Responsibilities:
- Service Delivery/Operational Management:
- Prioritize and execute Avertium resources for customer contract support and delivery.
- Ensure customer satisfaction to meet CSAT objectives.
- Facilitate organizational consensus on complex issues.
- Provide strategic account support with technical and operational insights into industry trends and customer needs.
- Utilize extensive technical and business knowledge to guide organizational strategies and direction.
- Analyze and recommend solutions for senior management on strategic operational matters.
- Manage resource forecasting, requirements, and staffing to meet demand.
- Align delivery resources with business needs, optimizing staff talents.
- Support team execution by removing barriers.
- Foster a growth-oriented and high-performance work environment.
- Ensure adherence to HR, legal, financial, ethics, and governance policies.
- Enhance operational maturity within account portfolios.
- Customer/Relationship Management:
- Manage and grow executive customer relationships for strategic accounts.
- Resolve complex issues with significant business impact.
- Establish trusted advisor partnerships in service delivery management.
- Represent Avertium in industry organizations.
- Potential to act as Account Sponsor.
- Escalate major account issues to Leadership with solutions.
- Financial Management:
- Oversees financial execution of programs within the portfolio of accounts, aiming to meet or exceed the original Plan of Record.
- Maintains program budgets with the capability to present reliable forecasts.
- Collaborates with senior leadership to formulate corrective plans for addressing issues that impact financial performance.
- Shapes the strategic agenda and creates the context for successful partnerships that generate significant business.
- Leads the development of organizational business operating plans.
- Drives Avertium's business goals and initiatives to successful implementation within the organization.
- Manages and coaches the team to achieve best-in-class customer experience, reduce delivery costs, and attain trusted advisor status with customers.
- Partners across the business unit management team to achieve broader Avertium business targets.
- Identifies, develops, and drives tactical projects to support the SDM community in achieving business goals.
Qualifications:
- Required Skills:
- Possesses extensive knowledge of contemporary approaches to managing Threat Detection and Exposure Management operations.
- Experience with extended detection and response (XDR) solutions; preferably Microsoft Defender or SentinelOne.
- Exhibits superior influence and negotiation skills, particularly in crisis and conflict management situations.
- Demonstrates the ability to understand and analyze issues or problems to formulate and implement corrective action plans.
- Proactively and effectively manages risk on high to very high-risk projects.
- Capable of developing and presenting high-impact messages to executive-level management.
- Displays superior communication skills, both verbal and written, with the capability to represent Avertium at external customer and industry events.
- Shows strong ability to lead and coordinate teams, including both global and virtual teams.
- Exhibits strong negotiation skills within workgroups, customers, and Avertium management.
- Customer- and relationship-focused, process-driven, metric-focused, results-oriented, organized, self-directed.
- Ability to multi-task and find innovative solutions to problems.
- Preferred Skills:
- Ability to build & manage strong customer relationship at the executive level.
- Capable of applying business management principles, financial concepts, and contractual knowledge to analyze business needs and develop strategic recommendations.
- Utilizes appropriate knowledge and methodologies to resolve highly complex business issues with significant organizational impact.
- Develops and consistently implements Quality and Continuous Improvement Plans.
- Demonstrates solid project budgeting and forecasting skills.
- Acquires and applies industry sector knowledge (e.g., finance, manufacturing) to benefit customer initiatives.
- BA/BS in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- One (1) to two (2) years of experience managing professional or managed services engagements in an Information security and cybersecurity industry setting.
- Three (3) to Five (5) years of information security or cyber security experience.
- Advanced proficiency in analytical, organizational, project management, interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).