Senior Associate, Cyber Resilience

ROLE SUMMARY

Our Global Governance, Risk, and Compliance team provides comprehensive blueprints for cybersecurity excellence by embedding governance, risk management, and compliance into every layer. The team is responsible for ensuring risk-based decision-making is used and that security, privacy, and regulatory compliance is integrated seamlessly with Pfizer’s organization.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Associate, Resilience to support the development and execution of our cyber resilience and operational preparedness capabilities. This role will play a key part in helping ensure Pfizer can anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber disruptions, technology failures, third‑party incidents, and operational crises—while maintaining GxP compliance, patient safety, data integrity, and regulatory continuity. 

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the development and maintenance of cyber resilience frameworks, playbooks, and procedures aligned to business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response.

• Contribute to cyber incident simulations, tabletop exercises, and recovery testing to validate organizational readiness.

• Assist in identifying and prioritizing critical business services, systems, and dependencies to inform resilience planning.

• Collaborate with GRC, Digital, Manufacturing, R&D, and Business stakeholders to assess cyber resilience risks and control gaps.

• Support alignment to industry frameworks and regulatory expectations (e.g., NIST CSF, GxP considerations).

• Document evidence and artifacts required for audits, assessments, and regulatory inquiries.

• Track remediation actions and resilience enhancements across technology, process, and third‑party dependencies.

• Analyze incidents and disruption events to identify lessons learned and improvement opportunities.

• Support metrics, reporting, and dashboards to communicate resilience posture to leadership.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required in cybersecurity, information systems, risk management, or related discipline preferred.

• 3+ years of experience in information security, risk, compliance, information protection, or related disciplines

• Foundational knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, incident response, and risk management.

• Experience working in regulated industries (pharma, life sciences, healthcare, or manufacturing strongly preferred).

• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, PMP, or other governance/risk credentials.

• Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800‑53, ISO 22301, or ISO 27001.

• Exposure to GxP, validated systems, manufacturing environments, or OT/ICS risks.

• Experience supporting cyber exercises, scenario testing, or recovery planning.

 
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

Please apply by sending your CV and a motivational letter in English

Purpose 

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.  

Digital Transformation Strategy

One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

Disability Inclusion

Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

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