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Practice Overview
Ankura’s well-regarded and fast-growing Cybersecurity and Data Privacy practice offers a full-service suite of information security and privacy solutions for our clients, regardless of industry or size. We provide proactive advisory services such as maturity and preparedness assessments, incident response planning and testing, and cyber resilience, and also managed security services customized to our clients’ requirements.
The cybersecurity team includes leaders from the intelligence community, including former federal law enforcement, private security firms, and pioneering technology companies. Our experts assess cyber risk and readiness, test and harden clients’ infrastructure, and respond instantly and decisively when threats arise. We regularly advise boards of directors, members of the C-suite, general counsel, outside counsel, IT leaders, and other stakeholders at all stages of any cyber incident.
Role Overview:
As a Managing Director, you will be a key member of the cybersecurity risk services team: intimately familiar with the practice's customer support objectives and responsible for designing, managing, and performing cyber risk activities while conveying your results to internal and external customers.
Responsibilities:
Help lead and grow the Technology and Cyber Risk consulting practice and team to support private and commercial clients across a variety of industries
Actively lead, manage, and provide executive level oversight on projects
Utilize professional and personal network to identify new opportunities
Participate in externally facing events (conferences, webinars, etc…) representing Ankura and the Practice to increase market awareness
Work collaboratively with others in the practice and elsewhere in the firm on various initiatives.
Provide strategic insights to leadership teams regarding market trends, service offerings, and staffing changes.
Supervise junior professionals in the performance of the work
Participate in business development by building relationships with current and future clients and working with business development professionals
Identify sales opportunities and progress from a lead to sold engagement
Client service activities (administration and project execution)
Effectively communicate with clients regarding existing projects and upselling of additional services
Development and presentation of project output to key stakeholders, including Executive and Board Level individuals
Participate in the development of standard operating procedures and other practice initiatives
Quality review of deliverables and externally facing content
Collaborate with practice management to provide input into strategic initiatives
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technology related field
10+ years of experience in the Information Security arena
Obtained CISSP or CISM or CIPT certification(s)
Project management and service delivery to clients experience
Ability to confidently interact with clients (officers and/or attorneys)
Frequently communicates with clients and coworkers and must be able to share information effectively
Flexibility and responsiveness in managing multiple projects in sometimes high-pressure situations simultaneously
Ability to travel
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