Cyber Security Program Manager

About the role

Tyson is seeking a Cyber Security Program Manager to join their team. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader accountable for both the hands-on delivery of complex cybersecurity initiatives and the enterprise-level orchestration of multiple interrelated programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full delivery lifecycle for complex cybersecurity initiatives, including planning, execution, dependency management, milestone tracking, and delivery oversight across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure committed objectives, timelines, and quality standards are met.
• Drive the daily project cadence, including stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Proactively identify, document, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies using structured frameworks such as RAID logs.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, implement corrective actions, and maintain delivery momentum across competing priorities.
• Own and manage project and program budgets across all cost categories, including labor, technology, professional services, and vendor spend.
• Maintain dashboards, scorecards, and program communications that support informed decision-making.
• Partner with Release Management and other delivery teams to ensure cybersecurity deliverables move through release and change governance processes successfully.
• Confirm readiness, manage dependencies, and ensure all artifacts and approvals are aligned with enterprise controls.
• Ensure cybersecurity initiatives are delivered in alignment with applicable regulations, standards, and internal policies such as NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and enterprise control requirements.
• Partner with GRC, compliance, and risk teams to embed security obligations into execution.
• Manage third-party vendors and service providers to ensure contracted work is delivered on time, within scope, and to quality expectations.
• Support vendor selection, SOW development, milestone tracking, and performance reviews.
• Own the cybersecurity intake process by triaging, categorizing, and prioritizing incoming requests.
• Ensure work is aligned to business objectives, strategically sequenced, and appropriately resourced.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to evaluate competing demands, resource constraints, sequencing options, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Provide recommendations that balance business value, risk reduction, and feasibility.
• Influence senior leaders and partners across the enterprise to drive clarity, commitment, and accountability for cybersecurity outcomes.
• Identify and implement improvements to planning, execution, governance, and reporting processes that increase predictability, transparency, and efficiency across cybersecurity programs.
• Coach and mentor project and program teams, sharing best practices and mentoring others on delivery methodology, risk management, and execution discipline.
• Use tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Power BI, and related platforms to manage plans, track progress, and maintain accurate program data and reporting.
• Surfacing risks, tradeoffs, and investment implications to senior leadership.
• Prepare clear recommendations and decision support materials for senior stakeholders when issues, conflicts, or tradeoffs require executive attention.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in project or program management, including extensive experience in complex, cross-functional environments.
• 5+ years of experience leading cybersecurity, IT, or technology initiatives through the software development lifecycle.
• Strong experience managing multiple concurrent projects or programs with interdependent deliverables, competing priorities, and executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead planning, execution, budgeting, risk management, and governance for complex technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated success influencing without direct authority and partnering effectively with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong judgment and ability to operate independently in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field such as cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, or information technology.
• Experience leading enterprise cybersecurity programs in regulated industries such as financial services, banking, insurance, or automotive.
• Experience with industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or PMP.
• Experience building or improving cybersecurity operating models, governance mechanisms, or portfolio processes.
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, third-party risk, or security architecture programs.