range of information security disciplines, including assessing cyber security controls across people, process, and technology.
• Framework assessments and security improvement planning.
• Cyber regulations, governance, and compliance.

S-RM Consultants are organised and dynamic project managers and team leaders. You will:

• Lead complex projects independently.
• Manage client engagement, communication, and project planning activities.
• Lead client workshops and information gathering discussions.
• Oversee technical and governance focused implementation plans.
• Work with internal client project teams, subcontractors, and partners.
• Understand and utilise the full range of S-RM's people and expertise.
• Manage junior colleagues and oversee career development where appropriate.