Development Lead

Position: Employee Experience & Development Lead
GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.

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.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSKJob Purpose At GSK Barnard Castle, we are focused on building a high-performing, inclusive and accountable culture that enables our people to deliver exceptional outcomes for patients. The Employee Engagement & Culture Transformation Lead will play a key role in shaping and enabling the site’s culture transformation agenda, helping leaders and teams embed the behaviours, standards and ways of working needed to support sustainable business performance, compliance and engagement.

About the Role This is an exciting opportunity to lead the coordination and delivery of the Barnard Castle culture transformation roadmap in a site-based role, working on site five days per week. Working in close partnership with the Site Leadership Team, HR, Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Employee Resource Groups, employee representatives, trade union representatives and change champions, you will help translate site ambition into practical plans, measurable actions and visible behavioural change.

You will act as an integrator, facilitator and constructive challenger across the site, ensuring culture activity is embedded into business priorities and governance routines rather than operating as a standalone programme.

Culture outcomes remain owned by line leaders and the Site Leadership Team. This role enables, coordinates, measures and challenges progress to ensure sustainable change and clear business impact.

Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the Barnard Castle Culture & Accountability Framework, translating Site Director and Site Leadership Team ambition into a practical multi-year culture roadmap.

Define, embed and reinforce clear behavioural expectations aligned to GSK values, site priorities, leadership behaviours, standards, accountability and disciplined execution.

Integrate culture initiatives into business priorities, governance routines, Tier meetings, Site Leadership Team reviews, business reviews and performance improvement plans.

Establish and maintain governance rhythms, culture metrics, risks, actions and improvement plans with clear ownership, due dates, escalation routes and quarterly Site Leadership Team culture reviews.

Use data and insight to connect culture indicators with business outcomes, including engagement, leadership effectiveness, action closure, quality culture and inspection readiness.

Partner with senior leaders, department heads and first-line leaders to embed leadership expectations, strengthen coaching capability and improve performance conversations.

Support ownership of standards, recognition, consequence management, escalation discipline, cross-functional collaboration and accountability for delivery, while constructively challenging inconsistent behaviours or ways of working.

Design and enable employee voice, inclusion and engagement mechanisms including listening sessions, focus groups, pulse surveys and engagement campaigns.

Work with HR, Internal Communications, Employee Resource Groups, employee representatives, trade union representatives and change champions to support visible action from employee feedback.

Support a speak-up culture, psychological safety and early risk escalation while coordinating evidence-based interventions focused on accountability, ownership, leadership behaviours, inclusion, wellbeing, team effectiveness, change adoption and culture improvement.

Basic Qualifications and Skills We are looking for professionals with strong change leadership, stakeholder management and…