safety and defense manager

As a Manager for Safety & Defence, you will play a key leadership role in strengthening and expanding NTT DATA’s cyber defence capabilities across safety, defence, and institutional environments. You will shape and deliver cyber defence strategy, advisory, readiness, and transformation programmes for major clients, with particular focus on defence-sector stakeholders and European-aligned initiatives.

This role combines operational cyber defence expertise with experience in defence institutions, public-sector programmes, and senior stakeholder engagement, including environments such as national defence authorities, EU-funded defence programmes, or equivalent security institutions.

Your role:

• Lead and grow NTT DATA’s Safety & Defense business in Greece and Benelux by identifying, shaping, and closing opportunities with existing and prospective clients.

• Shape cyber defence strategies, capability roadmaps, operating models, and transformation programmes for defence, government, critical infrastructure, and institutional clients.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating cyber threats, operational risks, and defense-sector requirements into clear, actionable decisions.

• Coordinate cyber defence readiness activities, including threat monitoring, incident response planning, escalation models, resilience exercises, simulations, and lessons-learned processes.

• Contribute to proposals, tenders, pre-sales activities, and programme shaping for complex cyber defence and security transformation opportunities.

Your profile:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Defence Studies, Security Studies, or equivalent professional experience.

• 8-12 years of experience in cyber defence, cyber operations, or security consulting, ideally with leadership responsibility.

• Proven experience in cyber defence programmes or initiatives involving national defence authorities, EU institutions, international organizations, or equivalent defence/security environments.

• Strong understanding of the cyber threat landscape affecting defence, government, critical infrastructure, and mission-critical operational environments.

• Experience leading cybersecurity programmes, cyber defence teams, senior client engagements, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.

• Strong commercial mindset, with experience in business development, pre-sales, proposal development, and client relationship management.

• Relevant cybersecurity certifications preferred, such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CIPP/E, OSCP, GIAC certifications, or equivalent defence/security credentials.

• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive-level presentation skills.

• Fluent in English, written and spoken.