HR Business Partner, Research Technologies and AI​/ML

Job description

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage

Posted Date: Dec 12 2025

An outstanding opportunity is available for a talented individual to join the R&D HR team as an HR Business Partner
. This is a critical global role as it provides HR Business Partnering for Research Technologies and AI/ML
, to the delivery of the R&D strategy.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to support and lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include:

• Leading and Delivering Change: Understand current and future needs of the business. Use data and systemic thinking to diagnose key opportunities for change. Formulate integrated solutions designed to help employees embrace and embed change, while achieving the desired business outcomes. Drive effective delivery of diverse change projects (i.e. complex and global change projects, workforce restructuring, etc.) in support of the business's strategic agenda.
  
  Champion and influence senior leaders to effectively lead change.
• Business Acumen: Apply knowledge and insights on the internal and external business environment in the context of HR activity to improve business performance. Leverage understanding of the bottom-line impact of HR initiatives to prioritise on the basis of strategic impact, cost, risk, and short vs. long term trade-offs. Identify issues and opportunities for business improvements in a people context.
• Culture Development: Coach and influence leaders to develop and enhance engagement strategies tied to business and cultural priorities. Develop leaders' capability to understand how they impact and shift the culture. Ensure they are creating a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Organisational Design and Development: Partner with the business to identify opportunities within their lines to improve organization effectiveness. Use data and analytics to understand the business, identify opportunities for improvement, assess potential solutions and monitor achievement of benefits.
• Workforce and Strategic Capability Planning: Apply business insight to diagnose present and future capability gaps. Support the development and implementation of optimal workforce plans focused on key strategic capabilities required to drive the business.
• Succession planning and Talent Management: Coach leaders to identify, manage and retain a strong talent pipeline. Coach and challenge Sr. leaders to embed best practices and effective succession planning processes. Align succession planning and talent management to the overall workforce strategy. Improve leaders' ability to develop employees to reach their full potential regardless of background or differences.
• HR Governance and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Apply knowledge of operating principles and policies to HR activity to ensure risks are mitigated. Manage escalations and support the business to create a positive employee environment. Escalate appropriately and partner with the Employee Response Center to resolve high risk issues and implement strategies to reduce such issues. Ensure inappropriate behaviors are dealt with in a direct, challenging and tough-minded manner.
• Reward and Retention Strategy: In partnership with Reward experts, apply business acumen and sound judgement within the context of GSK reward strategy to develop and deliver plans which enable the delivery of business priorities. Coach and influence senior leaders to differentiate and reward individuals commensurate with their value and contributions to the business.

Basic Qualifications:

• University/college Diploma or Degree (Human Resources, Business) with demonstrable experience in an HR role with business partnering experience
• Strong HR Generalist experience
• Experience in and strong understanding of the global consultation landscape and process
• Hands‑on experience with supporting transformation changes
• Experience coaching others to deliver complex cultural change agendas
• Experience delivering interventions across a range of HR activities including leadership development, talent management, building high performing teams, capability builds and performance management
• Ability to leverage data and analytics to draw insights and recommend…