HR Manager Employee Relations

GlaxoSmithKline; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 85,000

Job description

Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date: Mar 14 2025

As Employee Relations Manager/Professional you will be responsible for providing employee relations consultancy and advice to Human Resource (HR) functions. You will also develop and maintain HR guidance and documentation to ensure compliance and consistency across the business, while leading and driving standardization and simplification.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

In this role you will

• Lead the development and implementation of people policies in collaboration with the business
• Responsible for research, benchmarking, and drafting policies and process
• Lead the alignment on policies and processes
• Ensure guidance and standard processes are monitored and maintained to ensure compliance and consistency, while leading and driving standardization and simplification where the opportunity exists
• Provide consultation and advice to HR on policy, process, and employee relations matters
• Interpret people policies and support the resolution of any associated employee relations issues
• Monitor and inform on strategic policy and process development by taking into consideration internal and external practices
• Develop and deliver education and training for line leaders and HR professionals on policy, employment law, and employee relations matters
• Serve as the Secretary to the European Employee Consultation Forum and Operating Sub-Committee

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or proven HR operations/policy experience
• HR operation experience and project management skills
• Experience in policy development and implementation

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of employment legislation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong presentation skills
• Proven ability to effectively use interpersonal skills and influencing techniques with leaders at all levels of the organisation
• Proven ability to identify and understand issues, problems, and opportunities and make recommendations for solutions

Closing Date for Applications – 24th March 2025 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

Why GSK?

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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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.

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 neurodiversity, 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.