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About the Role

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will act as a strategic and trusted partner to leaders within the UK Commercial LOC, driving the organisation's people agenda across talent, leadership, capability, and culture. This role is central to enabling the LOC's business transformation, ensuring effective change leadership, supporting leaders through complexity, and building necessary organizational capability.

Responsibilities

Act as a strategic HR partner to VP/Senior Director-level leaders, translating the commercial strategy into an integrated people plan for the UK LOC.
Use strong business insight and data to identify people-related risks, opportunities, and interventions that improve performance.
Prioritize HR initiatives based on strategic impact, cost, risk, and short- vs long-term trade-offs, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and governance.
Lead and support large-scale change and transformation with clear people and change plans.
Diagnose change needs using data and systemic thinking, designing integrated solutions that help leaders and teams understand, embrace, and embed change.
Coach and influence senior leaders to effectively lead change, balancing business outcomes with people impact and risk.
Partner with leaders to identify current and future talent and capability needs, ensuring robust succession and talent pipelines for critical roles.
Translate enterprise talent and leadership strategies into interventions that build high-performing, future-ready teams.
Coach and challenge senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and talent development.
Shape and champion a culture that supports the UK Commercial strategy and GSK values, promoting an inclusive and high-performance environment.
Use organizational insight to identify culture strengths, risks, and opportunities and convert these into targeted actions.
Support leaders to build clear engagement strategies and understand the impact of their behaviors on culture and employee experience.
Develop and implement workforce and capability plans that ensure the right skills, resources, and structures are in place to deliver the commercial agenda.
Use organizational design and effectiveness principles to improve clarity of roles, accountability, decision-making, and ways of working.
Apply data and analytics to diagnose organizational issues, assess options, and track progress against agreed outcomes.
Manage relationships with employee representative bodies and ensure UK consultation and ER obligations are met with genuine engagement.
Provide expert guidance on ER and HR governance, partnering with specialist teams to manage escalations and mitigate risk in line with GSK policies and UK employment law.
Work with Reward partners to shape local reward and retention approaches that attract, engage, and retain a high-performing workforce.
Partner across the HR model to bring the HR operating model to life, reducing unnecessary customization and championing standard tools and processes.
Build credible, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and constructively challenging thinking with an enterprise mindset.
Represent HR as a strategic function, contributing to the shaping of business and people agendas.

Requirements

Significant experience as an HR Business Partner supporting senior business leaders, ideally within a large, complex, matrixed organisation.
Demonstrable experience leading or closely supporting organizational transformation, with direct experience of the UK employment/organizational landscape.
Experience delivering interventions across a range of HR activities including leadership development, talent management, building high-performing teams, workforce planning, and performance management.
Experience partnering with and/or managing employee representative forums, including Information & Consultation Forums (I&CF).
Strong track record of translating global or enterprise-level talent strategy into local execution.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence and gravitas to challenge senior leaders constructively.
Strong understanding of UK employment law and its practical application in a commercial setting.

Skills

Business Acumen
Cultural Change Management
Data Analysis
Digital Fluency
Leadership Training and Development
Organizational Development (OD)
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Resource Planning
Talent Management

Location

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Level

About the Company

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.
We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines.
We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders, and our people.

Equal Opportunity

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.