Supplier Cyber Risk & Assurance Analyst

Job Purpose

Support the Supplier Cyber Risk and Assurance processes for all business units and support functions across GSK, to ensure cyber security risks that may be introduced by third-parties are understood, managed or mitigated

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive supplier cybersecurity assessments and generate detailed reports, ensuring alignment with up-to-date departmental procedures and industry best practices.

• Continuously develop and enhance the third-party risk management process framework for security risk, incorporating the latest standards, procedures, emerging technologies, and AI-driven insights.

• Review and analyse supplier security practices through questionnaires, audits, scans and assessments to ensure compliance with company cyber security standards.

• Coordinate and respond to security incidents involving suppliers, including investigation, mitigation, and reporting.

• Examine supplier contracts to ensure they include necessary security clauses and negotiate terms to address identified risks.

• Provide clear and effective support to internal third-party relationship owners and external third-party representatives, facilitating accurate responses to the security risk assessment questionnaire.

• Collaborate closely with Legal, Procurement teams to ensure the inclusion of robust security and privacy clauses in third-party contracts, in line with current regulatory and industry requirements.

• Accurately interpret third-party responses to assessment questionnaires, using AI and automation tools to translate them into concise and actionable risk exposure reports for internal stakeholders.

• Work with internal third-party relationship owners and external third-party representatives to recommend and implement effective cyber security controls to mitigate risks to GSK.

• Ensure robust tracking and remediation of third-party security and privacy risk exposures identified through assessment processes

• Deliver ongoing training and awareness programs related to the supplier cyber risk and assurance process, keeping pace with the latest industry trends and threats.

• Aggregate and distribute periodic program metrics and dashboards, leveraging advanced analytics and reporting tools.

• Provide expert consultancy and subject matter expertise (SME) support in conducting security posture assessments, as part of continuous monitoring or post-breach scenarios, ensuring that suppliers maintain robust and up-to-date security controls with the assistance of AI and automation technologies.

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required

• 8+ years of proven experience in cyber security and/or third party security risk management

General

• Experience and knowledge across different frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS etc.

• Demonstrated experience and understanding of cyber security principles, IT security controls, and related technologies and products

• Security Certification: Preferred Security Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CTPRA, CTPRP, CRISC, ISO27001: 2022 LA & LI, ISO42001 AI. Understanding of relevant regulations and compliance standards GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS etc

• Practical experience with third-party risk management tools such as Archer, OneTrust, Certa, CyberGRX, UpGuard, and ServiceNow is highly preferred.

• Sound knowledge in Power BI, Tableau, Excel advanced features.

• Prior experience in conducting cyber-Security risk assessments and 3rd party security and data privacy assessments. Ensuring 3rd parties adhere to data protection laws and best practices for safeguarding sensitive information.

• Strong analytical skills to identify, evaluate, and prioritize potential cyber risks from suppliers.

• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, tools, and technologies used to protect against threats.

• Proficiency in documenting cyber security findings, creating reports, and presenting recommendations to management.

• Preparedness to coordinate and respond to cyber security incidents involving suppliers.

• Expertise in reviewing and negotiating supplier contracts to ensure they include necessary security clauses.

• Stakeholder/ internal business management experience

• Strong verbal/written communication in English, with the ability to effectively interact with professionals at all levels of responsibility and authority

• Ability to prioritize, delegate, and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork

• Extensive experience in designing and developing security policies, processes, standards, and contracts.

• Strong understanding of inherent and residual risks, as well as expertise in risk assessment methodologies.

• Work with virtual teams located in different countries around the world, aligning and adapting different work, culture and communication styles.

• Exposure to any GRC technologies to conduct cyber risk management

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Experience in evaluating third parties for the presence of fundamental information security controls.

• Experience conducting risk assessments and applying concepts of inherent and residual risk in order to draw appropriate conclusions and articulate the same to non-technical audiences.

• Ability to effectively negotiate appropriate remediation of security gaps with third party representatives to ensure protection of GSK information.

Leadership

• Influencing action across various business lines and geographies to achieve program objectives.

• Ability to effectively manage conflicting priorities in alignment with overall business and departmental strategies.

• Developing strong relationships with leaders of complementary programs (e.g. Procurement, Legal, Ethics & Compliance) to ensure harmonization.

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Operates autonomously in the execution of the third-party security risk program framework.

• Serves as central point-of-contact for evaluating security risks associated with all third-party engagements.

• Recommends and agrees with Line Manager the need for shifts in program strategy.

Interaction

• Excellent project management skills to effectively balance unexpected and conflicting priorities as they arise

• Experience operating effectively across matrixed organizations

• Intercultural sensitivity

Innovation

• Understand innovations and evolving best practices amongst industry practitioners of third-party security risk management to continually mature GSK’s program.

• Ability to apply innovative approaches to balancing business constraints with program goals to identify win-win solutions.

Complexity

• Global SME role, but with coordination to the global third-party program.

• Operate across geographies and across business lines.

• Collaborate effectively with relevant third parties and managed service provider.

Inclusion at GSK

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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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).

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