We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 1.7 billion packs of medicine and 767 million vaccine doses in 2021.

We continue to modernise, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst turbo-charging delivery across our entire portfolio through our relentless focus on quality, safety, and service. The way we work will change. For some, the shift in technology and products will be revolutionary. Our R&D pipeline demands a new kind of supply chain, and we need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of automation and robotics so we can work smarter together.

Sustainability Analyst

GSK has ambitious environmental sustainability goals to have a net zero impact on climate and a net positive impact on nature by 2030

In this role, you will work in the Global Sustainability function, taking ownership in leading projects and working alongside subject matter experts responsible for the sustainability strategy. The role of the Sustainability Analyst involves supporting and enabling the business in reaching its ambitious sustainability goals for Nature and Climate. It will provide the opportunity to work across a broad scope of disciplines within a global sustainability leadership team.

You will be part of a team that are prioritising and delivering GSK’s impact reduction on the natural environment and enabling us to prioritise action to achieve our 2030 ambitions. Working with subject matter experts on Water Circularity, Biodiversity, Land and Nature, as well as the wider business, to help them deliver improvement programs for internal and value chain impact reductions.

You will be generating data and information to be used to help prioritise sustainability improvements. Working with internal and external stakeholders, you will be sourcing the data needed to support better decision making and presenting the results in an engaging way.

You will help to create content for communications and training, as well as contributing to the GSK standards, guidance and policy reviews that enables progress towards our 2030 targets

There is remote working flexibility in this role, however you would be expected to work at the GSK House site for 1 -2 days per week.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the Global Standards and guidance documents enabling an aligned approach and technical guidance support to subject matter experts
• Respond to technical queries and remove technical barriers to delivery, enabling business to achieve and accurately report performance.
• Deep dive on pertinent risks and external developments impacting delivery of environmental targets
• Support the running of the regular subject matter expert forums, training and communications
• Tracking progress against current and maintenance KPIs, forecasting performance, clearly identifying and addressing risks to delivery as well as opportunities to accelerate against targets.
• Collaborate with peer companies and other organisations to identify and champion opportunities to work across the sector to increase recycling / reuse of waste in the supply chain, as well as land and biodiversity collaborations.
• Maintain GSK’s value stream carob, water, waste and nature footprints
• Identify hotspots of carbon, water & waste and land & biodiversity in the supply chain to drive actions to reduce impacts
• Creating and maintaining reduction glidepaths
• Build repository of good practices and share best practice to promote consistent application

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 12th March 2023

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Environmental Science, Environment Management, or related fields.
• Previous experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment
• Experience of working in a corporate sustainability function
• Experience of designing and implementing a sustainable sourcing strategy in the pharmaceutical industry, identifying high risk materials with direct nature impacts
• Ability to prioritize and deal with dynamic business environment.
• Work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving
• Confident in gathering, understanding, and reporting data.
• Capability to present coherent arguments to achieve the desired outcome with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to use data to back up assumptions and develop business cases

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Familiarity with external Environmental system datasets such as the WWF Water and Biodiversity Risk tool.

Why GSK?

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 impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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Annual Report 2021

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 impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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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