HR Business Partner Vaccines R&D

An outstanding opportunity is available for a talented individual to join the Vaccines & Infectious Disease R&D HR team as a HR Business Partner!

This is a rare opportunity to join the team in a global role that will enable you to build critical R&D insight and business acumen. You will be working as a key member of two senior leadership teams and hold accountability for supporting the design and delivery of the HR strategy for the aligned business areas.

In this role, you will partner with Vaccines R&D 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 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 prioritize based on strategic impact, cost, risk, and short vs. long term trade-offs.

• Identify issues and opportunities for business performance 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.

• Collaborate with leaders to increase employee wellbeing.

Organisational Design and Development:

• Partner with the business to identify opportunities within their lines to improve organization effectiveness.

• 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. 

• Support the implementation of optimal workforce plans focused on key strategic capabilities required to drive the business.   

Succession planning, Talent Management and Performance:

• 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 under performance.

HR Governance and Risk Management: 

• Apply knowledge of operating principles and policies to HR activity to ensure risks are mitigated. 

• Escalate matters appropriately and partner with the Employee Response Center to resolve high risk issues and implement strategies to reduce such issues. 

• Support the business in negotiations and discussions with Labor Unions and Works Councils.

• Work in close collaboration with the industrial relations teams to maintain a positive social climate.

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?

Qualifications & Skills

• University Degree (Human Resources, Business or related field)

• Strong Belgium HR generalist experience

• Strong understanding and experience with industrial relations / Belgian labor law

• Experience working with employee relations

• HR Business partnering experience delivering plans and 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

• Understanding of the Belgian consultation landscape and process

• Experience successfully delivering against demanding projects or initiatives within timeline and budget, with high quality demonstrated impact.

• Strong decision making based upon sound flexible thinking and calculated risk.

• Ability to influence, challenge and coach at senior leadership level.

• Fluent French and English

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• 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.

• Demonstrated learning agility and organizational skills, with the ability to deal with complexity in a fast-paced working environment

• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization, leveraging influence within a complex network of stakeholders.

• Strong project management skills and passion for continuous improvement

• Understanding of the US and Italian consultation landscape and process

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If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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).

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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