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Head Cyber Security Consulting Services

Head-Security-Consulting-Services

For over 10 years, our client has been one of the most successful cyber security providers in Switzerland. Their customers come from the Healthcare, Banking & Insurance, Public Administration and Industrial & Commercial sectors. Services include endpoint & edge security, network security, cloud/hyperscale security, access management, IT and cyber security consulting services. To support the next phase of growth, we are looking for a Head of Security Consulting Services.

How you can benefit from talking to us:

  • Salary comparison, current salary to market salary
  • Understanding your career options
  • Identification of development and promotion potential
  • 65% of candidates will be making a career move within the next 12 to 24 months

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Why this challenge is interesting for you

 

Entrepreneurial mindset

  • Your benefit: Fast decision making, uncomplicated, pleasant environment combined with high ethical values

 

Management knows the business

  • Your benefit: Top management is also involved in projects and has decades of experience in the Swiss cyber security business

 

Full utilisation and recurring customers

  • Your benefit: You will develop a healthy, established and predictable consulting business with the best in the industry

 

Modern organisation & team bonus

  • Your benefit: You won't find any elbow grease or misguided bonus incentives. Flat hierarchies and a team bonus are the hallmarks of our corporate culture, which is always focused on working together

What makes you different

  • You are a specialist Information & Cyber Security Consultant
  • You are looking for an alternative to well-known consulting firms or large, cumbersome organisations affiliated with a corporation
  • You value freedom and the ability to shape your work without endless bureaucracy
  • You value client contact, solution development and on-site consulting
  • Ongoing reporting and invoicing are secondary

 

Conditions

  • Headquarters in Bern, home office option
  • Territory: Switzerland
  • Full utilisation for years
  • Attractive salary/bonus model, with potential for equity participation in the future

 

What sets you apart

  • You have been a consultant in the Swiss security market for many years
  • You are valued by your clients as both a specialist and a trusted advisor
  • As a solution-oriented person, you are client-focused and committed, from proposal request to implementation
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, able to persuade and inspire people
  • High level of self-motivation, determination and commitment
  • Comfortable interacting at all levels, e.g. from C-level, CISO, data centre managers to end users
  • Enjoy building, nurturing and developing junior consultants
  • Your toolkit includes: CISSP, CISM, CISO, CRISC, IAM, SOC, Zero Trust, ISO 27001/27017, NIST

 

Consulting Offering for Cyber Security

  • Cyber risk resilience
  • Organisational security awareness consulting
  • Security architecture on-premise and in the hyper-scale environment
  • Governance, risk, compliance in the context of security consulting
  • Cyber audit, assessment

 

Role, function

  • Head Cyber Security Consulting
  • Accountability and leadership of the consulting team
  • Develop existing client relationships and acquire new clients
  • Recruit new staff
  • Expand and develop the security consulting portfolio

Application & Contact

Erik Wirz
Erik Wirz
Managing Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email erik.wirz@w-gruppe.com

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Recruitment Process

In an initial conversation, we will give you a detailed insight into the role, the company, the culture and your development opportunities.

After an initial conversation with the partner (headhunter), you will receive further information about the role and our client's expectations. If you are interested, please send us your documents. Wirz & Partners will draw up a longlist which will be discussed with the client. From this longlist, 4-6 candidates are selected for the shortlist.

 

Time until feedback: 2-3 weeks

If you make it to the shortlist, you will move on to the next round. During the interview with Wirz & Partners, we will get to know you professionally and personally. You will receive additional information about the client, the offering, the services, the team and the KPIs. Based on all interviews and documents, we prepare a complete dossier on you for the client, including an executive summary. These documents form the basis of the structured interview process with the client. We prepare you for the interview.

 

Duration until the interview with the client: Up to 2 weeks

The first meeting with the client is about getting to know each other on an equal footing, getting to know the people and the culture. This takes place in person at the client's location and usually lasts around an hour.

The second interview focuses on professional competencies and leadership issues. You will get to know the team, the strategy and the operational goals.

You will then receive a salary proposal and an overview of the overall offer.

 

Duration until feedback: 1-2 weeks

A de-briefing with you and the client takes place after the final meeting.

We help you negotiate the contract and clarify further details. The contract is drafted and we support the onboarding process with the client.

 

Duration until feedback: Up to 1 week

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