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- United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Salary
- $86K – $118K / year
- Posted
- 9 November 2026
- Apply by
- 8 January 2027
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The Cybersecurity Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen the organization's security posture, reduce risk, improve compliance, and enable business objectives. Each project manager role will be anchored to projects within a key cybersecurity domain or, in some cases, to initiatives requiring partnership across multiple cybersecurity domains, such as Identity Security, Threat Management, Security Operations, Product Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Network Security, Cloud Security, and Emerging Technologies.
The Cybersecurity Project Manager serves as a trusted delivery leader who translates strategy into execution, aligns stakeholders around shared outcomes, manages risks and dependencies, and ensures initiatives are delivered predictably and transparently. This individual operates across technical and business teams, partnering with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes.
The Cybersecurity Project Manager connects cybersecurity strategy to execution and ensures initiatives achieve their intended cybersecurity outcomes, such as risk reduction, control coverage, remediation, adoption, resilience, or capability maturity.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and operational transition.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, and action items.
- Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, technology organizations, business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.
- Drive execution of initiatives related to areas such as Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Security Operations, Threat Detection & Response, Network Security, Application Security, Cloud Security, AI Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Security Architecture.
- Facilitate planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, executive updates, governance forums, and project steering meetings.
- Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and schedule impacts; develop mitigation and response plans.
- Establish and maintain project reporting that provides clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, milestones, and business outcomes.
- Experience developing status reporting and stakeholder communications, including leadership-level communications.
- Partner with cybersecurity leaders to align project execution with strategic objectives, capability roadmaps, and organizational priorities.
- Manage project scope, goals, and timeline while ensuring alignment with approved objectives.
- Partner with portfolio management to maintain project budgets and forecasts, including resource allocations and time tracking for the project.
- Drive accountability for commitments and facilitate timely resolution of issues and blockers.
- Support vendor engagements, contract deliverables, procurement activities, and implementation planning when applicable.
- Ensure delivery artifacts, documentation, governance requirements, and project controls are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
- Promote consistency in project delivery practices while adapting approaches to Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery models as needed.
- Lead project teams without direct authority.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of project management experience leading projects in technology, cybersecurity, risk management, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience managing initiatives involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Experience delivering projects in one or more cybersecurity domains such as Identity Security, Security Operations, Incident Response, Cloud Security, Network Security, Cyber Risk, Governance, Product Security, Application Security, or Security Engineering.
- Strong knowledge of project management disciplines including planning, risk management, dependency management, stakeholder engagement, governance, and reporting.
- Experience developing executive-level communications, status reporting, and decision-support materials.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment in matrixed organizations.
- Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, vendor engagements, or investment-funded initiatives.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment with changing priorities.
- Fluency in ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) for project financial management, forecasting, resource allocation, and time tracking.
- To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
- In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs.
- Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary.
- Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Nice to have
- Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI-ACP, or equivalent.
- Experience working within Agile, SAFe, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery environments.
- Experience with enterprise delivery and planning tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Jira Align, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory requirements such as NIST, CIS Controls, Zero Trust, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, PCI, or related standards.
- Understanding of cybersecurity technologies and concepts including identity management, threat detection, vulnerability management, cloud security, incident response, security governance, and security architecture.
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Salary
- The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting.
- The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$86,300 - $118,700 per yearThis job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan.
- This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
About Humana
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.Application Deadline: 11-11-2026
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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