Associate Director, Cyber Strategy and Transformation

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Cyber security is a critical business issue. Organisations are navigating an increasingly complex threat and regulatory landscape while transforming their businesses, adopting new technologies and seeking to grow with confidence. The choices they make about cyber risk can directly affect resilience, customer trust, regulatory outcomes and the ability to deliver on their strategic priorities.

Deloitte’s Cyber practice helps organisations make those choices and turn them into action. We bring together cyber, technology, transformation and industry expertise to help clients understand their most important risks, define the right response and deliver sustainable change. You’ll join a market-leading UK Cyber practice of more than 450 people, within Deloitte’s broader Technology & Transformation business.

Our work includes

Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation team works with senior leaders on complex, enterprise-level cyber challenges spanning three connected areas:

Cyber strategy and risk

Helping organisations understand the cyber risks that matter most, make informed choices about where to focus and invest, and define practical strategies aligned to business priorities and risk appetite:

• Assess cyber risk, capability and maturity to identify priority areas for action.
• Develop enterprise cyber strategies, investment priorities and risk-based roadmaps.
• Support executives and boards to understand cyber risk and make clear, evidence-based decisions.
• Interpret relevant regulation, standards and emerging threats in the context of an organisation’s strategy and operating environment.

Cyber transformation and delivery

Turning cyber strategy into measurable change by shaping, mobilising and delivering transformation programmes that strengthen capabilities, improve resilience and embed cyber into wider business and technology change.

• Translate strategy and assessment findings into prioritised transformation programmes and delivery plans.
• Shape programme scope, outcomes, governance, dependencies and investment cases.
• Lead or support complex cyber transformation programmes across multiple capabilities and stakeholder groups.
• Help clients track outcomes, manage delivery risk and sustain improvements beyond the programme.

Cyber governance and operating models

Helping organisations establish clear accountability and effective ways to govern, manage and oversee cyber risk across the enterprise.

• Design or evolve cyber governance, decision rights, roles and accountabilities.
• Develop cyber operating models that connect security teams with technology, risk and the wider business.
• Define proportionate policies, oversight mechanisms, metrics and reporting that support effective decision-making.
• Help embed cyber risk management into business-as-usual processes and wider enterprise governance.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As an Associate Director or Director in Cyber Strategy & Transformation, you will help some of the world’s leading organisations navigate complex challenges at the intersection of cyber, technology, risk and business transformation. You will combine strong strategic and commercial judgement with senior client leadership, bringing together expertise from across Deloitte to shape complex agendas, deliver transformational outcomes and build lasting client relationships.

At Associate Director level, you will typically lead significant client relationships, major engagements and strategic growth initiatives within priority accounts. You will play an active role in developing our people, propositions and market presence, while building your own external network and profile.

At Director level, you will additionally be expected to demonstrate sustained opportunity origination, market leadership and a significant contribution to the growth and strategic direction of the practice. You will take broader ownership for priority client relationships, markets or propositions, build a distinctive external profile and help shape where and how we invest and grow.

• Build trusted executive relationships: Develop trusted relationships with CISOs, CIOs, CROs, Boards and ExCo stakeholders, becoming a recognised adviser on complex cyber, technology and business challenges. At Director level, you will increasingly own and grow strategic relationships across priority clients and the wider market.
• Shape complex client agendas: Frame ambiguous problems, challenge established thinking and help senior decision-makers navigate the strategic, commercial, technology and risk choices required to achieve their objectives.
• Lead major engagements and transformations: Provide senior leadership and oversight across complex, multidisciplinary engagements and transformation programmes, maintaining quality, managing risk and ensuring our work delivers meaningful and sustainable client outcomes.
• Bring together Deloitte’s capabilities: Mobilise expertise from across cyber, technology, transformation, risk and industry teams to address clients’ most important challenges and create differentiated, enterprise-wide solutions.
• Originate and grow opportunities: Identify emerging client needs, create demand and lead significant pursuits and commercial conversations. At Associate Director level, you will increasingly originate opportunities and drive growth within priority relationships; at Director level, you will be expected to demonstrate sustained origination and growth of material business.
• Build our market position and external profile: Develop propositions, points of view and go-to-market activity around emerging client priorities, while building strong external networks across clients, industry, technology partners and the wider cyber ecosystem. At Director level, you will be expected to establish a visible market profile and actively strengthen Deloitte’s position in priority areas.
• Lead and develop our people: Build and inspire high-performing teams, coach and sponsor future leaders, create opportunities for others to grow, and help shape the skills and capabilities we need for the future. At Director level, you will play a broader leadership role in developing our talent, culture and leadership pipeline.
• Champion innovation: Use technology, data and AI to challenge how we solve client problems and deliver consulting services, creating new sources of value and improving the effectiveness and scalability of our business.

