Associate Director, Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - GSC & OT

Location: Bengaluru
Department: Security

The Associate Director, Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - GSC & OT will lead a defined area of the Technology Risk & Compliance Business Partners - GSC & OT capability and the team or programme that delivers it.

This is a leadership role accountable for a defined area of the capability, providing hands-on risk and compliance consulting and assurance to the teams actively deploying and owning technology across Global Supply Chain, both IT and OT.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a defined area of the capability, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
• Manage delivery against the capability roadmap and escalate blockers early.
• Develop team capability through coaching, review and structured feedback.
• Represent the area in CSO governance and cross-functional forums.
• Provide hands-on risk and compliance consulting and assurance to teams deploying and owning IT and OT technology across Global Supply Chain, representing both risk and compliance perspectives.
• Own the cyber risk and compliance relationship for the assigned area, Global Supply Chain and Operational Technology, including manufacturing and laboratory systems.
• Provide working-level SOX and GxP compliance advice to Supply Chain IT and OT teams, and support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections for the assigned area.
• Apply SDLC best practice and software quality principles to advise delivery teams on secure, compliant delivery.
• Provide advice on control design and assess control adequacy for Supply Chain IT and OT systems.
• 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 and user-experience 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.
• Develop and maintain a broad understanding of Global Supply Chain business processes, operating environment and associated technology, including ERP and integrated ecosystems, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Warehouse Management Systems, SCADA and industrial control systems.

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.
• Strong background securing IT and OT environments in regulated industries.
• 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, applied across manufacturing, distribution, quality laboratory and supply chain environments.
• Familiarity with common IT and OT architecture design patterns and specialist tooling used in Supply Chain environments.
• Broad understanding of, or readiness to develop understanding of, Global Supply Chain business processes, operating environment and associated technology.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory inspections.