Project Lead Information Security Initiatives

Role purpose: Lead and deliver cross-functional information security initiatives, ensuring projects improve security posture, reduce risk, and meet compliance and business objectives., * Own end-to-end delivery of information security projects, including scope, timeline, budget, dependencies, and stakeholders.

• Coordinate security, IT, engineering, and business teams to implement security controls and process improvements.
• Define project plans, milestones, and success metrics; track progress and report status, risks, and issues.
• Support security governance activities such as risk assessments, policy updates, and control validation.
• Ensure alignment with relevant standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, GDPR, or equivalent).
• Drive documentation, change management, and operational handover to ensure sustainable outcomes., The projects vary from rolling out new technologies, enforcing standards, running assessments, and adjusting policies and governance where needed. We are looking for a project lead that can keep oversight across the different projects and steer some of the projects her/himself. This will be in close cooperation with various Group CISO product managers and with various engineering enabling departments in our Group IT services.
• Translate strategic initiatives into concrete plans, including scope, sequencing, and dependencies
• Support prioritization of initiatives based on impact and feasibility
• Define a pragmatic execution approach across multiple business units
• Identify gaps, risks and blockers in the currently defined security initiatives
• Prepare decision-making materials for senior management
• Steering on execution of the various projects with each their separate goal and assigned resources, You will work closely with Group CISO product managers and various engineering and enabling departments within Group IT services. Together, you will drive multiple security-related projects, ranging from technology rollouts to policy and governance improvements, in a highly collaborative and international environment.

• Information security: Practical understanding of security controls, risk management, and common frameworks.
• Project leadership: Proven ability to lead complex initiatives across multiple teams and vendors.
• Stakeholder management: Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Delivery methods: Experience with Agile and/or Waterfall project delivery.
• Documentation: Strong skills in creating plans, reports, policies, and implementation evidence.

Key outcomes

• Security initiatives delivered on time with measurable risk reduction.
• Improved compliance readiness and auditability through clear evidence and processes.

Drive the execution of a set of strategic security improvements that were prompted by recent AI developments into a structured and executable approach across the organization. The Project Lead will focus on shaping, prioritizing, and operationalizing initiatives, ensuring alignment with stakeholders and steering the implementation., * Experienced in leading strategic (IT) projects. Experience in the security and/or infra domain is beneficial

• Comfortable in shaping of initiatives in early-stage or pre-decision contexts, operating in environments where not all information is fully available upfront and where topics may be strategically sensitive
• Proactive and result-driven and ensure you meet agreements made
• A good communicator and able to cooperate in every layer of the company
• Conceptual thinker able to effectively implement necessary business change in a complex stakeholder landscape

Our people are the driving force behind our organisation. We value the knowledge and expertise you bring. We believe that your temporary commitment can take our organization to a higher level. We offer you:

• Competitive hourly rate depending on your knowledge and experience
• June 2026 for the duration of 6 months with possibility to extend
• Hybrid way of working, partly from home and partly in the office
• International working environment with loads of knowledge sharing