Global Cybersecurity Senior Manager

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What You'll Do

1. Lead ISPM Findings Triage (Heart of the Role)

• Independently own and drive the triage of identity and entitlement data surfaced by BCG's ISPM system covering:

  • Human identities
  • Non-human identities (service accounts, workloads, bots)
  • Privileged and highly sensitive access

• Apply senior-level judgement to classify findings by:

  • Criticality per BCG risk index
  • Acceptable vs. contextual risk vs. noise
  • Elimination of false positives using business context and identity risk scoring

• Own prioritisation decisions based on risk impact, blast radius, and business alignment with full autonomy

2. Lead Identity Risk Interpretation & Contextualisation

• Independently assess and determine justification for access including:

  • Excessive privilege
  • Dormant but dangerous accounts
  • Toxic combinations
  • Lateral movement risk

• Map findings to real attack paths, emerging threat patterns, and regulatory requirements

• Translate graph-based insights into authoritative risk narratives for technical teams and executive stakeholders including CISO, CIO, CTO, and CRO

• Shape BCG's identity risk strategy through programme-level recommendations with direct senior leadership visibility

3. Own Remediation Outcomes

• Define and drive specific remediation actions including:

  • Entitlement right-sizing
  • Privilege removal or restriction
  • Ownership reassignment
  • Policy or process refinement

• Serve as the senior point of accountability for remediation progress across IAM, Cloud Security, Application Owners, and GRC

• Influence IGA development roadmap based on findings and remediation patterns

• Track items through closure and validate measurable, reportable risk reduction at enterprise scale

4. Own and Mature the Playbook Framework

• Design, own, and continuously improve playbooks for:

  • Privileged access risk
  • Non-human identity governance
  • Cloud-to-data access risks
  • Orphaned or over-permissioned identities

• Set and own enterprise programme standards including:

  • Severity thresholds and risk scoring methodology
  • Escalation criteria and cross-team engagement models
  • SLA expectations for remediation by risk tier

• Lead ISPM policy tuning to continuously improve signal quality and reduce noise at enterprise scale

5. Serve as BCG's Senior Identity Security Subject Matter Expert

• Act as the definitive internal authority on ISPM for the Cybersecurity function

• Drive understanding of dashboards, risk trends, and identity exposure patterns across senior stakeholder teams

• Lead audit and compliance responses with evidence-based, defensible explanations

• Independently produce and own executive-ready reporting articulating:

  • "What changed"
  • "Why it matters"
  • "What we are doing about it"

• Proactively shape identity risk strategy by identifying programme gaps and driving improvements at senior leadership level

What You'll Bring

Must-Have

• 8+ years of experience in IAM, cloud security, identity governance, or related security analytics

• Deep expertise in:

  • Privileged access models and enterprise governance frameworks
  • Human vs. non-human identity risk scenarios
  • Entitlement and role-based risk analysis at enterprise scale

• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex risk decisions and drive enterprise remediation programmes across multiple senior stakeholder teams

• Strong executive communication skills — able to translate highly technical identity risk into board-level narratives without supervision

• Proven track record of building, owning, and maturing enterprise-scale security programmes and playbooks

Nice-to-Have

• Hands-on experience with identity platforms such as Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID

• Exposure to cloud IAM across AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Familiarity with IGA platforms and access review processes

• Experience with ServiceNow or Jira for vulnerability and remediation tracking

• Exposure to Zero Trust frameworks and identity-centric security architecture

• Experience supporting identity-related audits or regulatory compliance initiatives

Success Metrics

• Consistent reduction in unjustified privileged access across the enterprise

• Time-to-triage for ISPM findings at programme scale

• Percentage of findings with clear business justification or active remediation plan

• Demonstrable and reportable reduction in overall identity risk posture

• Increased executive confidence in identity risk reporting and programme maturity

• Quality and adoption of playbooks across IAM and Cloud Security teams

Additional info

BCG's ISPM provides unparalleled visibility into identities, entitlements, and risk — but visibility alone is not risk reduction. This Senior Manager is the senior individual driving the essential link between identity discovery and measurable risk reduction. With deep expertise and enterprise-level programme influence, this role moves BCG from "we have visibility" to "we have a mature, outcomes-driven identity risk programme."

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