Principal, Cyber Resilience & External Affairs

Location: Bengaluru
Department: Security

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.

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 GSK's 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 GSK's 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 GSK's 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 GSK's 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 GSK's 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 GSK's 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.