Cybersecurity - Identity Access Management Manager

Cybersecurity - Identity Access Management Manager

• Full-time

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Recognized by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2025, Wavestone UK now boasts a team of 300 employees, with ambitions to rapidly grow in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory, and IT advisory. We exist to provide end‑to‑end expert advice to clients across industries, with a particular focus on Insurance, Financial Services and Life Sciences – helping them to positively transform into modern, innovative organizations that thrive in a sustainable way.

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Cybersecurity Consulting Services in Europe (Q4 2025). Wavestone was evaluated in the prestigious report and was rated as a “Strong Performer”.

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Wavestone UK are seeking to hire a Cybersecurity – Identity Access Management Manager

Becoming a Cybersecurity Manager will mean joining the Global Cybersecurity Practice which is an independent and an in‑house team of 1000+ consultants working seamlessly across the globe (London, Paris, New York, Geneva, Hong Kong, Singapore). We have developed a 360° expertise from strategies, operating models, Executive‑level supports to Red teaming, security architecture with a focus on major transformation programs.

• Lead Digital Identity strategy engagements, defining target capabilities, governance, and delivery roadmap across Workforce/CIAM/PAM
• Deliver current‑state assessments (maturity, governance, lifecycle controls) and define target‑state capabilities, operating model, and controls framework
• Own IAM requirements definition and vendor evaluation (RFI/RFP), building scoring models, shaping PoV, and recommending tool selection across domains
• Steer end‑to‑end implementation delivery, ensuring scope, timeline, and control outcomes are met
• Manage senior stakeholders, facilitate decision workshops, and drive timely decisions via governance, options analysis, and explicit trade‑offs
• Own team performance and delivery quality and drive commercial outputs: proposals, scoping/estimation, and account expansion

• Solid foundation in consulting skills in external client‑facing consultancy.
• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels of an organisation, experience in managing and leading teams, developing and coaching junior members of staff.
• Hands‑on technical leadership delivering IAM solutions on at least one major vendor stack, with Cloud Identity depth (Microsoft Entra , Conditional Access, PIM, hybrid/multi‑cloud integration patterns), including SailPoint/Saviynt, Ping/Forge Rock/Okta/Transmit and Cyber Ark.

Impact high‑growth business across US, UK, and Europe and drive client satisfaction through shaping culture, enhancing value propositions, and fostering business development.

Nurture your growth under the Wavestone Horizon Framework - covering transparent and competitive compensation, clear salary policy, bespoke training, and definitive…