[Hiring] Cybersecurity Manager @Wood

Role Description

Wood is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Manager to join our Cybersecurity team. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Cybersecurity, you will lead assigned areas of Wood’s cybersecurity program and help translate strategic priorities into effective operational delivery. This role is fully remote, with occasional travel to UK offices on an ad hoc basis.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing day-to-day leadership to cybersecurity teams
• Overseeing services and projects
• Managing risk and suppliers
• Giving senior management clear visibility of performance, priorities, and emerging issues
• Influencing and improving cybersecurity delivery across a complex, global organization
• Working with a broad range of technical teams, business stakeholders, and external partners
• Strengthening services that protect Wood’s people, information, technologies, and operations
• Leading, coaching, and supporting assigned Cybersecurity Team Leads and specialists
• Translating cybersecurity strategy and program priorities into clear plans, actions, and outcomes
• Overseeing assigned cybersecurity services, controls, and operational activities
• Managing demand across incidents, investigations, service requests, security reviews, and improvement activities
• Leading assigned projects and workstreams, maintaining clear ownership, milestones, risks, and dependencies
• Monitoring delivery against agreed scope, timescales, budgets, and expected outcomes
• Maintaining accurate dashboards, operational reporting, and management information
• Identifying and escalating material risks, service issues, resource constraints, and delivery concerns
• Supporting the effective coordination of significant cybersecurity incidents and investigations
• Managing assigned suppliers and managed security service providers
• Building effective relationships across Cybersecurity, IT, business functions, and corporate teams
• Communicating cybersecurity risks and requirements in clear, business-focused language
• Supporting governance reviews, audits, assurance activities, and remediation programs
• Turning lessons from incidents, investigations, audits, and service failures into sustained improvements
• Improving services through standardization, automation, knowledge sharing, and effective ways of working

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, or related discipline
• Experience leading cybersecurity teams, technical specialists, operational services, or major workstreams
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity operations, governance, risk management, and control environments
• Experience managing projects, suppliers, operational services, and competing priorities
• Ability to translate technical cybersecurity matters into clear business risks, decisions, and actions
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
• Confidence to make proportionate decisions and raise material concerns constructively
• Ability to work autonomously while maintaining effective alignment with senior leadership
• Experience in a complex, enterprise-scale, or geographically dispersed organization
• Strong commitment to confidentiality, integrity, and ethical decision-making

Requirements

• Holder of CISM or CISSP certification or equivalent is desirable
• Knowledge of recognized cybersecurity and risk-management frameworks
• Experience supporting significant incidents, investigations, or crisis management
• Experience managing outsourced cybersecurity services or technology suppliers
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory activities, certifications, or customer assurance
• Relevant professional certification or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Meaningful and interesting projects
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team, and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package, inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance
• Commitment to continued professional development with tailored development plans
• Global connections with experts around the world shaping the standards of our profession