HR Business Partner

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

• Act as a strategic HR partner to VP/Senior Director-level leaders, translating the commercial strategy into an integrated people plan for the UK LOC.
• Use strong business insight and data (including analytics and AI) to identify people-related risks, opportunities and interventions that improve performance.
• Prioritise HR initiatives based on strategic impact, cost, risk and short- vs long-term trade-offs, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and governance.

• Lead and support large-scale change and transformation (e.g. commercial model shifts, organisational redesign, major projects) with clear people and change plans.
• Diagnose change needs using data and systemic thinking, designing integrated solutions that help leaders and teams understand, embrace and embed change.
• Coach and influence senior leaders to effectively lead change, balancing business outcomes with people impact and risk.

• Partner with leaders to identify current and future talent and capability needs, ensuring robust succession and talent pipelines for critical roles.
• Translate enterprise talent and leadership strategies into interventions that build high-performing, future-ready teams.
• Coach and challenge senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and talent development.

• Shape and champion a culture that supports the UK Commercial strategy and GSK values, promoting an inclusive and high-performance environment.
• Use organisational insight (engagement surveys, exit data, workforce analytics) to identify culture strengths, risks and opportunities and convert these into targeted actions.
• Support leaders to build clear engagement strategies and understand the impact of their behaviours on culture and employee experience.

• Develop and implement workforce and capability plans that ensure the right skills, resources and structures are in place to deliver the commercial agenda.
• Use organisational design and effectiveness principles to improve clarity of roles, accountability, decision-making and ways of working.
• Apply data and analytics to diagnose organisational issues, assess options and track progress against agreed outcomes.

• Manage relationships with employee representative bodies (including Information & Consultation Forums) and ensure UK consultation and ER obligations are met with genuine engagement.
• Provide expert guidance on ER and HR governance, partnering with specialist teams to manage escalations and mitigate risk in line with GSK policies and UK employment law.
• Work with Reward partners to shape local reward and retention approaches that attract, engage and retain a high-performing workforce.

• Partner across the HR model (HR Embedded, HR Centre of Excellence and People Services) to bring the HR operating model to life, reducing unnecessary customisation and championing standard tools and processes.
• Build credible, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and constructively challenging thinking with an enterprise mindset.
• Represent HR as a strategic function, contributing to the shaping of business and people agendas, not just their delivery.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.

We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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