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Director, Culture and Communities

GSK London, New Oxford Street Hybrid executive full-time

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Description

The Director, Culture and Communities will own the Culture and Communities capability end to end, including its strategy, delivery and performance.

This is a leadership role accountable for the capability and the team that delivers it. The role brings a science-based approach -- grounded in human psychology, behavioural and decision science -- to building a risk-aware culture that produces measurably superior outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

  • Own the Culture and Communities capability end to end, including roadmap, delivery and service performance.
  • Lead and develop the team, setting priorities and managing performance.
  • Own the capability budget and supplier relationships.
  • Report capability performance and risk to CSO leadership and governance forums.
  • Own the cyber security awareness and behavioural change programme across GSK.
  • Apply human psychology, behavioural and decision science to the design of culture and awareness interventions.
  • Bring innovative and creative thinking to how GSK builds a risk-aware culture.
  • Design and run campaigns which measurably influence the behaviours that drive GSK risk.
  • Grow and run the Cyber Defenders security champions network across business units and sites.
  • Grow and run the Secure Together community which encourages collaboration and sharing across Pharma and Life Sciences.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in security awareness, behavioural change or internal communications.
  • Working knowledge of campaign design and measurement.
  • Practical experience with stakeholder engagement across a global organisation.
  • Working knowledge of human psychology, behavioural science or decision science.
  • Proven experience building and growing communities.
  • Strong track record of using data and evidence to prove behavioural and cultural outcomes.
  • Substantial experience in cyber security.
  • Proven experience leading and developing technical or specialist teams.
  • Experience managing budget, suppliers and delivery commitments.
  • Strong influencing and communication skills with senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience running phishing simulation programmes.
  • Content production and communications skill.
  • Experience operating across multiple languages and regions.
  • Relevant certification such as CISSP, SANS security awareness credentials, CIPP.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.
  • Background in marketing, psychology or another adjacent behavioural or social science field is desirable.

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience running phishing simulation programmes
  • Content production and communications skill
  • Experience operating across multiple languages and regions
  • Relevant certification such as CISSP, SANS security awareness credentials, CIPP
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry
  • Background in marketing, psychology or another adjacent behavioural or social science field

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