Senior Information Security Leader — Corporate Systems

Updated: Yesterday
Location: Bridgewater, NJ, United States
Job :-OTHLOC-1144-2DH

Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
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Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.

• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.

• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Syneos Health has three business units, Corporate, Clinical, and Commercial. Each of these units has a unique set of functions and requirements to operate smoothly and efficiently. The Business Information Security Leader (BISL) serves as the senior security executive embedded within an assigned business unit (Clinical, Commercial, or Corporate) accountable for information security across that sector. The BISL works across all departments and teams globally within its assigned business unit.

This role has responsibility for strategic solution design aligned to company-wide objectives. The BISL is accountable for ensuring transparency of cyber risk posture, embedding security into business strategy and enabling secure product delivery.

The BISL works as a security business partner to a business unit, leading the development and evolution of security strategy for the sector, and ensuring it is achieving shared business and security goals. The BISL operates as a trusted member of the business-aligned Syneos Technology Solutions (STS) leadership team while maintaining a strong functional alignment to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

The candidate must have a broad understanding of technologies and security strategies and effectively communicate to all levels within the organization. This role ensures that security is integrated across the full product lifecycle and that business decisions appropriately balance risk, regulatory requirements, and operational objectives.

In addition to the job responsibilities below, this individual will need to understand and adapt to the ever-changing cybersecurity risk landscape to best advise on risk mitigation and avoidance strategies for their assigned business unit.

• Serve as the senior security advisor to the assigned business-aligned STS leadership team.

• Partner across all departments and teams globally within the assigned business unit.

• Align security priorities with STS business strategy, digital roadmaps, and regulatory requirements.

• Embed security-by-design principles into portfolio planning, demand intake and product development processes.

• Inform Information Security priorities with STS product team strategy & goals.

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