Senior Manager - Cybersecurity

Our 27-year journey rides on the passion of over 24,000 seafarers and 1,000 onshore professionals. Today, we are one of the largest independent third-party ship management companies managing over 600 diverse types of vessels.

Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, we operate on a global scale having 27 offices in 12 countries. Our client base spans over 100 world-class ship owners, including Fortune 500 companies from China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the USA, among others.

In a shore career at FLEET, you will be working with a team of a highly passionate, self-driven and committed group of people. We aim to be a place where you can achieve your full potential, regardless of your background. We are looking for individuals who are ambitious about making a strong contribution to FLEET’s short and long-term sustainable growth – whether you are dealing directly with clients or working in a role supporting the business, such as technology, legal or communications.

Job Position Summary   

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Senior Cybersecurity Manager to define, deliver and implement cybersecurity practices across our 20+ global offices and over 650 vessels under management 

The successful candidate will play a leading role in ensuring our cybersecurity defences are well maintained across the organisation – covering people, process and technology.  

This new role, reporting to the CTO, is a key part of Fleet’s focus in leading digital capability for our platforms.  

Key Roles and Responsibilities
As a Senior Cybersecurity Manager, your typical day might include: 

Define & Monitor Cybersecurity Practices 

• Review, implement and enforce Cyber resilience policies across the organisation (offices and vessels) 
• Perform regular risk and vulnerability assessments to identify potential threats putting in place remediation actions 
• Define and implement Cyber Incident Response plan and playbook. Conduct cyber incident response drill on a regular basis 

Stakeholder Management & Communication 

• Coordinate and implement strategies to build greater understanding of security risks and drive action across all functions 
• Provide regular updates on progress against overall cybersecurity strategy to CTO 
• Playing a part in any regular audits that take place 

Team & Vendor Management 

• Work across different IT teams to drive a culture of cybersecurity awareness and best practice – particularly with our in-house development teams 
• Manage and mentor a team of cybersecurity professionals to support their career development 
• Build and maintain partnerships with vendors to deliver the overall vision and to identify latest trends and technologies 

Relationship:
INTERNAL:  

• Internal Stakeholders & Teams – including up to Executive Directors 
• Ops & Support (based in HK & India) 
• Development & Analytics teams (based in HK & India) 

EXTERNAL: 

• Managing vendors/third parties 

Job Experience, Functional Knowledge and Qualifications

ESSENTIAL 

• 8+ years of experience in IT security and/or compliance 
• Provide ability to lead and implement Cybersecurity policies and practices in accordance with industry best practices 
• Proven experience in incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management and security monitoring tools 
• Proven vendor management collaboration – working with multiple service vendors 
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with all levels (up to C-suite) in spoken and written English 

DESIRABLE 

• Certifications in CISSP, CISM, CISA or GCIH 
• Working understanding of international frameworks and standards such as ISO9000, 270001 and PCI/DSS 
• AWS or Azure certifications / hands-on experience 
• Understanding of Maritime industry and OT systems context 

Competencies

• Analysis & Problem Solving: Uses a systematic approach to root cause analysis on complex problems to identify underlying trends and put forward well-thought-out solutions to address the causes and reduce risk 
• Listening & Communicating: Is effective in communicating his vision with a wider audience. A good communicator knows when to use which channel, and which tone of voice in order to drive maximum impact. 
• Collaboration, Inclusion & Teamwork: A great team player who pro-actively goes out there to encourage, support and recognise work performed by others. The person is always trying to find common ground to share his ideas and experience. 
• Customer Focus: Proactive in maintaining relationships and managing customer expectations effectively. Takes a partnership approach to solve problems and improve service standards using data to define continuous improvement 
• Planning & Organising: Uses technology and tools to drive effective project planning with projects having clear success criteria and milestones. Escalates in a timely manner and seeks feedback with all colleagues throughout the execution phase mitigating risks as they arise. 
• Initiative: Always looks for opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness in their own and other peoples work backed by clear rationale and benefits to the business. Role models desired change behaviour and uses external best practice as reference. 
• Accountability: Sets high work and ethical standards for self and others including budget management, work quality, timelines. Ensures that tasks and projects within responsibility areas meet promises made. Acknowledges mistakes openly identifying learnings to be applied. 
• Resilience & Managing Well-being: Maintains continuing high-performance standards when under additional pressure, higher workload or in changing circumstances. Recovers quickly from setbacks or feedback, applying lessons learnt. Maintains composure in stressful situations. 
• Adaptability: Takes a leadership role in supporting colleagues through business change initiatives. Identifies improvements in line with changing business strategies. Puts themselves in place of the people being impacted when implementing change 
• Industry & Business Acumen: Keeps up with shipping industry and business trends for improvement. Contributes to plans and meetings with good grasp of company priorities. Evaluates metrics to identify work priorities and recommends viable improvement ideas 
• Setting Direction & Planning: Develops clear plans and priorities for own work and team alignment. Aligns tasks and plans with business strategies and departmental KPIs. Balances work distribution fairly and shares progress with stakeholders. 
• Including and Empowering the Team: Listens to all team members, empathises with concerns and looks for solutions. Shares knowledge and plans to help the team connect with wider strategies. Trusts and supports team members, focuses on their wellbeing and individual circumstances 
• Developing Organisational and Team Capability: Takes time to understand team motivations, skills and aspirations. Creates targeted development plans covering both hard and soft skills. Recognises potential in team members and provides regular constructive feedback for development to accelerate their career growth 
• Driving High Performance:  Sets high standards, tackles poor performance and models values. Manage costs effectively, leads continuous improvement and aligns team behaviour. High-quality leadership is required with focus on quality, accuracy, and timeliness 

Fleet Management Limited is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by local laws.