Senior Manager - International Recruitment

Job Purpose

You will lead international talent acquisition for GSK from India. You will design and deliver recruitment strategies that attract high-quality candidates across commercial, supply chain, and global support roles. You will work in a global matrix and partner closely with hiring managers, HR leaders, and external partners. We value data-led thinking, clear communication, and a coaching mindset. You will grow professionally while helping GSK unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Responsibilities

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

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for international roles, including sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles using market mapping and proactive sourcing.
• Partner with hiring managers and HR business partners to design role profiles, selection processes and hiring decisions.
• Manage relationships with external vendors, RPO partners and executive search firms to ensure consistent delivery.
• Use recruitment metrics and market insights to improve candidate quality, reduce time to fill and enhance candidate experience.
• Coach and mentor recruiters and sourcers, fostering capability building and continuous improvement.

Why You?

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of end-to-end recruitment experience, including international hiring exposure.
• Experience working in a matrixed global environment and partnering with senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage vendor or RPO relationships.
  Strong stakeholder management and consultative influencing skills.
• Proficiency with ATS tools and common office software.

Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus

• Master’s degree in HR, Business or related field.
• Experience recruiting for commercial, supply chain, or global support functions in pharma, life sciences or FMCG.
• Experience leading a team of recruiters or managing recruitment programs.
• Hands-on experience with recruitment marketing or employer branding campaigns.
• Strong data literacy with experience using recruitment metrics to drive decisions.
• Experience in leadership or executive search and negotiation of offers.

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.

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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