Cyber Security Manager

A leading national professional services firm is seeking a Cybersecurity Manager to lead its cyber function, strategy, and maturity uplift. This is a broad, high-impact role suited to an aspiring CISO who enjoys operating across governance, technology risk, vendor management, cyber awareness, incident response, and strategic uplift. You will work closely with the CIO, guide internal technology teams, manage external security partners, and help drive the organisation toward stronger ISO 27001 alignment, improved data governance, and a more mature cyber posture.

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About the Role
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• Lead the development and execution of the cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, and maturity uplift program across the firm
• Own cyber governance, technology risk management, security policies, control frameworks, reporting, and the IT risk register
• Drive ISO 27001 readiness, client cyber assessments, third-party risk reviews, and information security input into tenders
• Manage external security providers across SOC, SIEM, incident response, vulnerability management, and cyber operations
• Provide practical cyber guidance to infrastructure, engineering, application development, and wider business stakeholders
• Lead cyber awareness programs, phishing testing, incident response planning, and key cyber improvement initiatives

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About You
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• Strong GRC, technology risk, and cyber governance experience, ideally gained in a broad cyber leadership role
• Exposure to ISO 27001, NIST, Essential 8, or similar frameworks with experience lifting cyber maturity
• Commercial risk mindset with the ability to interpret standards pragmatically and make business-aligned recommendations
• Strong stakeholder management skills including the ability to influence technical teams without direct reporting lines
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft security technologies, vulnerability management, and security operations tooling
• Experience managing vendors, cyber uplift projects, assessments, incident response, or cyber awareness programs

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What's on Offer
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• $200,000 including super
• Reporting directly to the CIO
• 3 days in office | Melbourne hybrid
• Growing national firm with genuine investment in cyber maturity and long-term capability
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Emmbr is a technology recruitment business with more than 16 years of experience in the Australian market. If this role sounds like the right fit, or you'd like a confidential conversation about the opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.