Sustainability Manager

Site Name: UK - London - Brentford

Posted Date: Apr 30 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.

Role : Sustainability Manager

Job Purpose

As part of the Global Tax team, this role is required to drive and manage implementation of new Environmental and Sustainability measures across GSK, from initial identification (“horizon-scanning”), including mediation/lobbying if appropriate, all the way through to embedding necessary processes and compliance measures into the appropriate teams in the relevant business.

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

Strategic/coordination

• Establish and agree RACI for ongoing responsibility of current measures and future developments,
• Keeping TLT and wider business key stakeholders updated of ongoing developments and status of projects,
• Liaise with Corporate Government Affairs (CGA) and other teams where needed to manage any lobbying/responses to consultations that are necessary,
• Engaging with peers to discuss industry and wider challenges of complying with measures in this space,
• Meeting regularly with the Sustainability and ESG teams to ensure Tax concerns are represented,
• Input into ongoing measure scanning for future developments, including collating and maintaining a regular cross-disciplinary group to discuss these measures.

Implementation/projects

• Leading the implementation of new measures, from initial identification through to embedding of processes into the relevant business across GSK,
• Driving continuous improvement activities, such as data analysis and reporting,
• Coordinating Tax inputs into ongoing tech project regarding a holistic data solution for these measures.

Compliance

• Oversee the ongoing compliance relating to new and existing measures, including coordinating the gathering of reports and pulling data needed (in collaboration with consultants where necessary, working in conjunction with Tax Services).

Why you?

We are looking for professionals with the following skills to help us achieve our goals:

Basic Qualification:

• Minimum BSc/BA/equivalent in Trade Compliance, Logistics, Taxation, Sustainability or related discipline.
• Experience in successful delivery of similar sustainability projects with large businesses across multi-disciplinary teams

Preferred experience:

• Maintain a high level of integrity while balancing multiple priorities and responsibilities,
• Experience working in driving projects that have broad stakeholder engagement across a number of disciplines in large corporations,
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels both internal and external to GSK,
• Sense of urgency, flexibility, and accountability,
• Attention to detail,
• Must be a committed team player prepared to work in and embrace a team-based culture,
• Provide expertise necessary to train site personnel,
• Open to work in international environment that may require some travel within North America and Europe per business need.

job application End Date : 5th May

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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