Talent Strategy and Insights Director, CoE

Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street

Posted Date: Mar

Talent Strategy and Insights Director The Talent Strategy and Insights Director is responsible for shaping and executing a forward-looking talent strategy that enables business growth and workforce agility. This role leverages AI, analytics, and innovative technologies to drive succession health and organizational capability integrated with our skills strategy. The role will drive succession planning, pipeline development, early talent, and global talent processes. The role holder will act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, leveraging insights and external best practices to shape innovative, high-impact talent solutions that strengthen leadership pipelines and organizational agility.

This is an enterprise Centre of Excellence, Talent Strategy and Insights role focused on succession health, pipeline development, leadership acceleration, underpinned by AI enabled talent intelligence and senior level advisory. It is a specialist individual contributor role, but one that leads complex programmes of work, collaborating closely with cross functional stakeholders and leading project teams and external partners to deliver enterprise outcomes.

Key Responsibilities: Talent Strategy

• Design and shape enterprise wide talent strategy aligned to future business needs and capability shifts.
• Partner with Talent Business Leads to identify talent risks, opportunities, and interventions to shape and develop bespoke and enterprise solutions where appropriate
• Oversee succession planning for critical enterprise roles, using AI to assess pipeline strength and readiness.
• Lead the strategy and design of key talent acceleration programmes (for executive and emerging talent pools)

Talent Intelligence

• Build and use Talent Intelligence to enhance succession planning, leadership readiness, and capability building by leveraging AI and analytics.
• Using established external networks, benchmark internal talent data against external market trends to inform strategic talent decisions.

Internal Mobility & Talent Flow

• Design and implement enterprise wide internal mobility approach to unlock career growth and workforce agility.
• Partner with HR business leaders and Talent acquisition to embed mobility into talent planning processes.

Early in Career Approach

• Lead the strategic design and framework of the early talent agenda, including graduates, interns, and apprentices integrating it into the broader skills agenda to support long term growth.
• Use AI and predictive analytics to identify future skill needs and inform early talent pipeline development.
• Monitor performance, retention, and progression of early talent cohorts to inform continuous improvement and investment.

Operational Excellence & Enablement

• Ensure high quality delivery of enterprise talent projects, including budget oversight, communication planning, and business led implementation.
• Oversee talent processes, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations related to talent data and planning

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, shaping and embedding talent solutions into transformation initiatives.
• Prepare executive level reporting and presentations for talent boards and governance forums.

External Innovation & Partnerships

• Collaborate with external experts and partners to bring cutting edge practices and technologies into GSK's talent ecosystem.

Strategic Work and Workforce planning and organizational effectiveness

• Design and operationalise a workforce planning and org effectiveness frameworks, tools, modelling and governance that enable HRBPs to turn strategy into actionable plans.
• Build HRBP capability through training, coaching, playbooks and dashboards, provide standard methodologies (forecasting, skills gap analysis, scenario and org modelling, succession planning) and supply analytics to inform decisions. Act as the centre led escalation point to monitor adoption, measure impact and ensure consistent policy application.

Why You! We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

Please be aware this not a Talent Acquisition Management role and candidates whose experience has been primarily in Talent Acquisition are unlikely to be a fit.

Key Skills

• Strategic & Analytical Expertise: Apply AI and data analytics to workforce planning and talent management; interpret complex data to inform actionable strategies; leverage assessment and succession tools to guide decisions.
• Future Focused Innovation: Anticipate emerging workforce challenges and design forward looking talent solutions aligned with technological and organizational shifts.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Influence senior stakeholders and lead cross functional teams to drive alignment, accountability, and excellence across talent initiatives.
• Navigating Ambiguity: Operate effectively in dynamic environments, adapting frameworks to evolving business needs and external trends.
• Independent Execution: Own and deliver enterprise level talent initiatives with minimal oversight, balancing strategic vision with operational discipline.

Qualifications and Experience

• Proven track record of driving succession planning, talent assessments, and governance frameworks at a strategic level.
• Worked in a Global matrix organisation
• Delivered interventions from concept through to implementation and impact measurement
• Business value first mindset
• End to end project management
• HR Business Partnering experience is beneficial, given the level of senior stakeholder engagement.

How to apply If this role excites you, please apply with your CV and a short cover letter that highlights your relevant experience and what you would bring to this role. We look forward to hearing from you.

Working Pattern This role is hybrid, with the expectation of min 2 days a week onsite at our central London HQ.

Closing Date: 15th April 2026

What we offer You will join a team focused on meaningful work that supports our mission of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. You will have the opportunity to grow your skills, lead high impact projects and shape how we develop future leaders.

Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK 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.

People 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.

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