People Analytics Project Manager – People Data Analytics

We are looking for someone who wants to leverage people insights, employee listening and data insights across GSK, to enable senior leaders and the board to better understand and improve engagement, performance, wellbeing, and inclusivity.

The People Data Analytics (PDA) team in GSK is a global team with a purpose to leverage science and people data to improve employee insights and drive data-based people strategy and decision-making across the company. As a close-knit function of data scientists, behavioural scientists, engineers, and employee listening experts, we are working to find new ways of understanding and improving the employee experience to help our colleagues globally get Ahead Together.

About the role

As a Project Manager People Data Analytics, you will be responsible for the project management, report writing, and driving the delivery of our largest employee listening initiatives, such as our annual engagement survey, and “One80” manager feedback survey. You will form an integral part of the cross-functional squad with our Behavioural and Data Science teams to integrate scientific and analytical insights into our employee listening, while ensuring a smooth end-user experience for survey recipients and dashboard users. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to project manage initiatives that directly link with and impact the people strategy of a large, global organisation, with outputs that have a significant impact with the board of directors and the most senior business leaders across our organisation. This role is also an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to gain experience in people data insight to build a career in people data science or behavioural science.  

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme. 

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work. 

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK 

In this role you will

• Delivering employee listening projects, through survey design, platform preparation (Qualtrics), and results reporting
• Stakeholder management through coordinate with HR and the business counterparts to convert requirements into manageable input into the survey, reporting and dashboard design
• Manage the Employee Listening dashboards (PowerBI) for senior HR and business leaders
• Project manage our employee listening activities, such as creating and managing our annual employee listening plans, as well as detailed project plans and governance structures for individual listening projects
• Write and distribute regular project progress reporting to senior stakeholders
• Coordinating and running regular employee listening steering committee calls with senior leaders and decision makers on a regular basis
• Facilitate data governance through report distribution and platform access control
• Ensure adherence to applicable controls such as data privacy
• Leverage people analytics or behavioural science insights to provide advice on how to improve our employee listening approach

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Experience in consulting, Human Resources, project management, or another relevant field
• Demonstrated ability to use Excel with large volumes of data
• Demonstrated ability in project management such as project status reporting, project planning, chairing project team check-ins, and writing minutes
• Experience in stakeholder management and delivering content to senior leaders
• Experience within fast-moving, complex, and demanding environments and with a need to multi-task and deal with ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply: 

• Experience in designing, managing, and reporting on surveys
• Experience creating and managing PowerBI dashboards
• Experience working with workforce data and HR platforms such as Workday and Qualtrics
• Demonstrated experience of project management using MS Projects and Waterfall methodology. Agile, Scrum and/or Kanban experience is an extra benefit
• Demonstrated ability of working with Third party service providers
• Experience in the Pharmaceutical industry

Closing Date for Applications – 28th August 2024 (COB) 

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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. 

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.

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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