Director Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - R&D

Director Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - R&D

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 Director Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners – R&D is a leadership role accountable being the primary point of contact for Technology Risk and Compliance across the R&D business unit and with particular focus on the Cambridge, UK and Ware, UK sites.

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:

• Contribute to the multi-year strategy for Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners – R&D, translating it into delivery plans for the Cambridge and Ware sites.

• Drive a risk-accountable leadership culture and a cyber- and risk-savvy workforce culture across the Cambridge and Ware sites.

• Lead and develop the team supporting the assigned area, setting priorities and managing performance.

• Report capability performance and risk to CSO leadership and governance forums.

• Own the cyber risk and compliance relationship for the assigned area, R&D with particular focus on the Cambridge and Ware sites, including clinical, discovery and regulatory technology.

• Develop a deep understanding of Research and Development business processes and strategic business priorities at the Cambridge and Ware sites, and guide local R&D leadership on how the changing technology, threat and regulatory landscapes affect their risk posture.

• 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.

• 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.

• Facilitate Risk & Compliance governance (RMCB) activities 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.

• Embed security requirements and controls at the start of initiatives rather than retrofitting them before go-live.

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.

• Substantial experience in cyber security, including end-to-end ownership of a capability.

• Proven experience leading and developing technical or specialist teams.

• Experience managing suppliers and delivery commitments.

• Strong influencing and communication skills with senior stakeholders.

• 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 CSF, ISO 27001 and ISO 22301.

• Experience with GRC platforms such as ServiceNow.

• Experience in pharmaceutical or another regulated industry, including GxP and SOX contexts.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.

• Relevant certification such as CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.

• Understanding of Operational Technology (OT) security concepts, ideally applied to a laboratory setting.

Ready to apply?
Join GSK and help us make a real difference in improving health worldwide. Apply today. We look forward to hearing from you. (Please take a personal copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available online post closure of the advert)

 

Closing Date:  6th November 2026

Work Location:
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.

 

 

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Skills

Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Data Integrity, Executive Reports, Identity Access Management (IAM), Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Risk Management Framework, Security Architecture Design, Security Compliance, Security Policies, Security Risk, 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.

 

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