What are the responsibilities and job description for the HRBL, ViiV Healthcare (GSK) position at ViiV Healthcare?
We are fully committed to push through every challenge until HIV/AIDS is eradicated. ViiV has played a significant part in delivering breakthroughs that have turned HIV into a manageable health condition. We offer the largest portfolio of HIV medicines available anywhere, and we continue our work to cater for the widest possible range of needs in response to the HIV epidemic. We are aware of how much is at stake for those affected by HIV and we show up every day 100% committed to the patients. Our work culture is fast-paced, diverse, inclusive, competitive, and caring. But ViiV isn't just somewhere to work - it's a place to belong, an invitation to bring your very best, and a team full of impact-driven team members who are hungry to make a difference.
While we have been improving lives of HIV patients for 30 years, this is an especially exciting time to be at ViiV, as we evaluate novel approaches to treatment and prevention that could further reduce the impact of HIV on individuals and communities.
The Human Resource Business Leader (HRBL) role is an exciting opportunity to join ViiV Healthcare and play a critical role in our purpose to get ahead of HIV together and end the Epidemic. Reporting to the Head of HR for ViiV, this ViiV HRBL role is a member of the ViiV HR Leadership Team and contributes to the design and implementation of the ViiV Healthcare HR strategy. The role is required to provide strategic HR support and be a thought partner to Senior leaders and their leadership teams on organisational and people issues and in diagnosing and deploying appropriate HR interventions to deliver the ViiV Healthcare HR plan.
The HRBL supports a number of business-critical areas for ViiV Healthcare across North America Commercial, and R&D. The role is also the accountable for Leadership Development & DEI for ViiV Healthcare and will lead on various ViiV wide initiatives and projects.
This role will be based out of ViiV Healthcare's US Headquarters in Durham, NC & is eligible for a relocation package.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Building Capability & Talent
Partnering with Senior Leadership Teams to build robust workforce plans to improve quality, breadth, depth and diversity of talent including:
- Using business insight to diagnose present and determine future capability gaps, ensuring plans are in place to address these gaps in support of the ViiV Healthcare Strategy and growth ambition
- Navigation of the internal and external talent resources and benchmarks to ensure robust plans are in place on recruitment and attraction of talent to fill key roles drawing down on external networks and insights where appropriate
Ensure succession plans for all key roles reflect global talent targets
Leadership Development
Coach and counsel senior leaders through insight, feedback and challenge, to enable them to be their most effective in driving business performance and organisational alignment, including:
- Coaching leaders to motivate, focus, care and develop their teams
- Use business partnerships and insight to diagnose business issues and generate solutions
- Coaching and developing senior leaders
- Provide constructive feedback to develop leaders coaching capability of their teams
- Apply critical thinking and sound judgement within the context of the GSK reward strategy, together with reward experts, to balance organization and employee needs to support key attraction, retention and engagement activities.
Culture & Engagement
Understands the business agenda and translate this into the desired culture in an engaging and inclusive way including:
- Use insights to work with senior leaders to develop appropriate engagement strategies
- Embed workforce initiatives which support the desired culture
- Develops leader's capability to understand their role in driving/shifting the culture and engagement across ViiV Healthcare
Inclusion & Diversity
Lead the implementation of ViiV Healthcare Inclusion and Diversity strategy and plan including:
- Develop leader's capability to attract, recruit, manage and develop diverse talent and to recognise the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to the organisation and team
- Coach leaders on how to create an inclusive high performing team environment where people feel comfortable to contribute fully
- Embed fair and equitable practices relating to business activities, and specifically for HR in recruitment, development, pay, reward and promotion
Change Management/Org Design
Lead and drive the efficient delivery of diverse change projects to ensure optimal structures, jobs, work processes and capabilities are in place to enables our strategy including:
- Deploying systematic thinking to proactively diagnose key areas for change across international and functional boundaries
- Partnering with senior leaders to develop a range of options on structure to deliver improved business performance
- Ability to mobilise and align key leaders around change
- Actively leads the employee relations implications of change initiatives
Critical Capabilities
Business Mentality & Acumen
- Ambitious for Patients
- Strong business partnering capabilities that make valuable contributions to business leaders
- Contributes to business decisions, needs and thinking of own function as well as other functions
- Strong skills in analytics and sound decision making
Collaborating & Influencing
- Facilitates discussions to enable and promote people to collaborate across multiple parties to deliver objectives
- Must be confident influencing across all levels of the organisation and in developing key relationships and networks
- Demonstrates an ability to relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people and builds relationships based on mutual trust
Results Orientation
- Action orientated with ability to transform ideas into action
- Sets clear and ambitious performance goals and metrics in delivery of objectives
- Coaches and develops others in support of performance and development
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor's Degree & Global HR experience
- Experience aligning HR strategies to business needs
- Experience working with leadership in a matrixed environment
- Experience connecting the dots across multiple initiatives to shape a coherent plan, drive execution, and lead adoption in a variety of countries and teams.
- Experience problem-solving in diagnosing situations, asking the right questions and developing solutions that will deliver business results.
- Experience championing change across international and functional boundaries to deliver large scale, global/regional transformational, cultural and organizational change projects
- Data analytics experience used to analyze and interpret business and workforce data to develop HR strategy and interventions.
- Experience developing talent, DEI strategies and driving to deliver through business leaders
- Experience in delivering interventions across a range of HR activities including leadership development, talent management, executive coaching, building teams, capability builds and performance management
- Experience with large scale, global/regional transformational, cultural and organizational change projects, improving organizational effectiveness
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- HR experience in Pharmaceuticals/Bio Tech with demonstrated Strong Business Acumen
- Experience developing a strategic and solid understanding of the people challenges that a business may face in competing effectively externally
- Ability to build leaders capability to lead and sustain change
- Sound judgement and high integrity when making decisions at pace.
- Past exposure of operating in fast moving, agile, complex and demanding environments and navigating ambiguity
- Role Model of ViiV Culture: Leadership accountability that serves as a role model to instill and lead the Culture. Demonstrating ambition for patients to deliver what matters better and faster. Ensuring clear Accountability for impact with clear ownership and support for their team and colleagues to succeed. While always ensuring that we do the right thing with integrity and care for the people who count on us. Champion and role model in Inclusion and Diversity
- Desire for excellence, striving for constant improvement and increased performance, with a proven track record of successful business impact
- Strong coaching, influencing and negotiation skills
- Employee relations experience
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Please visit to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.
Why Us?
At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV.
We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between and in 2009, with joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.
Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we're all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.
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