Principal - Cyber Resilience & External Affairs

Job Summary

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 GSKs cyber engagement with regulators, industry bodies and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 GSKs 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 GSKs 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 GSKs 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 GSKs 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 GSKs 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.

Skills

• Cyber Resilience
• Crisis Management
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Exercise Design
• Exercise Planning
• Information Security
• Security Architecture Design
• Identity Access Management (IAM)

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