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We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We’re proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we’re looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition.\nThe Workforce Strategy & Talent Manager leads workforce planning, organisation design and capability strategy across DPTF (Digital Platforms and Technology Foundations). The role sets out the capabilities the function needs to deliver its strategy, designs the organisation and the roles that hold them, owns the location and sourcing mix, and identifies the capability gaps and talent risks that would stop the strategy landing.\nThe role owns the shape of the organisation and its capability. The funded establishment and its cost sit with the Director, Business Operations, and the two are kept reconciled. It partners closely with HR, with platform and domain leadership, and with the Change, Comms & OCM Manager where workforce change affects people directly.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop the DPTF workforce and skills strategy, setting out the capabilities the function needs and whether it will build, buy or partner for each.\nLead workforce planning across DPTF, analysing demand, supply and skills to translate the functional strategy into the shape of organisation required to deliver it.\nDesign and advise on organisation options for the function - including role definitions, spans and layers, and the design of new capabilities as they are introduced.\nOwn the location and sourcing mix, setting where roles sit and which work is insourced, co-sourced or outsourced, and keeping that consistent with the agreed sourcing strategy.\nIdentify capability gaps, talent risks and succession needs across the function, including single points of dependency and skills DPTF will need but does not yet hold, working with HR and leadership on the pipeline behind critical roles.\nEstablish skills frameworks, career pathways and capability development plans, and drive learning and upskilling against the capabilities that matter most to the strategy, including AI fluency across the function.\nMonitor labour market dynamics and future skills trends across the locations DPTF operates in, so that workforce plans reflect what the function can realistically hire and retain.\nPartner with HR on workforce policy, recruitment, consultation and the people aspects of organisational change.\nWork with the Director, Business Operations so that workforce plans and the funded establishment reconcile, with the shape and capability of the organisation owned here and the budgeted positions and their cost owned there.\nProvide workforce insight to the DPTF Leadership Team, covering capability, attrition, vacancy, skills coverage and talent risk.\nSupport workforce transformation as the operating model changes, including the transition of roles and capability into the new structure.\nUse AI and analytics to accelerate skills mapping, workforce modelling and scenario planning.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organisational Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent experience. \nDemonstrated experience in workforce planning, organisation design, talent strategy or HR business partnering, ideally supporting a technology function.\nProven experience translating a functional strategy into a workforce plan and an organisation design.\nExperience designing roles, spans and layers for a large function, including entirely new capabilities.\nExperience setting or applying a location and sourcing strategy across insourced and outsourced delivery.\nExperience identifying capability gaps and building the skills frameworks, career pathways and learning response to them.\nExperience partnering with HR through organisational change, including consultation.\nPreferred Qualifications\nProfessional certifications such as CIPD or an equivalent HR qualification.\nStrong analytical skills, able to model workforce scenarios and interpret skills, vacancy and attrition data.\nExperience interpreting labour market and future skills data and reflecting it in workforce plans.\nFamiliarity with workforce analytics and with AI enabled tooling for skills mapping and scenario modelling.\nSound judgement on organisation design, balancing capability, cost and manageability.\nExcellent stakeholder management across HR, Finance and domain leadership.\nDiscretion and care when working with information about individuals and their roles.\nAbility to influence across the domains without direct authority.\nWork Arrangements:\nThis role offers a hybrid working model, with a mix of on-site and remote work. Fully remote or home-working arrangements are not available for this role.\nClosing Date for Applications - 1 November 2026 EOD\nPlease take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. \nWhen applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.\nSkills\nAgile Methodology, Capability Management, Capability Mapping, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis, Design Thinking, HR Business Partnering, HR Business Partnership, Location Strategy, Operating Models, Organizational Design, Organizational Structures, People Analytics, Prioritization, Project Management, Role Design, Scenario Modeling, Skills Gap Analysis, Strategic Workforce Planning, Strategy Deployment, Succession Planning, Talent Strategy, User Experience (UX), Workforce Planning, Workforce TransformationWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK 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.\nPeople 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.\nGSK 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.\nWe 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.\nShould you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at  where you can also request a call.\nPlease note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK 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 GSK's 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 businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nPlease note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. 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