Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager

at  Nissan

WHO WE ARE

Nissan has one of the most comprehensive European presences of any overseas manufacturer, employing more than 17,000 staff across locally-based Design, Research & Development, Manufacturing, Logistics, Purchasing and Sales & Marketing operations.
Our Cranfield facility, European Technical Centre (NTCE), serves as the head office for Nissan’s Research & Development operations in Europe. We think you’ll like working with us because of our valued culture; we pride ourselves on being a transparent, cross-cultural and high-reaching, business.
We are an aspiring organisation, and we are looking for equally bold and creative Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager to join our dynamic and growing Connected Car team.

As a Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager, you will develop a deep working knowledge of the features that make up Nissans Connected Car offering and use this to:

• Lead the coordination and schedule alignment with all relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with UN-R155
• Lead progress reports on Cybersecurity topics at management meeting and vehicle milestone meetings.
• Understanding the capability required for the future and coordinating on the number of people needed to build the team.
• Lead regular communication and coordination with Legal and Compliance teams.
• Lead the activity of hearing and communicating from suppliers for information required for Cybersecurity.
• Lead in resolving issues related to Cybersecurity.
• Lead to request Cybersecurity requirements at the right time during system development.
• Keep up to date with the latest trends and features in iOS, Android and Cloud and consider their impact on Cybersecurity
• Establish the process of Cybersecurity implementation plan
• Manage the cybersecurity team that reports directly to him/her.
• Participates in investigations relating to regulations and legislation, and in opinion-exchange meetings with other OEMs and others

The Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager will have the following skills or experience:

• Experience in developing and/or maintaining IT systems such as Azure essential
• Experience negotiating with certification authorities
• Understanding of UN-R155, ISO21434 and ability to articulate the standard within the business
• Proactive approach to identifying and exploring vulnerabilities, operational risk impacting Nissan digital assets
• Be able to project manage and discuss with cybersecurity engineers
• Demonstrable project management and organisational skills, understanding of Agile and Waterfall software development PMP or Prince2 is a plus
• Cybersecurity knowledge essential
• Understanding of process, CISSP or equivalent is desirable
• Be degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• Competent with tools such as: Jira and Confluence
• Competent with PC applications including Microsoft excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Be self-motivating, self-managing and pro-active.
• Be able to travel abroad, typically a few days to 2 weeks, but on rare occasions travel may be long distance and or, at short notice.
• Fluent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Valid UK/European driving licence is essentia

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager to be based at Nissan Technical Centre Europe, Cranfield to manage all aspects of Connected Car Cybersecurity for our AMIEO region vehicles.

MAIN TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager, you will develop a deep working knowledge of the features that make up Nissans Connected Car offering and use this to:

• Lead the coordination and schedule alignment with all relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with UN-R155
• Lead progress reports on Cybersecurity topics at management meeting and vehicle milestone meetings.
• Understanding the capability required for the future and coordinating on the number of people needed to build the team.
• Lead regular communication and coordination with Legal and Compliance teams.
• Lead the activity of hearing and communicating from suppliers for information required for Cybersecurity.
• Lead in resolving issues related to Cybersecurity.
• Lead to request Cybersecurity requirements at the right time during system development.
• Keep up to date with the latest trends and features in iOS, Android and Cloud and consider their impact on Cybersecurity
• Establish the process of Cybersecurity implementation plan
• Manage the cybersecurity team that reports directly to him/her.
• Participates in investigations relating to regulations and legislation, and in opinion-exchange meetings with other OEMs and others.

The Connected Car Cybersecurity Project Manager will have the following skills or experience:

• Experience in developing and/or maintaining IT systems such as Azure essential
• Experience negotiating with certification authorities
• Understanding of UN-R155, ISO21434 and ability to articulate the standard within the business
• Proactive approach to identifying and exploring vulnerabilities, operational risk impacting Nissan digital assets
• Be able to project manage and discuss with cybersecurity engineers
• Demonstrable project management and organisational skills, understanding of Agile and Waterfall software development PMP or Prince2 is a plus
• Cybersecurity knowledge essential
• Understanding of process, CISSP or equivalent is desirable
• Be degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• Competent with tools such as: Jira and Confluence
• Competent with PC applications including Microsoft excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Be self-motivating, self-managing and pro-active.
• Be able to travel abroad, typically a few days to 2 weeks, but on rare occasions travel may be long distance and or, at short notice.
• Fluent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Valid UK/European driving licence is essential