You will have the opportunity to influence some of the most significant cyber agendas in the market, advise senior executives and boards, shape major transformation programmes and build a distinctive external profile. You will also have a meaningful voice in the future of our Cyber Strategy & Transformation business – helping determine where we invest, how we differentiate and how we grow.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

We are looking for established cyber leaders who combine strong cyber and business judgement with the ability to lead senior client relationships, create opportunities and mobilise Deloitte’s capabilities around complex client problems. You may have developed your career in consulting, industry, government or another complex organisation; what matters is the depth of your experience, the perspective you bring and your ability to create impact with senior clients.

For Associate Director, we are looking for evidence that you can lead significant client relationships and engagements, develop high-performing teams and create growth within priority accounts.

For Director, we will additionally look for a sustained track record of originating significant opportunities, building senior market relationships, developing a recognised external profile and contributing to the strategic and commercial leadership of a business.

Cyber experience

• Core cyber experience: Significant experience in at least one of our three core areas, with the breadth and credibility to operate across adjacent cyber, technology, risk and business challenges.
• Strategic judgement: Demonstrated ability to navigate complex and ambiguous issues, synthesise technical, regulatory, risk and commercial considerations, and provide clear advice to senior executives.
• Transformation leadership: Experience shaping and overseeing significant cyber or technology transformation, translating strategic ambition into prioritised programmes, investment choices and measurable outcomes.
• Frameworks and regulation: Strong understanding of the cyber security frameworks, standards and regulatory environment relevant to your clients, and the ability to interpret their implications in a wider business context.
• Enterprise perspective: Strong understanding of how cyber interacts with technology, enterprise risk, regulation, operations and business strategy, with the judgement to bring together specialist expertise to address complex client needs.

Leadership and consulting skills

• Executive relationships: Build trusted relationships with Board, ExCo and other senior stakeholders, influencing decisions, constructively challenging thinking and establishing credibility as a strategic adviser. At Director level, demonstrate the ability to sustain and grow strategic relationships across multiple senior stakeholders and organisations.
• Commercial leadership: Identify client needs, shape opportunities and lead significant pursuits and commercial conversations. Associate Directors will demonstrate increasing origination and account growth; Directors will bring a sustained track record of originating, converting and growing material business.
• People leadership: Build, inspire and develop diverse, high-performing teams; coach and sponsor others; create opportunities for people to grow; and contribute to building the next generation of leaders. Directors will additionally play a broader role in shaping talent strategy, capability development and the leadership pipeline.
• Industry and market insight: Understand the strategic, commercial, regulatory and technology forces affecting clients and use that perspective to anticipate emerging needs and shape new opportunities.
• Engagement leadership: Provide senior oversight of complex engagements and programmes, taking accountability for client outcomes, commercial performance, quality and risk.
• Market and practice leadership: Contribute to the development of propositions, thought leadership and go-to-market activity and build strong external networks. At Director level, demonstrate a visible external profile and help set the strategic direction and investment priorities of the practice.
• Executive communication: Communicate complex issues with clarity, authority and impact, creating compelling narratives and recommendations for Board and executive audiences.
• Collaboration: Navigate a large, multidisciplinary organisation effectively, building strong internal networks and connecting capabilities from across Deloitte to create greater value for clients and the firm.

Additional experience that would be helpful

The following experience is helpful, but not essential:

• Professional services: Senior experience within consulting or professional services, including responsibility for client relationships, commercial performance and business development.
• Complex transformation: Experience sponsoring, shaping or leading major cyber, technology or enterprise transformation programmes.
• External network and profile: A strong external network across clients, industry, technology partners, regulators or the wider cyber ecosystem, supported by experience contributing to industry forums, publications, events or other thought leadership.
• Proposition development: Experience taking new services or propositions from an emerging market need through to a differentiated offering and commercial growth.
• Professional qualifications: Relevant professional cyber security, technology or risk qualifications where applicable to your background.
• Technology and AI: Experience identifying how AI and emerging technologies can transform client organisations, cyber capabilities and the delivery of professional services.

We value breadth of experience and different perspectives. If you are an established leader with strong cyber judgement, senior client credibility and the ambition to help shape and grow a market-leading Cyber Strategy & Transformation business, we encourage you to apply.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Cyber

The modern world is more complex than ever before, and we are navigating an ever-changing landscape. We help clients to operate with resilience and grow with confidence to secure success and minimise risk. 

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“I belong to a large eco-system of cyber professionals who are extremely knowledgeable and eager to share that knowledge with others.” - Amrita Technology & Transformation

"Everyone at Deloitte builds relationships with their peers and puts in effort to get to know one another, making the work more enjoyable." – Deloitte Employee Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in Bristol, Edinburgh, London or Manchester with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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