Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle
Posted Date: Jan 31 2025
GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.
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 practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
The purpose of the Site Sustainability Lead role is to drive the required cross-functional activities for the Barnard Castle Site to deliver its overall sustainability goals in support of the company sustainability targets.
In this role you will…
1. Manage the overall Site sustainability plan – coordinating the various cross functional workstreams. Coaching and supporting workstream leads to identify/mitigate risks.
2. Be the Site Single Point of Accountability for Sustainability activities ensuring activities are resourced, planned and executed to deliver the overall goals and targets. Any issues and risks to be escalated for support through the appropriate governance and performance management forums.
3. Manage the Communication and Stakeholder Management Plan to ensure compelling, consistent and timely communication of key messages. Create clear messaging for wider audiences.
4. Programme manage the various activities across the Site and ensure clear delivery plans are in place and being executed.
5. Connect regularly with workstream leads, including PMO leads, and hold regular governance meetings to ensure visibility of key milestones and risks are clearly understood, escalated and mitigated to ensure successful implementation of sustainability activities.
6. Accountable for change readiness assessments to ensure the business change plan is comprehensive and aligned to the Site targets. Address any impacts of change prior to deployment.
7. Ensure use of GPS or ADP principles and/or Business Change Management toolkit throughout the programme, increasing the business change capability of the site project team.
8. Liaise with Central Teams and Functions to understand organisational plans and targets, communicate the Barnard Castle Site plans and progress and to leverage support as required.
Why you?
Qualifications & Skills:
1. Passion for sustainability and biodiversity topics and ability to ‘infect’ others with this passion.
2. Demonstrated matrix leadership skills, including balancing delivery of tactical and strategic objectives.
3. Strong programme management experience and proven delivery record.
4. High levels of personal energy with an ability to energise others.
5. Operational experience with knowledge of change management methodology and GPS standards.
6. Ability to work independently, operating in complex and ambiguous situations with high levels of uncertainty.
7. Demonstrated analytical and strategic thinking skills.
8. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence with or without authority across all grade levels.
9. Exceptional communications and presentation skills, able to facilitate interfaces with diverse audiences and synthesize the most critical insights from large amounts of information.
10. Ability to understand, map out and scenario plan the complexities and interdependencies of multiple programmes.
11. Working effectively in large, complex cross functional teams.
12. Demonstrated skills in leading and driving change to deliver improvement initiatives.
13. Focus on output, setting clear goals and tracking realisation to ensure tangible progress and momentum in each workstream.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
1. University Degree or equivalent.
Closing Date for Applications: 14th Feb 2025
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
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