Senior Director, Risk Automation & Intelligence

Business IntroductionGSK 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.Position Summary The Senior Director, Risk Automation & Intelligence leads the strategy and execution of the data, analytics and automation capabilities that the rest of the Technology Risk and Compliance function relies on to manage risk and demonstrate compliance effectively and efficiently. This is a senior leadership role accountable for the capability across GSK, spanning policy, process, automation and tooling, training and end-user experience for Technology Risk and Compliance capabilities and services. About the team. Risk Automation and Intelligence is the engine room of the Risk and Compliance function's data and automation, operating as GSK's Risk Operations Centre. The team builds future-ready analytics, automation and intelligence that enable GSK to manage technology risk and compliance proactively and at scale. Key responsibilities: This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following: 1. Set the enterprise vision and multi-year strategy for the data, analytics and automation capabilities that underpin Technology Risk and Compliance at GSK, and secure the investment to deliver it. 2. Lead the Risk Automation & Intelligence organisation, including leaders of teams, and own its capability plan. 3. Own the budget, vendor portfolio and headcount plan for the capability. 4. Represent the capability to the CISO, GSK Tech leadership, auditors and regulators. 5. Own GSK's Cyber Security Policies, ensuring they remain current, practical and aligned with the evolving threat, technology and regulatory landscape. 6. Own the Technology Risk and Compliance processes used across GSK, ensuring they are well-designed, consistently applied and continuously improved. 7. Own the integration between Technology Risk and Compliance and GSK's Enterprise Risk Programme, ensuring technology risk is represented accurately and consistently in enterprise risk reporting and governance. 8. Operate and evolve GSK's Risk Operations Centre model, bringing modern Risk Operations Centre concepts, continuous controls monitoring and quantitative risk analysis into how GSK manages technology risk and compliance. 9. Bring product management rigour to the roadmap for risk and compliance tooling, translating the needs of stakeholders at Director, VP and SVP level into prioritised features and releases. 10. Build and lead the capability that automates risk, control and compliance processes, including AI and intelligent automation, to replace manual effort with proactive, at-scale risk management. 11. Develop risk analytics, models and quantitative risk methods that help the business identify, evaluate and treat cyber risk, and that support prioritisation and inform resource and investment decisions for leadership, ExCom and the Board. 12. Develop performance analytics that measure the effectiveness and operational efficiency of the Technology Risk and Compliance programme itself, driving continuous improvement. 13. Own the data platform and pipelines underpinning risk intelligence, including the tooling used for Board-level Key Risk Indicators, issue and risk management, third-party cyber risk anagement and software development lifecycle compliance. 14. Own the GRC tooling strategy, including ServiceNow, ensuring the platforms used across GSK for risk and compliance management are modern, well-integrated and fit for purpose. 15. Bring fresh, innovative thinking to how GSK instruments and automates risk and compliance, challenging existing approaches to deliver superior outcomes with less manual effort. 16. Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modelling responsible use and follow GSK's Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements. Why You? Basic Qualification We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals: 1. Bachelor's degree. 2. Experience in risk analytics, automation or security data science. 3. Experience building AI and intelligent automation solutions. 4. Product management experience, including applying Agile delivery methods and translating stakeholder requirements into a prioritised roadmap. 5. Experience applying Lean Six Sigma or other process excellence methodologies. 6. Experience delivering data platforms and data pipelines. 7. Experience leading a technical capability. 8. Cyber security experience, including leading a global capability. 9. Experience managing people leaders across multiple geographies. 10. Experience managing a capability budget and vendor portfolio. 11. Experience with quantitative risk analysis and statistical methods. 12. Experience presenting to executive leadership or board-level audiences Preferred QualificationIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: 1. Experience leading a data, analytics or automation capability. 2. Experience with cyber risk quantification methods and associated quantitative risk analysis techniques. 3. Familiarity with modern Risk Operations Centre (ROC) concepts and operating models. 4. Experience with continuous controls monitoring. 5. Familiarity with modern GRC platforms, especially ServiceNow. 6. Cloud data platform experience in Azure, AWS or GCP. 7. Relevant certification such as CRISC, CISSP, cloud data or analytics certifications. 8. Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry. Typical tools and technologies: Python, SQL, Azure data stack, ServiceNow GRC, Power BI, automation, RPA and AI/intelligent automation tooling. #GSKcso #Li-GSK #AGTech Skills Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Data Integrity, Executive Reports, Identity Access M