The Role
Lead delivery of cyber crisis management and resilience programmes: design and run tabletop and executive exercises, perform risk and resilience assessments, create response plans and playbooks, advise clients on security strategy, manage engagements and mentor junior consultants, and draft policies aligned with regulatory requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Please note: Dutch language verbal en writing is required for this position.
As a Managing Security Consultant specialising in Cyber Crisis management, you will help organisations strengthen their ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
As a Managing Security Consultant specialising in Cyber Crisis management, you will help organisations strengthen their ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
Using your industry experience and technical expertise, you will provide strategic guidance and practical solutions to identify, assess, and mitigate cyber security risks.
You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, leading the delivery of cyber resilience programmes, crisis management exercises, and incident response preparedness activities. You will translate complex technical issues into clear, business-focused recommendations that support effective decision-making and organisational resilience.
You will lead client engagements and manage projects or workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction. You will also provide guidance and oversight to junior consultants, foster collaboration across the team, and share knowledge and lessons learned to continuously develop capability within the practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver client engagements as lead consultant and/or part of a team
- Design, develop and facilitate operational, tactical and strategic cyber crisis readiness exercises
- Conduct risk assessments, cyber crisis management assessments and resilience reviews, providing actionable recommendations and improvement roadmaps
- Manage or collaborate with IT and development teams to integrate security practices into the business processes
- Creating reports or presentations for clients
- Advise management on high level security strategies.
- Draft independently security policies, guidelines, and control frameworks in alignment with regulatory requirements
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Technical Skills
Knowledge and use of various relevant tools, methods and techniques;
- Strong knowledge and practical application of cyber crisis management, cyber resilience and organisational response frameworks
- Proven experience designing, facilitating and evaluating cyber crisis exercises including; crisis exercises, tabletop simulation and executive-level exercises
- Understanding of incident response, crisis management, business continuity and recovery principals within resilience programmes
- Ability to design and validate cyber response plans, crisis management plans and cyber playbooks
- Understanding of security protocols, authentication, authorization, and security vulnerabilities;
- Basic knowledge with security frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, NIS2, DORA) and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA);
- Proven experience designing, facilitating and evaluating cyber crisis exercises including; crisis exercises, tabletop simulation and executive-level exercises
- Understanding of incident response, crisis management, business continuity and recovery principals within resilience programmes
- Ability to design and validate cyber response plans, crisis management plans and cyber playbooks
- Understanding of security protocols, authentication, authorization, and security vulnerabilities;
- Basic knowledge with security frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, NIS2, DORA) and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA);
Personal Skills
- Analytical and critical thinking abilities;
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal, both internal and external facing) across various levels of an organization;
- Dutch language verbal en writing
- Collaboration and teamwork within multi-disciplinary teams;
- Project management skills for client projects;
- Time management and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously;
- Reporting & Presentation skills for external presentations to clients after a project;
- Commercial awareness
Certifications are an advantage
Examples such as:
- CISM, CISSP for C&I consultants.
Ways of Working
Focusing on Clients and Customers.
Always Learning.
Delivering Brilliantly.
Benefits
We have a high-performance culture which is balanced evenly with world-class well-being initiatives and benefits:
- Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
- Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
- Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
- Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
- Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
- Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
- Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
- Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
- Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.
About
We assess, develop and manage cyber threats across our increasingly connected society. We advise global technology, manufacturers, financial institutions, critical national infrastructure providers, retailers and governments on the best way to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.With our knowledge, experience and global footprint, we are best placed to help businesses identify, assess, mitigate & respond to the risks they face.We are passionate about making the Internet safer and revolutionising the way in which organisations think about cyber security.Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with over 35 offices across the world, NCC Group employs more than 2,000 people and is a trusted advisor to 15,000 clients worldwide.
Skills Required
- Dutch language (verbal and written)
- Proven experience leading cyber crisis management and resilience programmes
- Designing, facilitating and evaluating crisis exercises (tabletop, simulation, executive)
- Understanding of incident response, crisis management, business continuity and recovery principles
- Ability to design and validate cyber response plans, crisis management plans and playbooks
- Knowledge of security protocols, authentication, authorization and vulnerability concepts
- Basic knowledge of security frameworks and compliance (ISO 27001, NIST, NIS2, DORA; GDPR, HIPAA)
- Experience managing client engagements, leading workstreams and project management skills
- Strong communication, reporting and presentation skills for client-facing deliverables
- Ability to draft security policies, guidelines and control frameworks aligned with regulatory requirements
- Certifications such as CISM or CISSP
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The Company
What We Do
NCC Group is a global cyber security and resilience company that helps organizations manage risk, strengthen resilience, and build trust. They provide services in cyber security consulting, managed services, technical assurance, and software escrow.
