Strategic Cyber Advisory Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Transform NCC Group’s extensive technical expertise, global cyber knowledge, and market insights into engaging sector-specific propositions.

• Collaborate with sales and delivery teams to formulate account strategies and guide high-value pursuits.

• Enhance executive engagement and establish NCC Group as a long-term partner in cyber resilience.

• Transition client dialogues from project-centric engagements to strategic partnerships, proposition-driven growth, and elevated outcomes.

• Offer senior advisory support on areas such as technical assurance, cyber governance, regulatory preparedness, digital identity, cloud security, application and product security, third-party risk, operational resilience, AI governance, incident preparedness, continuous assurance, and proactive security measures.

• Create sector-specific account strategies, opportunity plans, and pursuit tactics for key accounts.

• Assist account teams in qualifying opportunities, refining executive messaging, and preparing for high-level client meetings.

• Establish trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders by providing independent insights, market knowledge, and practical advice.

• Represent NCC Group through thought leadership initiatives, executive roundtables, industry forums, partner events, and cybersecurity conferences.

• Collaborate across sales, delivery, marketing, public affairs, and client advisory with CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CROs, and stakeholders in audit, risk, compliance, legal, privacy, and board-level functions.

• Concentrate on the Financial Services and Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Retail, or Industrial sectors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive senior-level experience in cybersecurity, cyber advisory, consulting, cyber services, technology, risk, compliance, or security leadership roles.

• In-depth understanding of cyber risk, regulatory standards, audit processes, remediation programs, operational resilience, third-party risk, fraud exposure, data protection, AI risk, and board-level reporting.

• Capability to engage credibly with senior business, technology, risk, and security stakeholders, including CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CROs, enterprise risk leaders, audit, compliance, fraud, legal, privacy, engineering, and board-level audiences.

• A robust network of senior customer relationships and industry contacts.

• Proven success in converting trusted relationships into qualified pipelines, executive introductions, revenue growth, and new logo opportunities.

• Strong expertise in cybersecurity services and offerings, including technical assurance, governance and compliance, identity management, cloud security, incident preparedness, red teaming, continuous testing, managed detection and response, AI security, and third-party risk management.

• Ability to distill complex technical security capabilities into clear business, risk, regulatory, and operational outcomes.

• Strong commercial acumen, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a collaborative, pragmatic, and proactive approach.

• Capacity to influence across Sales, Delivery, Marketing, Product, Solution Architecture, Partners, and senior leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Financial and investment opportunities.

• 401k plan.

• Health and dental insurance.

• Life assurance coverage.

• Annual leave.

• Maternity and paternity leave.

• Community and volunteering programs.

• Employee referral incentives.

• Lifestyle and wellness initiatives.

• Opportunities for learning and development.