Associate Director - Business Change Management

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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.

Role Expectation:

Responsible for planning and delivery of the change and communications activities, reporting progress against plan and managing risks and issues.

Managing a complex and very senior stakeholder landscape, where stakeholders are engaged effectively to ensure understanding, buy in and a smooth path for project delivery;

Identifying, mobilising and managing the change network for the project. Creating and executing a Business Change impact assessment and change action plan to ensure change is successfully mitigated.

Executing business readiness activities to measure whether impacted employees are ready for the change, creating and delivering adoption plans as necessary.

Effective management of all communications activities including, audience and stakeholder identification, development of a communications engagement strategy, key messages, materials and channels while ensuring content is created in line with GSK’s tone of voice, tools and brand guidelines. 

Engage with the wider GSK change and comms management community to drive best practices and learnings, and to ensure compliance to global policies, principles and tools.

Desired experience and skills

• Deep subject matter expert in change and communication management.
• Knowledge of Pharma product development cycle, R&D and Clinical Development is must. Working experience through relevant project is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of delivering transformational change on multiple large-scale programmes (e.g. ERP, Digital transformation, process changes)
• 15+ years+ experience of Change Management and communications delivery; some training experience is advantageous
• Experience of lean methodologies preferred
• Ability to inspire cross-functional, virtual, global, and diverse teams 
• Relationship and stakeholder management, ( e.g. persuading and influencing skills)
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation capabilities along with a process-focused perspective
• Proven ability to deliver results in a complex /global environment and to solve complex business and process problems.
• Prosci Change Management Certification (preferred)
• Flexible to Work in UK hrs.

At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

  
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