Position: Cyber Project Manager
Location: Kuala Lumpur (KL)
Experience Requirement: 5-8 years in Cybersecurity with leadership experience
Employment Type: 1.5-year renewable contract
Job Summary:
Thales is seeking a skilled and experienced Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead and manage complex cybersecurity projects. In this role, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of cybersecurity systems, focusing on both application and infrastructure. You will oversee project and resource scheduling, tracking, risk management, and quality assurance throughout all project phases.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership: Lead a team of 20+ professionals, managing a variety of medium to large-scale, complex projects.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to align project objectives, propose delivery schedules, and secure the necessary resources.
- Project Planning: Develop detailed project workstreams based on comprehensive understanding of project scope and deliverables.
- Operations Transition: Work closely with the operations and delivery teams to ensure smooth transition into Business-As-Usual (BAU) management.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Coordinate with key stakeholders across different teams to improve alignment and prioritize joint initiatives with technology and business teams.
- Vendor Management: Collaborate with vendors to manage scope, schedules, and cost for project deliverables.
- Project Success Metrics: Ensure success by focusing on clear planning, timely delivery, customer expectations, and milestone completion.
Job Requirements:
- Working Hours: Standard office hours
- Remote Work: Flexible remote work arrangements, with travel expenses reimbursed if required.
- Environment Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Cybersecurity Expertise: Experience in delivering cybersecurity projects, specifically in system engineering and security assessments, within manufacturing environments.
- Standards Knowledge: Strong understanding of industry cybersecurity standards such as IEC 62443, NIST 2.0, and other relevant best practices.
- Customer Focus: Strong customer orientation with a high level of service attitude.
- Analytical Skills: Excellent listening and analytical skills to interpret requirements and solve problems.
- Work Ethic: Enthusiastic, hardworking, and self-motivated with a positive attitude.
- Team Collaboration: Team player, yet capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
- Adaptability: Ability to adapt and thrive in dynamic environments, with a willingness to pick up new technologies as needed.
- System Understanding: Ability to understand system and architecture diagrams, as well as the user operation environment.
