Accenture

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Cyber Security Health Industry Lead

Posted Oct 29, 2026

Role at a glance

Job function
Software Engineering & IT Cybersecurity
Salary
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Location
Corp, Canada
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Experience
Minimum of 15 years of experience designing and delivering a broad range of security services for clients

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Role Summary

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This Senior Manager role in Accenture Security's health industry practice focuses on helping health industry clients mitigate cyber security risks through end-to-end security services. The role acts as a trusted security advisor to industry security and technology leaders and includes business development, large-scale solution delivery, and client proposal work.

What You'll Do

  • Advise industry security and technology leaders on end-to-end security solutions and innovations that protect their businesses
  • Help drive business development activities including origination, qualification, capture and relationship development
  • Develop, plan and lead large-scale solution delivery efforts for health clients across a broad range of security and privacy capabilities
  • Play a lead role in developing written and oral client proposals
  • Maintain relationships with key client stakeholders at VP and C-suite level
  • Assist in driving overall Health and Public Sector Security practice growth

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Qualifications

Senior security leader for health industry clients with at least 15 years of security services experience, deep health industry expertise, and a recognized security certification.

Required

  • Minimum of 15 years of experience designing and delivering a broad range of security services for clients
  • Deep health industry experience and subject matter expertise in business-aligned cyber strategy and security governance and technology...
  • Thorough understanding of end-to-end cyber security programs
  • Experience leading interactions and developing relationships with senior security and technology executives and senior management
  • Strong people management skills
  • Industry recognized Professional Security certification (CISSP/CISM)
  • Ability to lead and manage dynamic multi-region teams
  • Must be fluently bilingual in English and French if located in Montreal

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • Experience working for one of the large consulting firms
  • Experience leading the business development and sales capture process with extensive leadership contacts
  • Knowledge of security vendors and security product capabilities

Original job description

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We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.


You Are

Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.


Job Description

Our security practice is currently looking for a Senior Manager to focus on helping our health industry clients mitigate cyber security risks using our range of end-to-end security services.

• As the trusted security advisory for industry security and technology leaders, support their security mandates to protect their businesses through end-to-end security solutions and innovations.

• Help drive business development activities including origination, qualification, capture and relationship development

• Develop, plan and lead large-scale solution delivery efforts for health clients across a broad range of security and privacy capabilities and requirements

• Play a lead role in developing written and oral client proposals

• Maintain relationships with key client stakeholders at VP and C-suite level

• Assist in driving overall Health and Public Sector Security practice growth

• Deep health industry experience and subject matter expertise in business-aligned cyber strategy development and execution of security governance and technology risk programmes (such as, but not limited to: risk management, supplier cyber risk management, security operating models, transformation programs…)

• Minimum of 15 years of experience designing and delivering a broad range of security services for clients

• Thorough understanding of end-to-end cyber security programs and assisting organizations tackle the multi-dimensional aspects of cyber risk

• Experience leading interactions and developing relationships with senior security and technology executives and senior management

• Strong people management skills and passion to attract, grow and retain talent

• Industry recognized Professional Security certification (CISSP/CISM)

• Ability to lead and manage dynamic multi-region teams

• Must be fluently bilingual in English and French if located in Montreal


Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher

• Experience working for one of the large consulting firms

• Experience leading the business development and sales capture process with extensive leadership contacts

• Knowledge of security vendors and security product capabilities


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.


Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $131,700 to $278,100

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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Accenture is a global professional services company that specializes in providing consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. With a diverse range of industries served, including financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications, Accenture leverages advanced technologies and data analytics to help organizations improve their performance and drive innovation. Committed to sustainable progress, the company emphasizes its dedication to inclusivity, digital transformation, and building a more sustainable future for its clients and communities. With a presence in over 120 countries, Accenture is known for its expertise in integrating cutting-edge solutions that address complex business challenges.