Project Manager, Information Security

About the role

The Project Manager, Information Security is a delivery-focused role responsible for planning and driving technical security projects across IQVIA's global Information Security organization. IQVIA is investing in new security platforms and capabilities to protect its global workforce, software development community and acquired businesses, and the role runs projects from initiation through closure, working with Security Architecture, Application Security, Cloud Security, Security Operations, IAM, IT infrastructure, networking, end-user computing, procurement and development teams.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and manage technical security projects end to end, defining scope, objectives, milestones, resourcing and success criteria with project sponsors and technical leads.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans and schedules, tracking dependencies across security, infrastructure, networking and application teams.
• Coordinate platform deployments and workforce rollouts, including pilot groups, phased waves, regional sequencing, rollback planning and go/no-go decisions.
• Lead change management for rollouts affecting end users, with communications, user guidance, training and service desk readiness.
• Maintain RAID logs, track budgets, purchase orders and vendor deliverables, and prepare steering committee and executive reports.
• Support projects for acquired businesses and coordinate data security initiatives such as data discovery and classification.
• Manage project work in Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow, capture lessons learned and contribute to reusable templates and standards.

Required profile

• 5-7 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years managing technical, infrastructure or IT projects in a global or matrixed organization.
• Proven track record of delivering projects end to end, with risk, issue and dependency management.
• Working knowledge of information security concepts such as application security, zero-trust access, cloud security and data protection.
• Experience coordinating deployments across multiple teams and managing enterprise rollouts, budgets and vendor coordination.
• Preferred: background in security projects, healthcare or life sciences, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business.

Required skills

• Jira and Confluence, and ServiceNow for project tracking and change management.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or Scrum/Agile certification preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management and written and verbal English.