Program Manager IV

Program Manager IV

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Program Manager IV for a Remote !

Position Title: Program Manager IV

Location: Remote

Anticipated Start Date: 09/26/2025

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 06 Months

Job Type: Contract - [FULL TIME (40 Hours a week)]

Pay Range: $80.00/hr-$85.00/hr

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate existing and future problem spaces through a comprehensive Client lens, auditing similar problems in multiple places, to ensure Security solution development is universal and deduplicated.
• Build playbooks and process channels to help security scale across Client and the multiple ever-expanding dimensions with minimal friction for partner teams.
• Connect dots by understanding/auditing where people are solving the similar problems in multiple different places and deduping.
• Drive standardized frameworks for identifying and closing gaps for new products, regulation, external audits and compliance, third parties, internal tools, etc.
• Develop Client-wide playbooks for steady state delivery of security services, including operational measurement.
• Scale playbooks by constantly driving efficiencies (e.g. reduce overhead, increase speed to execute, automate).
• Responsible for managing multiple Security portfolios and workstreams using Agile best practices. This includes planning, coordinating with cross-functional teams, tracking status and reporting, communicating to the project team and key stakeholders, and creating the appropriate documentation.
• Lead vendor selection, manage vendor performance, and enforce contractual obligations to ensure high quality, consistent delivery.
• Build close relationships with other highly cross-functional teams within Client including, but not limited to Legal, Communications, Finance, Sourcing & Procurement, and Engineering.
• Demonstrate subject matter experience of understanding of the supported domain, design measurement methodology, and conduct through analysis of the problem space.
• Select appropriate security metrics to measure the success of the portfolio and analyze data to identify trends and patterns.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Cybersecurity certifications, e.g., Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Product Development related project management certifications, e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Experience understanding proprietary in-house built systems, information security, corporate systems (e.g., ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday), and driving complex projects with process and technology changes.
• Experience managing projects related to cybersecurity and information security operations, including projects on improving and demonstrating the maturity of repeatable operations (i.e. compliance issue remediation, process maturity enhancements, developing runbooks to run repeatable processes , etc.)
• Track record of building cybersecurity / information security programs that stand up to rigor of external legal and regulatory compliance with eye toward developing efficiencies (e.g. reduced overhead, increased speed to execute, automation features, etc).

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• 8 to 10 years -
• certifies information security
• delivery manager
• cyber security and or risk
• stakeholder management

Good to have skills:

• Technicality- experience managing technical projects
• risk and governance (cyber security preferred)
• an engineer plus 5 + years of experience would work, but not just an engineer
• 3rd party security and identity and access management
• big tech or financial background

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 243586 when responding to this ad.

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