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Cybersecurity Senior Manager

We are a global collective of innovators applying the new every day to improve the way the world works and lives. Help us show the world what's possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions. Empowered with market-leading tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality. Accenture Cybersecurity helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients' needs across their entire value chain. Whether we're defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector's brightest people use Gen AI-enabled technologies to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

The Work: Accenture works with the world's top companies globally to redefine the future of the industries: Consumer Goods & Services; Retail; Travel; Automotive & Mobility; Industrial; Aerospace & Defense; Life Sciences. Our cybersecurity team supports our clients build and execute against cybersecurity strategies that are tailored to the business drivers, risks, and threats relevant to industry. They identify and evaluate security gaps, subsequently driving the implementation of solutions to increase resiliency. They possess relevant cybersecurity technical skills through continuous research of the latest security vulnerabilities, threats, capabilities, and mitigation techniques, and apply these through an industry lens. They lead innovations everyday to create and apply Gen AI tools to help clients address more sophisticated cyber threats. They are expected to anticipate security requirements, analyze, and understand the client security posture and formulate right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices.

You Are: As a Cybersecurity Senior Manager, you will be responsible for helping clients solve their business challenges and growing Accenture's cybersecurity business at the clients. You will provide cybersecurity subject matter expertise, understand clients' cybersecurity challenges and requirements and bring in "fit for purpose" industry aligned solutions to address the client specific needs. You will drive client relationship building and project delivery execution as the primary point of contact for the client and project teams interfacing with client security stakeholders, client business and/or IT stakeholders, Accenture domain experts and other third party teams as needed. You will lead others on your projects, from one to many, across our Analyst, Senior Analyst, Consultant and Manager levels. You will be the business operator and value creator, and will need to lead from the front, ensuring we are partnering with our clients to shape and deliver on committed outcomes. As a team member, you'll be part of an industry team focused on staying on top of industry trends relevant for your client, emerging threats and applying innovative cybersecurity solutions to solve problems across the client's business value chains. You'll work closely with our Industry team to innovate and shape solutions of the future, drive Gen AI innovation and help thought leadership materials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Accenture Cybersecurity engagements by blending deep technical expertise, strategic consulting, and strong relationship management. Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and executive stakeholdersdefining cybersecurity strategies, managing risks, and delivering tailored solutions to address their most critical challenges.
• Own the full engagement lifecycle: from shaping and scoping to budgeting, timelines, risk management, and global delivery.
• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams of cybersecurity consultants and analystsensuring they are enabled and aligned to client needs.
• Collaborate directly with clients and Accenture teams to understand cybersecurity priorities and bring forward industry-aligned, AI-powered solutions.
• Ensure engagements are executed with excellence, delivered profitably, and consistently aligned to client business goals.
• Build trusted relationships across all client levelsfrom executive sponsors to technical and business teams.
• Partner with Accenture Industry teams and ecosystem collaborators to co-create differentiated go-to-market solutions.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging threats. Co-innovate with the industry team(s) to shape future-ready cybersecurity solutions, contribute to thought leadership, and develop white papers, POV and impactful assets.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of hands-on cyber security experience of leading and delivering large/complex cyber security programs in client facing roles
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in one of the relevant industries (Consumer Goods & Services; Retail; Travel; Automotive & Mobility; Industrial; Aerospace & Defense; Life Sciences.), showcasing a deep understanding of the unique challenges and regulatory requirements applicable to these Industries
• Minimum of 5 years of hands on experience and in depth understanding and experience in at least one of the cybersecurity domains (e.g. threat intelligence, threat exposure management, data protection, cloud security, OT security, and so on)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (Minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous consulting experience
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Experience working with market-leading cybersecurity technology partners
• Experience in AI security
• Excellent communication written and oral, and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable with C-Level interaction

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

Role Location Annual Salary Range:

• California $132,500 to $338,300
• Cleveland $122,700 to $270,600
• Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
• District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
• Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
• Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
• Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
• Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
• New York/New Jersey $122,700 to $338,300
• Washington $141,100 to $311,200

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