Senior Manager, Site Risk

GSK; Irvine; Hybride; GBP 95 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

GSK in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Manager, Site Risk to lead risk monitoring, indexing and automation across IT and OT in R&D labs, manufacturing plants and laboratories. The role combines hands-on work with leadership of a team and stakeholder management to provide continuous visibility into assets, threats and control effectiveness.

The candidate will own the Site Cyber Risk Index, develop risk indicators, and partner with Technology Risk and Compliance to enable informed decisions

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant discipline or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in technology or OT risk in an operational site context.
• Working knowledge of site or plant risk assessment.
• Experience with stakeholder engagement with site and engineering leadership.
• Strong background in network security, OT security and regulated environments.
• Experience building or operating continuous control monitoring, risk indices or KPI models.
• Experience partnering with penetration testing, red team or architecture review functions.
• Significant experience in cyber security within the relevant domain.
• Proven experience leading a team or programme of work.
• Experience delivering to plan, quality and timelines.

Responsabilités

• Lead a defined area of the capability, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
• Develop team capability through coaching, review and structured feedback.
• Represent the area in CSO governance and cross-functional forums.
• Build and maintain understanding of assets, threat intelligence, risks and controls across IT and OT.
• Build and run continuous control monitoring across sites to provide ongoing visibility into control operating effectiveness.
• Own and govern the Site Cyber Risk Index model, ensuring it reflects site risk posture and actionable guidance.
• Build out KPIs and automation to drive remediation at sites.
• Partner with business partnering teams to provide data and tooling to engage site leadership.
• Perform ad hoc risk assessments across sites as needed.
• Engage cyber defence, architecture and solutions teams for services like pen testing and reviews.
• Partner with OT engineering teams to understand operating environments.
• Collaborate with Risk Intelligence and Decision Support on data gathering and visualization.

Connaissances

Site risk

Cybersecurity

Stakeholder engagement

Risk indices

Penetration testing

Data visualization

Automation

Formation

Degree in a relevant discipline

Outils

Power BI

ServiceNow

GRC tooling

Description du poste

Job Purpose

Senior Manager, Site Risk leads the site and OT risk monitoring, indexing and automation capability that supports GSK's business‑facing Technology Risk and Compliance teams across R&D labs and Supply Chain sites, providing continuous visibility into the assets, threats, risks and control effectiveness operating in those environments. This is a delivery leadership role combining hands‑on work with team and stakeholder management.

About the team

Site Risk provides the continuous monitoring, risk indexing and automation that GSK's business‑facing Technology Risk and Compliance teams rely on to understand and manage cyber exposure at GSK's physical sites: the manufacturing plants, laboratories and R&D campuses where IT and operational technology meet. This position builds the risk intelligence, data and visibility that enables risk and compliance conversations with site leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a defined area of the capability, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
• Develop team capability through coaching, review and structured feedback.
• Represent the area in CSO governance and cross‑functional forums.
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of the assets, threat intelligence, risks and controls operating across R&D labs and Supply Chain sites, spanning both IT and OT.
• Build and run continuous control monitoring across sites to provide ongoing visibility into control operating effectiveness across IT and OT, synthesizing asset understanding and threat intelligence to provide a holistic and continuous view of risk.
• Own and govern the Site Cyber Risk Index model, ensuring it accurately reflects site risk posture, is trusted by stakeholders and clearly recommends prioritized actions.
• Build out key risk and performance indicators, and automation, to help business‑facing Technology Risk and Compliance teams drive and track action and remediation at their sites.
• Partner with the business partnering teams who own the site risk and compliance relationship, providing them with the data, indices and tooling they need to engage site leadership effectively.
• Perform ad hoc risk assessments across sites as needed.
• Engage cyber defence and cyber architecture and solutions teams to commission services such as penetration testing and detailed architectural reviews.
• Partner with OT engineering teams to understand the operating environment of the technology being assessed.
• Partner with the Risk Intelligence and Decision Support team on gathering and visualising site risk data.
• Track site remediation through to closure and elevate where sites do not act.

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 technology or OT risk in an operational site context.
• Working knowledge of site or plant risk assessment.
• Practical experience with stakeholder engagement with site and engineering leadership.
• Strong background in network security, OT security and operating in regulated environments.
• Experience building or operating continuous control monitoring, risk indices or key risk/performance indicator models.
• Experience partnering with penetration testing, red team or architecture review functions to assess control effectiveness.
• Significant experience in cyber security within the relevant domain.
• Proven experience leading a team or a substantial programme of work.
• Experience managing delivery to plan, quality and timelines.
• Excellent relationship management, influencing and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with IEC 62443 and OT security in manufacturing or laboratory settings.
• Working knowledge of NIST CSF and ISO 27001.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or another regulated manufacturing industry.
• Willingness to travel to sites as required.
• Relevant certification such as CRISC, CISM, CISSP, GICSP.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience partnering with data or analytics teams to build dashboards, indices and visualisations of risk data.

Closing Date: 6th November 2026

Working Pattern

This role is based in the United Kingdom and offers a hybrid working model, with 2/3 days a week onsite at our central London HQ.

Skills

• Automation
• Cloud Security
• Cybersecurity
• Data Integrity
• Executive Reports
• Governance Risk Compliance (GRC)
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• IT Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
• Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (PBI)
• Risk Assessments
• Risk Management
• Risk Management Framework
• Security Architecture Design
• Security Compliance
• Security Policies
• Security Risk
• ServiceNow Platform
• Third Party Risk Management
• Vulnerability Management
• Web Application Security

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines.We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most.Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at [e-mail] where you can also request a call.Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels.

We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive.Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be.A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included.Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing.So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together. Find out more on our career site.