HR Business Partner R&D - Director level

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 providing HR Business Partnering for the Global Vaccines Research and Development organization. which is central to the delivery of the GSK strategy.

This role supports a global team with employees in Belgium, Italy and the US.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include:

• Coaching and Developing Senior Leaders: Apply your insights and influencing skills to coach and counsel senior business leaders. Provide input, constructive feedback, and healthy challenge in a way that builds trust and enables the team and individuals to perform at their best. Identify and help to close leadership capability gaps including but not limited to: Leading through change, influencing, developing others, performance management and difficult conversations.

• Organisational Design and Development: Partner with the business to identify opportunities to improve organization effectiveness. Identify and improve how an organisation 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.

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

• Culture Development: Translate the business agenda into the desired culture in an engaging, inclusive way. Coach and influence leaders to develop and enhance engagement strategies. Develop leaders' capability to understand how they impact and shift the culture. Ensure they are creating a diverse and inclusive environment.

• Succession planning and Talent Management: Coach and challenge leaders to identify, attract, develop and retain a strong talent pipeline. Drive Sr. leaders to embed best practices and effective succession planning processes. Align succession planning and talent management to the overall workforce strategy. Improve leaders' ability to lead and develop employees to reach their full potential regardless of background or differences.

• 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. Develop and implement optimal workforce plans focused on key strategic capabilities required to drive the business.

• Leading and Delivering Change: Identify the potential impact of pending organisational and cultural changes to help formulate integrated solutions designed to help leaders support their employees to embrace and embed change, while achieving the desired business outcomes.

• 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 Resource 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: In partnership with Reward experts apply critical thinking, business acumen and sound judgement within the context of GSK reward strategy to develop and deliver plans which enable the delivery of the business priorities. Use insights from external trends and internal data to construct and support business case development. Ensure compensation strategies support the attraction and retention of a high performing, diverse workforce that enables the business' broader workforce plan. Coach and influence senior leaders to differentiate and reward individuals commensurate with their value and contributions to the business.

Additional information:

• Reporting line: HRBL VP HR Development & Belgium People Lead

• Number of positions available: 1

• People management (direct/indirect reports, etc.): no

• Business travel requirements: yes (around 25% to EU if you are based in the US)

• Primary location: Wavre, Belgium

• Secondary locations: greater Boston (US) or US East Coast locations close to GSK strategic sites. Applications from candidates located close to GSK strategic locations will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

• Relocation package: no

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor degree level in Human Resources Management or related Social Science degree

• Experience in HR management/leadership roles in the pharmaceutical sector

• Global HRBP experience supporting multiple countries- primarily Belgium and US (knowledge of local labor laws required)

• Experience delivering interventions across a range of HR activities including leadership development, talent management, exec coaching, building high performing teams, capability builds and performance management

• Experience designing, and delivering large scale, complex, global, transformational, cultural and organizational change projects, improving organizational effectiveness

• Experience recruiting, onboarding, influencing, coaching and counseling senior leaders

• Experience using data and analytics to identify business insights

• Fluency in English - written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Master's degree level in Human Resources Management or related Social Science degree

• Experience in HR management roles (senior manager / associate director level) in large, complex pharmaceutical industries

• HRBP experience supporting Belgium, US and Italy (knowledge of local social legislations, local industrial relations, cultural differences, etc.)

• HRBP experience in supporting R&D populations including blue/white collars (R&D manufacturing), scientists and R&D executives

• Strong business acumen and track record of translating business objectives into innovative solutions

• Experience supporting complex technical businesses

• Experience working with unions and works councils in Belgium on organizational changes

• Strong experience in project management, continuous improvement and process excellence

• Experience managing immigration and mobility processes

• MBA or additional business and leadership experience

• Fluency in French - written and spoken

Application closing date: Friday February 14th, 2025

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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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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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