Senior Director, Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems

GSK; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Director of Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners for Enterprise Systems. This senior leadership role sets strategy, aligns cyber risk requirements with business needs, and leads a global team responsible for governance across ERP, HR, finance, and core platforms.

The role collaborates with the CISO and regulators, ensuring CAPAs and risk registers are maintained while driving risk-aware decision making across multiple geographies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in cyber risk, technology risk or information security governance.
• Working knowledge of risk assessment and risk register management.
• Practical experience with senior business stakeholder engagement.
• Extensive experience in cyber security at scale.
• Proven experience leading leaders of teams across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year strategy for Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems and secure the investment to deliver it.
• Drive a risk-accountable leadership culture and a cyber- and risk-savvy workforce culture in Enterprise Systems.
• Lead the Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems organisation, including leaders of teams, and own its capability plan.
• Own the budget, vendor portfolio and headcount plan for the capability.
• Represent the capability to the CISO, GSK Tech leadership, auditors and regulators.
• Own the cyber risk and compliance relationship for the assigned area, enterprise systems, including finance, HR and core corporate platforms.
• Identify, analyse and influence the management of cyber security risk across the assigned area.
• Hold operational areas, risk owners and suppliers to account against the Cyber Security Office strategy for the assigned area.
• Build and maintain the cyber risk register for the area, including risk statements, ratings, owners and treatment plans.
• Develop a deep understanding of Enterprise Systems business processes, including Planning, Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, Facilities and Real Estate, and technologies including ERP systems (SAP) and SaaS like Workday/Salesforce.

Skills

Cyber risk

Technology risk

Information security governance

Senior stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Risk register management

Budget & vendor portfolio

Leadership across geographies

Influencing & communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

NIST CS

Job description

Senior Director, Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose

The Senior Director, Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems will set direction for the Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems capability across GSK and lead the organisation that delivers it. This is a senior leadership role accountable for the capability across GSK. This role covers enterprise systems, including finance, HR and core corporate platforms.

About the team.

The Technology Risk and Compliance Business Partners are the face of the Cyber Security Office to GSK's business and technology areas. Each partner owns the cyber risk and compliance relationship for an assigned area, translating central strategy into what that area actually needs to do, and bringing its risk back into the Cyber Security Office.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Set the multi-year strategy for Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems and secure the investment to deliver it.
• Drive a risk-accountable leadership culture and a cyber- and risk-savvy workforce culture in Enterprise Systems.
• Lead the Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - Enterprise Systems organisation, including leaders of teams, and own its capability plan.
• Own the budget, vendor portfolio and headcount plan for the capability.
• Represent the capability to the CISO, GSK Tech leadership, auditors and regulators.
• Own the cyber risk and compliance relationship for the assigned area, enterprise systems, including finance, HR and core corporate platforms.
• Identify, analyse and influence the management of cyber security risk across the assigned area.
• Hold operational areas, risk owners and suppliers to account against the Cyber Security Office strategy for the assigned area.
• Build and maintain the cyber risk register for the area, including risk statements, ratings, owners and treatment plans.
• Develop a deep understanding of Enterprise Systems business processes, including Planning, Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, Facilities and Real Estate, and technologies including ERP systems (particularly SAP) and SaaS technologies including Workday and Salesforce, and guide Enterprise Systems leadership on how the changing technology, threat and regulatory landscapes affect their risk posture.
• Own the Risk & Compliance governance forum (RMCB) for the assigned area, ensuring priority actions, findings and CAPAs are tracked with clear accountabilities.
• Partner with Business Quality Assurance to ensure GxP validation of business-facing application systems and services within the assigned area.
• Provide oversight and coaching to the team on audit and inspection readiness, including hosting of external inspections and regulator/auditor engagements, and on the reporting of CAPA status.
• Provide oversight and coaching to the team on GxP software change management and system release governance for regulated applications within the assigned area.
• Influence across the Cyber Security Office and broader Digital and Tech organisation to identify and shape solutions for effective and efficient risk and compliance management.

Why you?

We are looking for professionals with the following required skills to achieve our goals:

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in cyber risk, technology risk or information security governance.
• Working knowledge of risk assessment and risk register management.
• Practical experience with senior business stakeholder engagement.
• Extensive experience in cyber security, including leading a global capability at scale.
• Proven experience leading leaders of teams across multiple geographies.
• Demonstrated ownership of a capability budget and vendor portfolio.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills at executive and board level.
• Experience with service definition and process improvement methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience acting as a business information security officer or embedded security partner.
• Working knowledge of NIST CS