Programmamanager Cybersecurity Strategie
This assignment has been successfully filled.
Browse our open vacancies, or get in touch if your organisation is looking for a similar specialist.
About the assignment
A leading organisation in energy infrastructure is executing a major resilience strategy approved in April 2026. You drive the programmatic realisation of two core themes: Digital Systems and Integrated Security. The challenge is substantial—geopolitical threats, regulatory pressure, and digitalisation demand structural defensive capability.
You operate from the Cybersecurity Strategy team, reporting to the CISO and coordinating with the Resilience Programme Manager. Your role is lightweight programme governance with real impact: you bring clarity, organise dependencies, facilitate critical decisions, and ensure measures move from planning to execution. The structure stays lean—no heavyweight programme bureaucracy.
Your responsibilities
- Consolidate ongoing and planned initiatives into a coherent, integrated programme with clear sequencing
- Design and operationalise lightweight governance, planning, and reporting structures for both themes
- Explicitly surface choices, dependencies, and priorities to unblock decision-making
- Mobilise core teams, identify impediments, and escalate blockers for removal
- Lead implementation oversight for digital resilience measures including architecture alignment and vendor risk management
- Strengthen and harmonise physical and digital security processes: monitoring, access control, screening, procurement
- Prepare and guide critical decisions; serve as sparring partner for Corporate Cybersecurity leadership
- Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable change narratives and establish 2027+ OKRs
Tech Stack & Tools
Frameworks & Standards
Methodologies
Certifications (preferred)
Must-haves
- 10+ years programme management in complex, technical, regulated environments (ideally RWS, ProRail, NS, water boards, or port authorities)
- Demonstrable cybersecurity, digital resilience, or integrated security programme experience
- Proven governance and decision-making orchestration capability
- IT/OT environment and critical infrastructure background
- Political and executive sensitivity; comfort at board and management team level
- Dutch fluency in speech and writing; WO (university) level thinking
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in energy, water, or other vital infrastructure sectors
- Background in regulatory compliance (NIS2, critical infrastructure directives)
- Vendor risk and supply chain security management
What we offer
- Shape cybersecurity strategy at a critical infrastructure organisation protecting the Netherlands
- Lead a high-impact, time-bound programme with genuine executive visibility
- Work directly with CISO and senior leadership on strategic cyber resilience
- 6-month engagement with extension option; competitive contract terms
- Placement in Rotterdam with 2–3 days on-site weekly
- Personal guidance from a dedicated MVPeople consultant who knows your niche
The process
Introduction
Phone call with your MVPeople consultant (within 24 hours)
Match & Brief
We discuss the assignment in detail and prepare you
Client meeting
Introduction to the client
Start
Contracting and onboarding
Details
Type
Secondment (MVProfessionals)
Location
Rotterdam, ZH
Work model
Hybrid
Level
Lead
Industry
energie
Posted
21 April 2026
Job ID
53224
Contact
MVPeople Group
jobs@mvpeoplegroup.comLooking for a similar specialist?
We successfully filled this assignment. Is your organisation looking for a comparable profile? MVPeople introduces the first available specialists within 24 hours for interim, within 72 hours for permanent roles.
Contact us