Workplace & Change Manager

At GSK, we are committed to improving the lives of patients and consumers worldwide. Our R&D Engineering Services (RDES) team plays a pivotal role in supporting Technical R&D sites within GSK's Engineering and EHS organisation. We're looking for a Workplace & Change Manager who will bring strategic expertise to transformative workplace and change initiatives. If you're passionate about driving impactful change, creating exceptional workplace experiences, and collaborating across teams, this is the role for you

Key Responsibilities:

As our Workplace & Change Manager, you will:

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand and implement best practices, trends, and innovative workplace experience initiatives.
• Analyse R&D Voice of the Customer (VOC) feedback to inform workplace experience strategies for RDES technical sites.
• Develop RDES' approach to improve workplace experience as it pertains to R&D's technical sites and consider implications for lab standards.
• Maintain and prioritize a detailed view of change management needs across RDES projects.
• Provide change management expertise to ensure sustainable, impactful change across RDES' projects.
• Develop metrics to measure the effectiveness and ROI of workplace experience initiatives and change management strategies.
• Capture learnings from projects and enhance tools and approaches for future improvements.
• Support RDES' WELL accreditation plans to optimise workplace health and well-being.

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent preferably in Project Management, Business Administration, or Real Estate Planning.
• Experience leading and supporting change initiatives in complex, multinational environments.
• Familiarity with change management methodologies (e.g., PROSCI or LaMarsh), strong project management abilities, and a dedication to understanding and meeting R&D customer needs.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across workplace design, facilities operations, Tech, HR, Comms, and change enablement teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and persuasive skills to successfully interact with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to think long-term and strategically while driving solutions forward.

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

• Masters Degree in a related field.

Closing Date: 11th November (COB)

Why join us?

This is an exciting time to join RDES as we anticipate significant growth in our global capital portfolio over the coming years. By joining GSK, you'll contribute to solutions that enable the discovery and development of groundbreaking treatments while helping shape the future of workplace experiences for our R&D technical sites.

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. 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.

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