Business Change Director

Job Description

Site Name: UK - London - BrentfordPosted Date: Aug 7 2020Are you a Business Change professional seeking your next challenge in your career If so, the Business Change Director role here at GSK could be the perfect opportunity for you! (Please note this is a Fixed Term Contract)As the Business Change Director you will be responsible for reskilling our employees and building internal capability, as part of the Skills Transformation pillar of the GSK Tech Transformation. Your responsibilities will include some of the following:

Responsible for driving measurable, strategic skills development in Tech

Engagement of stakeholders across the global Tech organization.

Drives delivery through a matrix of capability leads and learning cohort leads across Tech.

Responsible for the Tech enterprise learning platform product, value exploitation, and integration into the broader ecosystem of GSK learning and development (partnership with TL&OD and the KeepGrowing campus team).

Responsible for comms and engagement, including use of gamification techniques, in collaboration with the aligned Comms manager.

Responsible for oversight of data and analytics relating to learning activity and progression in GSK Tech, working in close partnership with the workforce performance analytics team.

The person : The job holder needs to be have a strong background in driving transformational change and a performance mindset – driving for results to ensure the Skills Transformation in Tech has a significant impact. To achieve this the job holder needs to have:

Experience in running business change and culture change programmes across a significant global scale in multiple organisations

Experience of building organisational capability. Passionate about life long learning and development.

Strong influencing, engagement and presentation skills - requires cross-enterprise global stakeholder management, alignment of function-level leader activity with enterprise strategic goals, motivation/gamification

Awareness of Agile ways of working, Technology and Digital to build credibility to stakeholders.

Experience in leveraging strategic partners to deliver results.

Proven ability to build high performing teams and address team performance issues

Ability to focus on the things that make a difference and get things done

Proven ability to take responsibility, solve problems and deliver in a challenging, time-sensitive environment.

Ideally will hold a qualification in change management

Why GSKOur values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk

Managing individual and team performance.

Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

Implementing change initiatives and leading change.

Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.

Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.

Developing people and building a talent pipeline.

Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.

Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.

Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

As a company driven by our values of Patient focus, Transparency, Respect and Integrity, we know inclusion and diversity are essential for us to be able to succeed. We want all our colleagues to thrive at GSK bringing their unique experiences, ensuring they feel good and to keep growing their careers. As a candidate for a role, we want you to feel the same way.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 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.Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to discuss any adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities. You can either call us on, or send an emailAs you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSKs commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment busine