Cyber Security Program Manager

Overview

Who we are

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Who were looking for

Toyotas Cyber Security Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Cyber Security Program Manager.

As the Cyber Security Program Manager Cyber Security you will serve as a strategic leader accountable for both the hands-on delivery of complex cybersecurity initiatives and the enterprise-level orchestration of multiple interrelated programs. This role is responsible for ensuring cybersecurity efforts are aligned to business strategy risk priorities compliance obligations and long-term technology roadmaps.

You will lead cross-functional planning and execution across security engineering architecture infrastructure risk compliance release management vendors procurement and business addition to owning day-to-day delivery execution you will establish governance drive prioritization remove barriers and influence decisions that impact the cybersecurity portfolio across the enterprise.

This role requires deep program management capability strong cybersecurity domain knowledge excellent stakeholder leadership and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy across complex and ambiguous environments. You are expected to balance tactical execution with strategic leadership ensuring both immediate delivery commitments and long-term program outcomes are achieved.

What youll be doing

These are accountabilities you are solely responsible for and will execute daily/weekly:

• Project and Program Delivery Execution: 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.

• Agile Cadence and Delivery Management: Drive the daily project cadence including stand-ups sprint planning backlog refinement sprint reviews and retrospectives. Ensure work is prioritized appropriately delivery progress is transparent and impediments are escalated and resolved quickly.

• Risk Issue and Dependency Management: 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.

• Budget and Financial Management: Own and manage project and program budgets across all cost categories including labor technology professional services and vendor spend. Monitor actuals versus forecast identify variances and take corrective action to maintain financial alignment.

• Executive and Stakeholder Reporting: Provide clear timely reporting to executive management and team-level stakeholders on scope schedule budget quality risks and decisions. Maintain dashboards scorecards and program communications that support informed decision-making.

• Release Change and Deployment Coordination: 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.

• Compliance and Governance Oversight: 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.

• Vendor and Procurement Management: 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.

• Intake Prioritization and Portfolio Coordination: Own the cybersecurity intake process by triaging categorizing and prioritizing incoming requests. Ensuring work is aligned to business objectives strategically sequenced and appropriately resourced.

Shared Responsibilities

These are areas where you actively participate and drive execution in partnership with other teams or leadership:

• Strategic Roadmap Alignment: Partner with leaders across cybersecurity technology and business functions to maintain and evolve the cybersecurity product and project roadmap in alignment with enterprise priorities.

• Cross-Functional Program Leadership: Lead multiple interdependent cybersecurity initiatives across engineering architecture operations compliance legal procurement and business teams to ensure alignment and execution against shared goals.

• Governance and Decision Forums: Establish and operate program governance routines escalation paths dependency reviews and decision-making forums to keep work moving and resolve cross-functional blockers.

• Resource and Priority Tradeoff Management: 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.

• Organizational Alignment: Influence senior leaders and partners across the enterprise to drive clarity commitment and accountability for cybersecurity outcomes.

Periodic Responsibilities

These are areas you facilitate on a recurring or as-needed basis to support broader organizational maturity:

• Process Improvement and Delivery Maturity: Identify and implement improvements to planning execution governance and reporting processes that increase predictability transparency and efficiency across cybersecurity programs.

• Coaching and Mentorship: Serve as a subject matter resource to project and program teams sharing best practices and mentoring others on delivery methodology risk management and execution discipline.

• Tooling and Data Integrity: 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.

• Strategic Influence: Influence cybersecurity priorities sequencing and long-term planning by surfacing risks tradeoffs and investment implications to senior leadership.

• Executive Escalation Management: Prepare clear recommendations and decision support materials for senior stakeholders when issues conflicts or tradeoffs require executive attention.

What you bring

• Bachelors 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

Added bonus if you have

• Masters 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.

• 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.

What well bring

During your interview process our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities.

A few highlights include:
A work environment built on teamwork flexibility and respect

Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career as well as tuition reimbursement

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)

Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family

Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute

Paid holidays and paid time off

Referral services related to prenatal services adoption childcare schools and more

Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account Health Care FSA Dependent Care FSA)

Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10 different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members efforts to dream do and grow without questioning that they belong.

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