Vice President Cyber Security Architecture & Product Management

At GSK we use Tech to advance science and accelerate how we develop and deliver medicines and vaccines to positively impact the health of people at scale. We integrate tech across the company accelerate pipeline innovation and drive our performance, always as a trusted and capable partner in the use of data tech to improve health.

For the benefit of patients, our people and shareholders, we stay agile and curious, are always responsible, and are collaborative: partnering with academia, biotech and tech industries to work with the latest advances and expertise in tech so we reap the benefits of its transformative effect on our business.

As Vice President, Cyber Security Architecture & Product Management, you will lead a team responsible for identifying, designing, developing, and maintaining GSK's enterprise cyber security architecture, ensuring it is aligned with business goals, while setting the threat-led product vision and direction for the Information Technology (IT)/Operational Technology (OT) product teams including monitoring and assessment of competitive and emerging solutions. You will play a crucial role in defining security solutions to safeguard our critical IT and OT infrastructure within the manufacturing and R&D areas, balancing security, user experience and productivity through a risk-based approach.

Reporting to the CISO, this role will engage and form alignment with affiliated senior professionals in Tech and across areas of the business including R&D and Global Supply Chain, Global Functions and Commercial. You will manage very senior stakeholders across these businesses, while demonstrating a balanced and pragmatic approach to security.

Responsibilities:

• Setting the enterprise cyber security architecture, product vision, and direction for the IT/OT product teams including monitoring and assessment of competitive solutions
• Development of business cases for new investments required to meet evolving IT/OT threats
• Collaboration with the Cyber Defense (Security Operations) and engineering teams to define the product roadmap, improve tool rationalisation and optimisation across IT and OT while embedding continuous improvement feedback from our advanced threat team to continuously improve monitoring and response capabilities
• Leverage AI / ML and emerging capabilities from suppliers to defend from the increasing velocity and sophistication of attacks, such as vishing, smishing, deepfakes, etc. You and your team will help us stay ahead of these emerging threats, including Post Quantum Cryptography, etc.
• You and your team will also secure our internal innovation and AI capabilities, leveraging frameworks like OWASP Top 10 LLM and NIST, Mitre Att&ck, etc.
• Work with counterparts in the business to safeguard industrial control systems from being accessed and exploited by unauthorised users
• Secure R&D innovation and Smart Manufacturing, and create readiness plans to react to opportunities and consequences of emerging technologies (quantum, AI, graph technologies, etc.)
• Deliver on commitments towards IT/OT agility improvements for manufacturing
• Integrate a deep understanding of manufacturing business requirements on the horizon into executable plans and embed this into the culture of the organisation
• Provide technical IT/OT thought leadership within the Cyber Security organisation, across tech and in the external cyber ecosystem through established relationships with CISOS, CTOs, universities, and relevant government cyber and law enforcement agencies
• Provide leadership, direction and development of a multi-disciplined function comprised of approximately 60 staff across the US, UK, Poland and India, including architects, product managers and OT cyber security specialists including Director and Senior Director level staff in a matrixed, virtual environment

Basic qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• 10+ years of experience in IT and Operational Technology (OT)
• Experience of legal and/or regulatory matters in the context of enterprise IT and OT security
• 10+ years of experience in secure architecture and design
• 10+ years of experience in firewalls, network security and OT security and protocols
• Experience of security technology including, but not limited to IAM, end point, cloud, SIEM and industrial technologies
• Experience of enterprise architecture and security frameworks like TOGAF, NIST, CIS, etc.
• CISSP certified
• OT/ICS Certified Security Professional

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years experience in IT and/or OT in global pharma and/or a life sciences company
• Strong written and verbal communications skills and proven experience in conveying a vision to highly technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and board levels
• Ability to work across boundaries, both organisationally and geographically
• Strategic Vendor Management experience
• Strategy Formulation experience with a global perspective

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is 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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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.

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