Are you a seasoned leader with a background in process automation or cybersecurity, ready to step into a managerial role in a fast‑growing and highly impactful domain?

As a Manager in Industrial & OT Cybersecurity, you will lead teams, guide clients strategically, and help protect critical infrastructure and industrial production environments. This role offers the opportunity to drive innovation and make a tangible impact in one of the most rapidly evolving areas of cybersecurity.

What You Will Do

As a cybersecurity leader, you will accompany clients across multiple industries in securing their industrial control systems and production processes.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Client advisory & delivery leadership
  You support clients in industries such as Manufacturing & Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Pharmaceutical & Chemical, and Oil & Gas in securing their control systems and operational environments.

• Problem solving & solution development
  You identify, assess, and address complex cybersecurity challenges, developing solutions that require in‑depth analysis and evaluation of multiple technical and business factors.

• Domain expertise application
  Depending on your background and experience, you will focus on one or more cybersecurity domains, including:

  • Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)

  • Cloud and IIoT security

  • Threat detection and response

  • Network security

  • Vulnerability and patch management

• Team and engagement management
  You manage medium to large teams and/or workstreams, either at client sites or within Accenture, ensuring high‑quality delivery and team development.

• Security assessments & remediation
  You conduct security maturity assessments for industrial automation and control systems (IACS), develop security concepts and risk mitigation strategies for ICS and OT environments, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and internal policies.

• End‑to‑end client support
  You guide clients through remediation phases, from assessment and design through to implementation and transition into service readiness.

• Strategic OT cyber defense
  Clients rely on your expertise not only for IT/OT convergence initiatives (e.g. secure digital factories), but also for defining and executing long‑term OT cyber defense strategies.

• Sales & business development support
  You contribute to the sales process by preparing client presentations, proposals, and proofs of concept, helping shape compelling cybersecurity offerings.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience & education

  • Degree or equivalent in a technical field

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in process automation, industrial technology, and/or cybersecurity

• Leadership & autonomy

  • Ability to influence outcomes and work independently

  • Strong decision‑making capability, including the ability to design work plans and deliverables with limited supervision

• Analytical & problem‑solving skills

  • Proven experience identifying and resolving complex problems that require deep analysis and evaluation of variable factors

• Standards & regulatory knowledge

  • Knowledge of relevant industry frameworks, standards, and regulations such as:

    • IEC 62443

    • NAMUR

    • NIST SP 800‑82

    • BSI IT‑Grundschutz / KRITIS

    • ENISA / NERC CIP

• Certifications (nice to have)

  • GICSP, GRID

  • IEC 62443 (IC32–34, IC37)

  • CISSP, CISA, CISM, ITIL

• Industrial background

  • Background in industrial engineering and operational technology

  • Understanding of requirements and constraints in safety‑instrumented systems (SIS) is an advantage

• Collaboration & communication

  • Strong team player with excellent communication skills

  • Willingness to travel as required

• Language requirements

  • Fluent in English

  • Dutch language skills are highly preferred

  • Dutch‑speaking candidates will be given priority

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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