Security Consulting Manager - Chemicals, Natural Resources

About the role

Accenture's Cybersecurity practice is a global leader delivering end-to-end cybersecurity services across strategy, risk management, digital identity, cyber defense, and managed security. With security professionals in 70 countries and specialized facilities like Cyber Fusion Centers and Cyber Labs, the practice focuses on embedding security into digital transformation programs and delivering targeted solutions to protect digital assets, manage cyber risk, and ensure regulatory compliance.

As a Cybersecurity Manager within the Chemicals & Natural Resources (CNR) industry team, you will leverage cybersecurity innovation to drive strategic transformation across chemical manufacturers, oil & gas operators, mining companies, and agricultural enterprises. The role demands deep expertise across IT and OT environments to guide CNR clients through complex business, technology, safety, and resilience challenges — assessing capabilities, advising on leading practices, and shaping cybersecurity strategies aligned with business priorities, regulatory obligations, and operational realities.

Responsibilities

Engagement & delivery

• Manage complex information security engagements and workstreams, providing cybersecurity subject matter expertise, coordinating project delivery, and serving as a key point of contact for client security, business, and IT stakeholders, Accenture domain experts, and third-party teams.
• Lead and manage plans, risks, budgets, and deliverables; shape practical solutions that achieve committed client outcomes.
• Build trusted working relationships with CNR client stakeholders, translating cybersecurity, safety, regulatory, and operational resilience priorities into actionable workplans and deliverables.
• Manage cybersecurity workstreams and project teams delivering solutions across cyber defense, AI-enabled security, risk management, and compliance, aligned with client objectives, scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Develop clear recommendations, status reports, and executive-ready materials; present findings and delivery progress to client and Accenture stakeholders.
• Supervise and coach project team members, assign work, review deliverables, and foster a collaborative, accountable, high-performing delivery environment.

CNR strategy & innovation

• Apply deep knowledge of CNR operations, regulatory obligations, threat trends, and technology modernization to shape practical client strategies tailored to chemical, energy, and natural resource environments.
• Collaborate with CNR clients to create and implement forward-looking strategies that secure operational technology modernization, process control systems, supply chain digitization, cloud adoption, and IT/OT convergence while protecting worker safety, environmental compliance, and operational continuity.
• Support CNR clients in the secure adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning across industrial operations — including AI-driven process optimization, predictive maintenance, and autonomous systems — ensuring security, safety, and governance controls are embedded from inception.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to align security initiatives with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Manage cybersecurity assessments, strategy workstreams, and implementation activities across CNR enterprise and operational environments, including IT, OT/ICS, cloud, process control networks, distributed control systems (DCS), SCADA, historian systems, and manufacturing execution systems (MES), while supporting applicable requirements such as IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-82, EPA Risk Management Program, TSA Security Directives, CIRCIA, API 1164, and industry-specific HSE regulations.
• Support senior leaders in advising CNR stakeholders on integrating cybersecurity risk management into operational resilience, capital programs, plant modernization, emergency preparedness, and sustainability initiatives.
• Manage CNR cybersecurity transformation workstreams focused on secure IT/OT convergence, network segmentation, internal network security monitoring, threat detection modernization, cyber resilience, and identity and access management for critical industrial infrastructure.
• Facilitate CNR-specific threat modeling, incident response, and recovery-readiness activities for risks such as ransomware, nation-state activity, supply chain compromise, insecure remote access, and attacks affecting chemical plants, refineries, pipelines, or mining operations.
• Work with architects, ecosystem partners, and technology vendors to develop scalable cybersecurity solutions that enable secure OT modernization, automation, cloud adoption, connected field devices, and digital supply chain services without compromising operational safety or continuity.
• Contribute CNR cybersecurity expertise to client engagements, proposals, and internal forums.
• Support Accenture Security and CNR teams in developing differentiated offerings, reusable assets, and go-to-market materials for CNR clients.

Requirements

Experience

• Minimum 6 years designing, developing, implementing, or managing solutions across cybersecurity domains such as industry strategy, security operations, risk management, digital identity, network security, vulnerability management, data protection, cloud security, and OT security.
• Minimum 3 years leading project teams or workstreams, including planning, delivery management, risk and issue management, and quality review.
• Minimum 3 years delivering cybersecurity solutions for chemical manufacturers, oil & gas operators, mining companies, or agricultural enterprises across enterprise IT or operational technology environments.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.
• If Associate's Degree, minimum 6 years work experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CRISC, TOGAF, SABSA.
• Experience with CNR industry cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks, including IEC 62443, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-82, EPA RMP Cybersecurity, TSA Security Directives, CIRCIA, API 1164, and relevant HSE/process safety regulations.

Pay

Annual salary ranges by location (as required by local law):

• California: $94,400 – $293,800
• Colorado: $94,400 – $253,800
• Connecticut: $94,400 – $253,800
• District of Columbia: $100,500 – $270,300
• Illinois: $87,400 – $253,800
• Maine: $80,400 – $216,200
• Maryland: $94,400 – $253,800
• Massachusetts: $94,400 – $270,300
• Minnesota: $94,400 – $253,800
• New York: $87,400 – $293,800
• New Jersey: $100,500 – $293,800
• Ohio: $87,400 – $235,000
• Virginia: $87,400 – $270,300
• Washington: $100,500 – $270,300

Compensation varies depending on factors including specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

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