Director, Corporate Responsibility

Job description

Site Name: UK - London - Brentford
Posted Date: Apr 24 2024
We're excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we're building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it'll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive.

Director, Corporate Responsibility - 12-month Fixed Term Contract

GSK is a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company that combines both individual talent and technical resources to support our mission to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

We have an exciting opportunity for a 12-month FTC for an experienced corporate responsibility professional to join GSK's reputation and responsible business team.

You will be joining a high performing team who are truly leaders in their field. You will demonstrate the ability to drive change in an organisation, influence, and meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. You will have experience of working in a large, complex business, and have detailed knowledge of responsible business issues, human rights and the fast-evolving external reporting landscape.

This role sits in the Responsible Business team within Global Affairs. The team's accountabilities include ESG strategy, governance and insights; delivering GSK's ESG reporting and understanding relevant external trends and regulation; responses to investor ratings/indices; ESG investor engagement; and oversight of human rights.

Responsibilities will include:

Human rights

• Overseeing GSK's human rights programme, working with relevant business functions to deliver against the agreed action plan, including impact assessments.
  
• Delivering annual human rights update to the GLT and Board, along with relevant reporting including GSK's Modern Slavery Act Statement.
  
• Working with external advisors to monitor relevant legislation and agree actions to ensure GSK is compliant with legislation.
  
• Keeping up to date with relevant external human rights developments and participating in external working groups such as the BSR Human Rights group.
  

ESG Performance

• Develop annual metrics for GSK's ESG Performance Ratings (a corporate KPI).
  
• Work with the ESG reporting hub in finance to ensure high quality updates for the ESG Performance Rating are reported to GLT and Board in timely manner.
  
• Complete ESG surveys, including the Workforce Disclosure Initiative and other investor related indices.
  
• Collaborate with investor relations to deliver quarterly ESG content for press release and relevant senior manager briefings.
  
• Develop ESG messaging and briefings for senior leaders, including preparation for investor meetings, and working with IR to respond to investor queries.
  

Horizon scanning

• Stay well informed on ESG trends and insights and share with internal stakeholders to improve responsible business practices.
  
• Oversee the monitoring of the ESG regulatory reporting landscape to stay ahead of legislation.
  
• Oversee relevant reporting regulatory gap assessments/actions where needed.
  

Why you?
We are looking for an experienced responsible business professional who has proven experience working in an ESG team.

• Proven experience of delivering ESG work
  
• Experience delivering human rights impact assessments and programmes across a matrixed organisation
  
• Ability to write papers/updates for senior leadership, including GLT and the Board
  

• Excellent knowledge of ESG reporting requirements
  
• Strong written and verbal communication
  
• Ability to think strategically
  
• Prior experience in a large, complex organisation
  

Interested in Joining the Team?
Please apply via our online portal providing your CV and Cover Letter.
(Please take a personal copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available online post closure of the advert)

Closing Date: 9th May 2024

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.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

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.

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