Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance Business Partners R&D

Senior Manager, 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 Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance Business Partners R&D will lead a defined area of the Risk & Compliance Business Partners R&D capability and the team or programme that delivers it. This is a delivery leadership role combining hands-on work with team and stakeholder management, providing hands-on risk and compliance consulting and assurance to R&D teams deploying and owning technology, based at the Ware, UK or London, UK Global Headquarters sites. This role covers GSK Research and Development, including clinical, discovery and regulatory technology.
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:
Lead the R&D risk and compliance business partnering team at the Ware and London Global Headquarters sites, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
Manage delivery against the R&D risk and compliance roadmap, escalating blockers to the Director, R&D Business Partners early.
Develop team capability in R&D-specific risk and compliance consulting through coaching, review and structured feedback.
Represent R&D risk and compliance interests in CSO governance forums and in R&D's own cross-functional governance structures, including Quality and GxP forums.
Provide hands-on risk and compliance consulting and assurance to R&D teams deploying and owning technology, representing both risk and compliance perspectives.
Own the cyber risk and compliance relationship for the assigned area, GSK Research and Development, including clinical, discovery and regulatory technology.
Develop a working understanding of R&D business processes and priorities at the Ware and London Global Headquarters sites, and advise local R&D teams on how changing technology, threat and regulatory landscapes affect their risk posture.
Support the Risk & Compliance governance forum (RMCB) for the assigned area, helping track priority actions, findings and CAPAs.
Partner with Business Quality Assurance to support GxP validation of business-facing application systems and services within the assigned area.
Support audit and inspection readiness activities, including evidence preparation and coordination for external inspections and regulator/auditor engagements.
Support GxP software change management and system release governance for regulated applications within the assigned area.
Identify, analyse and influence the management of cyber security risk across the assigned area, communicating risk clearly to manager and director-level audiences and balancing risk with operational considerations.
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.
Embed security requirements and controls at the start of initiatives rather than retrofitting them before go-live, bringing in specialist consults on tooling and architecture design patterns from across the team as needed.
Facilitate risk assessments for new initiatives, systems and third parties in the assigned area.
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.
Practical experience securing IT systems and applications in a regulated environment.
Working familiarity with SOX and GxP compliance requirements.
Working knowledge of SDLC best practices and software quality principles.
Working knowledge of control frameworks, with the ability to advise on and assess control design.
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:
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.
Experience supporting audits and regulatory inspections.
Broad understanding of, or readiness to develop understanding of, R&D business processes, operating environment and associated technology.
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.
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