This role is office based in central London, and requires 2/3 days a week presence in the office

The executive search team in GSK plays a critical role in directly sourcing, engaging and hiring senior leaders (SVP & VP) to support all business areas. Reporting to the Head of Executive Search, you will have full accountability for GSK’s Support Functions and ViiV, partnering with senior HR & business leaders to develop innovative sourcing plans to attract key talent. You will be supported by an Executive Researcher and join an experienced executive search team dedicated to GSK. You will become an expert in your business areas and partner with talent leads to support succession planning activities.

This is a great time to join the team in this exciting role where you will:

• Ensure that GSK has the right supply of diverse talent to meet current and future capability demands
• Support the demand for executive level talent with the internal and external supply, with a primary focus on bringing external talent into the organisation
• Ensure that a proactive approach to talent acquisition delivers high calibre talent to the organisation whilst ensuring key internal talent can grow & develop in GSK

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the talent acquisition activity for senior level vacancies (VP and SVP) including recruitment strategy, sourcing, attraction, selection & assessment
• Accountable for the development and delivery of a plan to source external talent and broker internal talent based on the outputs of talent reviews and succession plans
• Develop strong external pipelines of talent for key roles, skills and capabilities as driven by the business strategy, engaging line leaders as talent spotters and developing deep marketplace knowledge. Includes attendance at key external conferences to represent GSK
• Lead on the assessment and selection of executive search firms, as required
• Consult to senior level management based on expertise and credibility in uncovering true talent and capability needs for the business while efficiently assessing talent capability and fit
• Provide talent intelligence to support planning and decision making in the business
• Select the most appropriate recruitment & selection methods balancing relevant factors such as quality, cost and speed of hire, while ensuring full compliance with GSK policies
• Partner with other Executive Recruiters on sharing best practice, key talent and critical vacancies
• Build strong knowledge of third party recruitment partners and their capabilities, to ensure that the most effective search strategy is applied to any given project i.e. whether to use a search partner, Researcher, own sourcing capability

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Undergraduate degree (BA, BSc) or Advanced Degree
• Experience of leading an Executive search process, with the ability to source, develop and recruit senior level candidates. This experience could be gained in an in-house role or through an Executive Search firm
• Ideally experience of recruiting senior roles in Commercial Tech, Finance, HR - but experience of leadership roles in other functions will be considered
• Experience supporting multiple client groups
• Consulting and influencing at executive level
• Expertise in developing compensation packages for executive level candidates and deal negotiation
• Experience of contracting with executive search firms
• Must work effectively across cultural, language, legislative and geographical boundaries, coaching senior leaders and team members, providing advice and leadership on talent related issues and topics

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Ability to make independent decisions around day-to-day occurrences while considering the wider impact of decisions and plans on other areas
• Experience managing a challenging and complex workload in an efficient and effective manner
• Working across a dynamic, complex matrix of internal and external stakeholders and customers

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 28 August 2024

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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).

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