Job description
Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre, Mexico City Torre Mitikah, Mississauga Milverton Drive, Poznan Grunwaldzka
Posted Date: Apr 8 2025
The Senior Manager, Regulatory Training & Capability Lead is responsible for the development and implementation of effective capability frameworks and training matrices across the GRA organisation, ensuring staff are appropriately trained and competent to perform their roles and remain compliant with external obligations and internal ways of working.
The Senior Manager will collaborate closely with GRA teams to foster a culture of learning and adoption of new ways of working which will benefit employee growth and development and drive a positive business impact.
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.
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In this role you will
* Lead the development of and maintain, a fit for purpose GRA capability framework to ensure staff have the appropriate skill set to perform their role. Design and maintain robust training matrices to ensure staff are efficiently onboarded/trained, compliant and supported.
* Conduct periodic reviews/analyses of the capability framework and training matrices to ensure they remain current and fit for purpose.
* Support the Change/Training Champion Network within GRA to facilitate the collection of feedback and the effective dissemination of information.
* Collaborate with key partners from Written Standards & Learning and Development teams.
* Ensure consistency, clarity, and compliance with GSK’s branding when producing supportive training materials.
* Drive a continuous improvement mindset across the team to ensure the most efficient and optimal processes and tools are being utilised.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* High School / Secondary education in Science or Technical field
* Significant training and capability building experience including onboarding of new staff. Proficiency in using various training tools and methodologies
* Excellent communication skills both oral and written with a proven ability to delivery fit for purpose supportive training materials, matrices.
* Ability and agility to tailor approaches / to the change, ensuring efficiency in delivery and an ongoing focus on value delivery (and to do so across multiple projects if required). Ability to apply problem-solving approaches to unfamiliar areas or challenges and navigate ambiguity
* Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
* Experience of Pharmaceutical drug development and an understanding of global regulatory procedures
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
* Bachelor’s Degree in a Scientific or Technical field
* Understanding of Regulatory Affairs as a function and its core roles & responsibilities, centrally and locally
* A proven capability as a matrix leader with a global mindset and ‘can do’ attitude
* Have a flexible approach, readily adapting to changing circumstances and new opportunities. Challenges and questions ways of working to seek improved processes.
* Ability to establish team goals and use these to seek improved performance; sets challenging but realistic targets.
* Able to think creatively to source information relating to role and the interaction with the broader regulatory function.
* Strong sense of urgency, able to effectively prioritize such that key issues or emerging high priority matters are handled in a timely and effective way.
Closing Date for Applications – 30 April 2025 (COB)
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At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery. We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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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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