Business Information Security Leader (BISL) - Hybrid - Bridgewater, NJ or Morrisville, NC

Syneos Health•Morrisville, NC

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Syneos Health is a leading life sciences services organization focused on accelerating customer success. The Business Information Security Leader (BISL) is a senior security executive embedded within an assigned business unit (Clinical, Commercial, or Corporate), responsible for information security across that sector. This role collaborates across all departments and teams globally within its assigned business unit, focusing on strategic solution design aligned with company-wide objectives. The BISL ensures transparency of cyber risk posture, integrates security into business strategy, and enables secure product delivery. Operating as a trusted member of the business-aligned Syneos Technology Solutions (STS) leadership team, the BISL maintains strong functional alignment with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The ideal candidate possesses a broad understanding of technologies and security strategies, can effectively communicate across all organizational levels, and ensures security is integrated throughout the product lifecycle, balancing risk, regulatory requirements, and operational objectives. This role requires adapting to the evolving cybersecurity risk landscape to advise on risk mitigation and avoidance strategies.

Requirements

Broad understanding of technologies and security strategies.
Ability to effectively communicate to all levels within the organization.
Understanding and adaptation to the ever-changing cybersecurity risk landscape.
Experience in strategic solution design aligned to company-wide objectives.
Experience embedding security into business strategy.
Experience enabling secure product delivery.
Experience as a security business partner to a business unit.
Experience leading the development and evolution of security strategy for a sector.
Experience ensuring alignment with shared business and security goals.
Experience operating as a trusted member of a business-aligned leadership team.
Experience maintaining strong functional alignment to a CISO.
Experience ensuring security is integrated across the full product lifecycle.
Experience advising on risk mitigation and avoidance strategies.
Experience serving as a senior security advisor to leadership teams.
Experience partnering across departments and teams globally.
Experience aligning security priorities with business strategy, digital roadmaps, and regulatory requirements.
Experience embedding security-by-design principles into planning and development processes.
Experience informing security priorities with product team strategy & goals.
Experience representing security requirements in governance forums.
Experience providing senior-level accountability for security strategy.
Experience maintaining visibility into aggregated cyber risk posture.
Experience ensuring risk assessments are conducted for new and materially changed technologies.
Experience serving as a security risk advisor, providing mitigation and remediation guidance.
Experience tracking and highlighting risk treatment plans progress.
Experience providing formal risk posture reporting.
Experience escalating roadblocks inhibiting timely mitigation or closure of risks.
Experience preventing unmanaged technology risk proliferation.
Experience exercising senior decision authority for cybersecurity and technology risk matters.
Experience participating in business demand and portfolio review processes.
Experience ensuring projects receive appropriate security requirements and technical guidance.
Experience driving early involvement of regulatory, privacy, and compliance subject matter experts.
Experience monitoring and driving adherence to enterprise security standards and architectural patterns.
Experience ensuring adherence to security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
Experience partnering with Compliance, Privacy, Legal and other Risk functions.
Experience supporting security-related audits, regulatory inquiries, and remediation activities.
Experience representing a business unit in enterprise security, risk, and compliance governance forums.
Experience supporting security investigations and post-incident reviews.
Experience driving business engagement in continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Experience promoting a culture of secure behavior and accountability.
Experience cascading and tailoring security communications and awareness.
Experience translating complex security risks into business-relevant language.
Experience providing executive-ready reporting and risk insights.
Experience influencing decision-making through data-driven risk transparency.
Experience providing strategic leadership and direction across senior leaders, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Novel FDA Approved Drugs.
Experience with EMA Authorized Products.
Experience with Clinical Trials.
Experience with Sites and Trial Patients.

Responsibilities

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.
Represent security requirements in portfolio governance forums.
Provide senior level accountability for the business unit security strategy, ensuring consistent direction, prioritization, and alignment with company wide objectives while maintaining strong partnership with the CISO.
Maintain visibility into the aggregated cyber risk posture of the assigned business unit.
Ensure risk assessments are conducted, partnering with the Risk Management function, for new and materially changed technologies.
Serve as a security risk advisor to business-aligned STS leadership, provide mitigation and remediation guidance, track and highlight risk treatment plans progress.
Provide formal risk posture reporting to STS leadership on a defined cadence.
Escalate roadblocks inhibiting timely mitigation or closure of risks.
Prevent unmanaged technology risk proliferation.
Exercise senior decision authority for cybersecurity and technology risk matters within the Business Unit, including oversight of risk acceptance, escalation to enterprise forums, and long-term risk posture considerations.
Participate in business demand and portfolio review processes to ensure early security engagement.
Ensure projects receive appropriate security requirements and technical guidance.
Drive early involvement of regulatory, privacy, and compliance subject matter experts.
Monitor and drive adherence to enterprise security standards and architectural patterns.
Deliver strategic solution design aligned to company-wide objectives.
Ensure business unit adherence to security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., Privacy, SOX, GxP as applicable).
Partner with Compliance, Privacy, Legal and other Risk functions to address control gaps.
Partner with CISO subject matter experts to support security-related audits, regulatory inquiries, and remediation activities.
Represent the business unit in enterprise security, risk, and compliance governance forums, providing senior-level input on regulatory risk and remediation priorities.
Support security investigations and post-incident reviews, providing senior oversight and accountability for remediation outcomes and systemic improvements.
Drive business engagement in continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into control improvements and architecture patterns.
Promote a culture of secure behavior and accountability.
Cascade and tailor security communications and awareness for maximum business unit impact.
Translate complex security risks into business-relevant language.
Provide periodic executive-ready reporting and risk insights.
Influence decision-making through data-driven risk transparency.
Provide strategic leadership and direction across senior leaders, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders within the Business Unit, enabling consistent execution in a complex, matrixed environment.

Benefits

Company car or car allowance
Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
Company match 401k
Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance
Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

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