HR Site Lead

Role: HR Lead – GSK site in France. You will join the site leadership team to shape people strategy and deliver HR solutions that enable safe, high‑quality, and sustainable site performance. You will coach leaders, drive workforce and talent plans, and lead change with clarity and care.

Responsibilities

Business Strategy

• Shape the business/functional strategy through an understanding of the business, its drivers, concerns & requirements, and providing insight into the people impacts
• Define, develop and deliver the HR Strategy based on organisational needs, business challenges & key metrics
• Adapt HR initiatives based on customer insight and “fit”

Change Management

• Expertise in the implementation of change management tools and techniques to facilitate change and drive performance within the business

Leadership Development and Executive Coaching

• Provide coaching on leadership style to senior leaders – challenging and critiquing
• Ensure all people managers are equipped & able to deliver on their people management responsibilities
• Capability development of leaders

Organisational Design and Development

• Highlight where improvements in organisational efficiency & effectiveness should be made, challenging business thinking
• Support leaders in defining and executing local people plans and driving a transformational people agenda

Succession Planning and Talent Management

• Strategic Workforce planning – ensures future planning on size & shape of the organisation
• Highlight where future capability gaps may lie, facilitate solutions, utilising HR tools available
• Understanding the talent needs of the business and identifying talent issues before they hit the business

Cultural Development

• Develop an environmental, cultural and people agenda which underpins and supports the delivery of the business goals and drives employee engagement
• Work through line managers to manage the ER/IR climate within the business

Reputation and Relationship Management

• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, such as Works Councils, HR COE’s, HR Services and external suppliers to ensure the reputation of GSK remains high and to support an ongoing agenda of process optimisation

Support managers in the delivery of key HR processes

• Provide support, as required, to help managers run HR related processes, eg. SR&B, performance review, etc.
• Operate in an advisory capacity to enable managers to successfully discharge their responsibility around processes such as attendance management, performance management, etc.
• Carry out the HR role in formal disciplinary/grievance processes and appeals

Coaching and development of line managers

• Work with line managers to ensure they have the skills required to be effective ‘people managers’
• Coach line managers so that they understand and can deliver processes related to people without reference to HR, eg. Talent Review, Succession Planning, etc.

Key delivery channel for initiatives developed by the HR Centres of Excellence

• Roll out to line managers and employees appropriate outputs from the CoE’s eg. new bonus plan, new grading scheme, empowerment survey

Respond to complex queries from managers and employees referred by Transactional HR Service

• Provide timely and accurate responses to complex HR queries raised by line managers and employees

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in Human Resources, Business, Law, Psychology, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5‑10 years experience in HR, with proven site or plant HR leadership in an industrial or regulated environment
• Strong knowledge of French labour law and local employee relations practice
• Experience leading organisational change, restructures and consultation processes
• Demonstrable experience coaching senior leaders and building manager capability
• Role is on‑site with a requirement to be regularly present at the site (hybrid working patterns may apply depending on business needs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or recognised HR professional qualification
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech or highly regulated manufacturing environments
• Proven track record working with unions, works councils or formal employee representative bodies
• Strong technical skills with HR systems and workforce analytics
• Project management experience for large, cross‑functional initiatives
• Fluent French and professional working proficiency in English

Success Metrics

• The site has a clear, future‑ready workforce plan aligned to business needs
• Leaders are confident in managing performance, change and people issues
• Employee relations are constructive and managed with low legal or reputational risk
• HR delivery is simple, reliable and supports high quality, safety and productivity
• Talent pipelines and succession plans reduce critical skills risk for the site

GSK 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.