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Associate Director, Cyber Security

London, United KingdomOnsiteFull TimeDirectorPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Teneo is seeking experienced Associate Directors for its global cyber security team. This role involves providing expert cyber security strategy, risk, and response advisory services to clients, often in high-stakes situations. Key responsibilities include leading client engagements, acting as a senior advisor, managing workstreams, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and driving cyber strategy and resilience initiatives. The role also requires leading, mentoring, and developing junior team members. Candidates should have a strong track record in delivering complex cyber security engagements and possess leadership capabilities, with expertise in areas like data security, IAM, security operations, or threat intelligence being preferred.

The Role

At Teneo, we provide expert cyber security strategy, risk and response advisory within a multi-disciplinary environment, working closely with our strategy and communications, risk advisory and restructuring teams across a globally connected platform.

We are seeking experienced Cyber Security Associate Directors to join our growing global cyber team. This role is suited to a cyber security professional with strong experience across cyber strategy, risk, response and recovery, including advising organisations through incidents and supporting remediation and longer-term transformation.

You will play a leading role in delivering client engagements, acting as a senior advisor to clients and working closely with Directors and Managing Directors to support clients through complex and high-stakes situations.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate Director, you will take ownership of significant components of client engagements, lead teams and workstreams, and play an active role in client relationship management and business development.

  • Lead the delivery of complex cyber strategy, risk, response and recovery engagements, owning workstreams and coordinating multidisciplinary teams
  • Act as a key advisor to clients during cyber incidents and high-pressure situations, supporting decision-making, coordination and recovery efforts
  • Drive cyber strategy, risk and resilience initiatives, including assessments, operating model design, and transformation roadmap development
  • Develop and present clear, structured insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Lead, mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a high-performing and collaborative team environment
  • Key Skills & Experience

    You will have a strong track record of delivering complex cyber security engagements and demonstrate growing credibility as a senior advisor, with the ability to bridge technical and strategic domains.

  • Extensive experience across cyber strategy and risk and/or cyber response and recovery, with a track record of delivering complex engagements
  • Proven ability to lead workstreams and manage teams across multi-disciplinary, cross-border engagements
  • Expertise in one or more cyber domains such as data security, identity and access management, security operations or threat intelligence
  • Demonstrated leadership capability, with experience managing and developing teams in fast-paced environments
  • About Teneo

    Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

    Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

    Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I. The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

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