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Global Commercial Talent Lead

Location: GSK House

• GSK House, Brentford

We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.

Job Purpose:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Global Talent Lead to join our team supporting the Global Commercial business!

As the GC Talent Lead, you will use your deep expertise in talent, and HR Business Partnering to shape and drive the strategic integrated talent management agenda within the Commercial business. You will build a high quality, diverse talent pipeline focussed on critical capabilities in the business – a true differentiator and a competitive advantage for GSK. You will act as a point of integration between Global and Regional to build synergies across Talent and streamline our approach to talent management.

You will partner with the Regional Talent POCs, HRBLs, and the COE to deliver the global to local talent strategy, accounting for requirements of the business now and in the future as a successful commercial organization. You will be an expert, consultant and thought partner to senior HR business leaders, to diagnose specific talent challenges / opportunities and recommend appropriate solutions, ensuring rigour and quality of adoption.

You will combine your knowledge of external research and best practice with your understanding of GSK and Global Commercial strategy and identify enterprise-wide opportunities and challenges. You will develop appropriate approaches and implementation standards for use across the business. You will be a thought leader and challenger who champions a ‘culture of talent’.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Partner with Regional Talent POCs, HRBLs, COE and the business to continue to drive the global to local talent agenda, future focused talent strategy and strategic workforce planning. Develop interventions that can be implemented throughout GC to strengthen talent and succession plans and external recruitment pipelines.
• Develop and implement a talent plan for GC that improves bench strength for critical and priority roles and provides sustainable, diverse talent pipelines; whilst building strong ownership from the business, working with the Global Centre of Excellence, HRBLs, our recruitment teams, and business leaders.
• Partner with GC Embedded CoE to coordinate and plan GCLT Talent activities
• Collaborate with Global Talent Business Leads and GSK’s People and Organisational Effectiveness Centre of Excellence to bring business insight to the global agenda and ensure consistency and coherence in approach across GSK
• Work with the GC Capability Lead and People, Data and Analytics Lead, business leaders and HRBLs to identify key strategic capabilities and devise talent plans to meet future workforce needs.
• Bring the outside in, leverage external market insights, best practice knowledge and GSK global talent practices to assess talent opportunities both across Commercial, collaborate with Talent & DEI colleagues to recommend solutions designed to optimize the efficacy of Commercial talent management practices (recruit, develop, retain) and enhance our pipeline of diverse talent.
• Monitor the delivery of key talent KPIs and ensure business leaders demonstrate accountability for development and delivery of key plans in their areas
• Desire for excellence, striving for constant improvement and increased efficiency, with a proven track record of project delivery.
• Strong consulting and relationship building and communication skills, to work across different cultures and ability to adjust to different approaches

Why you?

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Strong business acumen
• Proven ability in developing Talent, Recruitment and Workforce strategies for global businesses along with interventions and approaches to develop talent, and improve succession plans and pipelines with proven outcomes
• Have strong expertise in Talent solutions that the business will need to leverage attract, recruit, develop and retain a diverse workforce and build an inclusive culture – ideally in a global organisation.
• Be an influencer, experienced in defining and delivering focused and impactful plans in a large, complex, matrix organisation which is culturally and geographically diverse with multiple stakeholders in HR and the business.
• Demonstrated competence in leading change around diverse talent acquisition and inclusion and diversity
• Experience of working with data to create insight and diagnose talent and recruitment risks and opportunities
• Excellent consultancy skills with confidence and ability to influence, challenge and coach at a senior leader
• Demonstrated learning agility and organisational skills, experience of working in a matrixed environment and leveraging the OneHR model to deliver effectively
• Strong relationship building, to work and influence across different cultures with the ability to adjust to different approaches, and deliver through external partners as required

Preferred Experience / qualifications and skills:

• Have a degree or equivalent experience in Human Resources and/or Business/Management
• Experience of working in a large region and or global business / Pharmaceutical Industry
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline
• Strategic workforce planning
• Knowledge of learning
• Experience in data analytics

Closing Date for Applications: 25th June 2023

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

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