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An outstanding opportunity is available for a talented individual to join the R&D HR team as an HR Business Partner. This is a critical global role as it provides HR Business Partnering for the Medicine Development and Supply organization.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to support key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include:

These responsibilities include some of the following:

This role will partner with the MDS functional lines to effectively execute the people plan in multiple areas:

Leading and Delivering Change:

• Understand current and future needs of the business.
• Use data and systemic thinking to help diagnose key opportunities for change. Formulate integrated solutions designed to drive employee engagement desired business outcomes.
• Lead and drive the delivery of diverse change projects (i.e. complex and global change projects, workforce restructuring, etc.) in support of the business’s strategic agenda.
• Champion and influence senior leaders to effectively lead through change.

Business Acumen:

• Apply knowledge and insights on the business environment in the context of HR activity to improve business performance.
• Leverage understanding of the bottom-line impact of HR initiatives to prioritises on the basis of strategic impact, cost, risk, and short vs. long term trade-offs.
• Identify issues and opportunities for business improvements in a people context.

Culture Development:

• Coach and influence leaders to execute engagement strategies tied to business and cultural priorities. Develop leaders’ capability to understand how they impact and shift the culture.
• Coach and support leaders to create a diverse and inclusive environment and high performing teams.

Organisational Design and Development:

• Partner with the business to identify opportunities within their lines to improve organization effectiveness.
• Identify and improve how an organization channels resources, defines structure, jobs and work processes, motivates performance and shapes the patterns of informal interactions and relationships as a key enabler of business strategy.
• Use data and analytics to understand the business, identify opportunities for improvement, assess potential solutions and monitor achievement of benefits.

Workforce and Strategic Capability Planning:

• Apply business insight to diagnose present and future capability gaps.
• Utilize understanding of external talent benchmarks and best practice to inform internal strategies and propose innovative ways of attracting, engaging and retaining talent.
• Support the implementation of optimal workforce plans focused on key strategic capabilities required to drive the business.

Succession planning and Talent Management:

• Execute talent strategies focused on attracting, developing and retaining a strong, diverse talent pipeline.
• Coach and challenge Sr. leaders to embed effective talent management.
• Improve leaders’ ability to develop employees, have difficult conversations and manage performance.

HR Governance and Risk Management:

• Apply knowledge of operating principles and policies to HR activity to ensure risks are mitigated.
• Manage escalations and support the business to create a positive employee environment.
• Escalate appropriately and partner with the Employee Response Center to resolve high risk issues and implement strategies to reduce such issues.
• Ensure inappropriate behaviors are dealt with in a direct, challenging and tough-minded manner.

Reward and Retention Strategy:

• Coach and influence senior leaders to differentiate and reward individuals commensurate with their value and contributions to the business, supporting a pay for performance culture.
• In partnership with Reward experts, apply business acumen and sound judgement within the context of GSK reward strategy to develop and execute plans which enable the delivery of business priorities.

• Ensure compensation strategies support the attraction and retention of a high performing, diverse workforce that enables the business’ broader workforce plan.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• University/college Diploma or Degree (Human Resources, Business or related field)
• Strong HR operations/generalist experience
• Experience delivering interventions across a range of HR activities including leadership development, talent management, Inclusion and Diversity, executive coaching, building high performing teams, capability builds and performance management
• Experience leveraging data and analytics to draw insights and recommend actions
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Strong decision making based upon sound flexible thinking and calculated risk
• Strong project management skills and passion for continuous improvement
• Understanding of the global consultation landscape and process
• Experience successfully delivering against demanding projects or initiatives within timeline and budget, with high quality demonstrated impact
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization, leveraging influence within a complex network of stakeholders
• Demonstrated learning agility and organisational skills, with the ability to deal with complexity in a fast-paced working environment
• HR Business Partnering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to influence, challenge and coach at senior leadership level
• Demonstrated ability to communicate vision, strategy and direction, in an inspiring and credible manner
• Experience delivering complex organizational changes including global restructuring
• Desire for excellence, striving for constant improvement and increased performance, with a proven track record of successful business impact
• Strong decision making based upon sound flexible thinking and calculated risk

Why GSK?

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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).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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