Principal - Cyber Resilience & External Affairs

14260 GSK India Global Services Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Principal, Cyber Resilience & External Affairs to support cyber resilience workstreams and develop subject matter expertise. This hands-on analytical role involves coordinating resilience plans, crisis exercises, and regulatory engagement across GSK's markets.

The role requires strong knowledge of ISO 22301 and NIST CSF, experience in crisis management, and excellent communication with stakeholders at executive levels.

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber resilience, business continuity or crisis management.
• Practical experience with external and regulatory engagement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support assigned workstreams from scoping and planning through execution and reporting.
• Build deep subject matter expertise in cyber resilience and crisis management and act as a trusted point of contact for stakeholders across GSK's markets and functions.
• Collaborate with colleagues and support peer review of technical or analytical work.
• Maintain and improve cyber resilience and recovery plans aligned to ISO 22301 and NIST CSF.
• Design and facilitate cyber crisis exercises and tabletop simulations and capture lessons learned.

Skills

Cyber Resilience

Crisis Management

Regulatory Engagement

ISO 22301

NIST CSF

Exercise Design

Stakeholder Communication

Project Management

Information Security

Security Architecture Design

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

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 Principal, Cyber Resilience & External Affairs will support workstreams within Cyber Resilience & External Affairs and develop subject matter expertise for the capability. This is a hands‑on analytical role within the team.

About the team

Cyber Resilience and External Affairs ensures GSK is prepared to respond to and recover from cyber incidents that breach existing defenses. The team owns cyber resilience planning, crisis exercising and recovery readiness, and manages GSK's cyber engagement with regulators, industry bodies and external partners.

Key responsibilities

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

• Support assigned workstreams from scoping and planning through execution and reporting, ensuring milestones and dependencies are tracked.
• Build deep subject matter expertise in cyber resilience and crisis management and act as a trusted point of contact for stakeholders across GSK's markets and functions.
• Collaborate with colleagues and support peer review of technical or analytical work.
• Maintain and continuously improve cyber resilience and recovery plans for GSK's critical business services, aligned to recognized frameworks such as ISO 22301 and NIST CSF.
• Design and help facilitate cyber crisis exercises and tabletop simulations for technical and business audiences, and capture lessons learned to strengthen future response.
• Track resilience posture against recovery objectives and identify gaps for remediation.
• Support cyber crisis response as part of the response team, coordinating actions, drafting stakeholder communications, and tracking response against the crisis management plan.
• Support GSK's engagement with regulators, industry bodies and information‑sharing communities, including preparing briefing materials and tracking commitments arising from these engagements.
• Track and interpret cyber regulatory developments relevant to GSK and its markets and assess their impact on GSK's programs.
• Coordinate cyber input to external reporting and disclosure obligations, working with Legal and Communications to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Support the annual cyber insurance renewal process, including compiling underwriting information and evidencing GSK's resilience and control posture to insurers and brokers.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in cyber resilience, business continuity or crisis management.
• Working knowledge of exercise design and facilitation.
• Practical experience with external and regulatory engagement.
• Strong practical experience in the relevant cyber security domain.
• Experience contributing to workstreams and delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Ability to develop subject matter expertise and support stakeholders confidently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of ISO 22301 and operational resilience regulation.
• Experience supporting and facilitating crisis exercises at executive level.
• Experience with regulatory engagement or industry body participation.
• Experience in a regulated industry.
• Relevant certification such as CBCP, MBCI, CISM, CISSP.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.

Typical tools and technologies

Resilience and continuity planning tooling, exercise platforms, GRC platforms.

Key Skills

• AI for Cybersecurity
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Cloud Security
• Crisis Management
• Cyber Resilience
• Cybersecurity
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Exercise Design
• Exercise Planning
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Information Security
• Infrastructure Security
• ML Security
• Project Management
• Security Architecture Design
• Security Planning
• Security Risk
• Security Technologies
• 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.

Inclusion at GSK

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at [e-mail] to discuss your needs.