What are the responsibilities and job description for the Workplace & Change Manager position at GSK?
Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Dec 5 2025
At GSK, we are committed to improving the lives of patients and consumers worldwide. Our R&D Engineering Services (RDES) team plays a pivotal role in supporting Technical R&D sites within GSK's Engineering and EHS organisation. We’re looking for a Workplace & Change Manager who will bring strategic expertise to transformative workplace and change initiatives. If you’re passionate about driving impactful change, creating exceptional workplace experiences, and collaborating across teams, this is the role for you!
Key Responsibilities:
As our Workplace & Change Manager, you will:
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Why join us?
This is an exciting time to join RDES as we anticipate significant growth in our global capital portfolio over the coming years. By joining GSK, you’ll contribute to solutions that enable the discovery and development of groundbreaking treatments while helping shape the future of workplace experiences for our R&D technical sites.
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.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com or 0808 234 4391. The helpline is available from 8.30am to 12.00 noon Monday to Friday, during bank holidays these times and days may vary.
Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a UK Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link and scroll to the Careers Section where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Posted Date: Dec 5 2025
At GSK, we are committed to improving the lives of patients and consumers worldwide. Our R&D Engineering Services (RDES) team plays a pivotal role in supporting Technical R&D sites within GSK's Engineering and EHS organisation. We’re looking for a Workplace & Change Manager who will bring strategic expertise to transformative workplace and change initiatives. If you’re passionate about driving impactful change, creating exceptional workplace experiences, and collaborating across teams, this is the role for you!
Key Responsibilities:
As our Workplace & Change Manager, you will:
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand and implement best practices, trends, and innovative workplace experience initiatives.
- Analyse R&D Voice of the Customer (VOC) feedback to inform workplace experience strategies for RDES technical sites.
- Develop RDES’ approach to improve workplace experience as it pertains to R&D’s technical sites and consider implications for lab standards.
- Maintain and prioritize a detailed view of change management needs across RDES projects.
- Provide change management expertise to ensure sustainable, impactful change across RDES’ projects.
- Develop metrics to measure the effectiveness and ROI of workplace experience initiatives and change management strategies.
- Capture learnings from projects and enhance tools and approaches for future improvements.
- Support RDES’ WELL accreditation plans to optimise workplace health and well-being.
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Project Management, Business Administration, or Real Estate Planning.
- Experience leading and supporting change initiatives in complex, multinational environments.
- Familiarity with change management methodologies (e.g., PROSCI or LaMarsh), strong project management abilities, and a dedication to understanding and meeting R&D customer needs.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally across workplace design, facilities operations, Tech, HR, Comms, and change enablement teams.
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and persuasive skills to successfully interact with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to think long-term and strategically while driving solutions forward.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Masters Degree in a related field.
Why join us?
This is an exciting time to join RDES as we anticipate significant growth in our global capital portfolio over the coming years. By joining GSK, you’ll contribute to solutions that enable the discovery and development of groundbreaking treatments while helping shape the future of workplace experiences for our R&D technical sites.
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.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com or 0808 234 4391. The helpline is available from 8.30am to 12.00 noon Monday to Friday, during bank holidays these times and days may vary.
Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a UK Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link and scroll to the Careers Section where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/