We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover across the full security lifecycle. We combine deep industry expertise, global delivery scale, advanced technologies, and intelligence-led services to help clients build resilient, adaptive, and scalable cyber capabilities.

Our Cyber Resilience and Defense practice helps organizations understand and reduce cyber exposure before it becomes business impact. The Cyber Exposure, Testing & Intelligence portfolio brings together Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), vulnerability management, offensive security, adversary simulation, proactive cyber intelligence, and artificial intelligence to identify risk, validate defenses, prioritize remediation, and strengthen resilience.

You Are

A growth-oriented cybersecurity leader with deep experience helping organizations identify, prioritize, and reduce cyber exposure. You bring a strong understanding of CTEM, vulnerability management, offensive security, threat intelligence, and the practical application of artificial intelligence to improve security outcomes. You have a proven record of shaping client demand into qualified opportunities, leading strategic pursuits, building repeatable offerings, and overseeing complex client delivery.

You are comfortable operating at the intersection of market development, solution leadership, delivery oversight, and people leadership. You can engage credibly with C-suite and senior security stakeholders, translate business and technical needs into differentiated solutions, and mobilize multidisciplinary teams across industries and regions.

Job Description

This is a key Senior Manager role within Accenture’s Cyber Resilience and Defense practice.



The role will lead growth across the Cyber Exposure, Testing & Intelligence portfolio in the Canadian market, with primary emphasis on converting CTEM and vulnerability management demand into qualified pipeline, strategic pursuits, and repeatable offerings spanning exposure management, security testing, adversary simulation, and proactive cyber intelligence.

The Senior Manager will also oversee client delivery, strengthen alliance relationships, develop market-facing assets and thought leadership, and build high-performing teams. The role will work across industries and collaborate with Accenture’s broader cyber, technology, industry, and managed services practices to bring integrated solutions to clients.

Core Responsibilities

Growth, Market & Offering Leadership

- Drive business development across the Canadian market—from origination and qualification through solution shaping, strategic pursuits, proposals, and capture—converting demand for CTEM, vulnerability management, offensive security, threat intelligence, and AI-enabled security into qualified pipeline.
- Build trusted relationships with CISOs, security executives, technology leaders, and other senior client stakeholders across industries.
- Develop and scale repeatable offerings, methods, assets, accelerators, and commercial models, while leading alliance and joint go-to-market activity with key technology providers.




- Collaborate across Accenture service areas, industries, and geographies to connect Cyber Exposure, testing & Intelligence services with broader cyber transformation, SOC, managed security, cloud, and technology programs.

Client Delivery & Advisory

- Oversee complex client engagements across exposure management, vulnerability management, security testing, adversary simulation, and cyber intelligence, serving as a trusted advisor and escalation point while supporting timely issue resolution.
- Translate client business, risk, and technical requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, operating models, scalable solutions, and actionable recommendations aligned to client priorities.
- Apply experience in SOC operations to connect proactive exposure reduction with detection, response, and operational security processes.

People & Practice Leadership

- Recruit, lead, coach, and retain multidisciplinary teams across consulting, security testing, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, and related technical disciplines.
- Develop practitioners through mentoring, performance leadership, career guidance, and hands‑on support during pursuits and delivery.

Basic Qualifications

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, including leadership responsibility in consulting, professional services, managed security services, or a comparable client‑facing setting.
- Demonstrated experience in CTEM, vulnerability management, offensive security, security testing, adversary simulation, threat intelligence, AI‑enabled security capabilities, or closely related cyber‑disciplines.
- Experience overseeing complex cybersecurity engagements

📌 Senior Manager – Cyber Exposure, Testing (Ottawa)
🏢 Nextgig
📍 Ottawa