Behavioural Science Consultant – People Data Analytics
Job Summary
We are looking for someone passionate about enhancing people strategy and decision-making across GSK through scientifically rigorous employee insights behavioural science research and data-led storytelling.
The People Data Analytics (PDA) team in GSK is a global team with a purpose to combine science and technology to drive talent decisions across the company. As a close-knit function of data scientists behavioural scientists data analysts engineers and employee listening experts we are working to find new ways of understanding and improving the employee experience to help our colleagues globally get Ahead Together.
About the role
As a Behavioural Science Consultant you will oversee projects from end-to-end leading cross-functional teams of data scientists behavioural scientists and data engineers. You will be scoping designing and delivering analytics projects partnering closely with business and HR leaders. This will involve you both project managing as well as getting hands-on with data analysis and data gathering of quantitative and qualitative data. You will be responsible for delivering science-backed compelling and actionable findings back to the business leaders based on the projects you deliver.
You will also act as a subject-matter expert on large scale employee surveys including survey design for both behavioural and engagement surveys and leadership assessment. You will also deeply understand good survey analysis and how to take very large scale survey data-sets to make actionable insights for senior leaders and HR.
You will bring an outside-in view as a behavioural scientist connecting with senior leaders across the business to advise on scientific insights and best-practice to people strategy as well as finding new opportunities where people data analytics and behavioural science can help improve business decision-making.
In this role you will get an opportunity to investigate and deliver data and insights across all parts of the employee lifecycle such as leadership inclusion & diversity performance hybrid ways-of-working and culture.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Project manage agile functional teams working with data scientists data engineers and other behavioural scientists to scope and deliver analytics projects
- Leverage behavioural science and data science methodologies to gather analyse and interpret employee survey and people data insights such as our global engagement and culture survey or our leadership feedback One80 survey
- Translate complex data and analysis into relevant understandable and actionable insights for HR partners and business leaders to enhance business outcomes
- Design and deliver insights that clearly communicates research findings and recommendations to both non-technical and technical audiences in HR and in the business
- Work as a trusted subject-matter-expert to stakeholders on scientific insight and best-practice for people data and behavioural science
- Contribute to thought leadership on how we can continually improve our offering of behavioural science data science and people analytics
- Contribute to efforts to develop a data-driven culture across all GSK HR professionals
- Maintains active watch on external research proposing how latest research can support GSKs goals
Basic qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as psychology economics data science or similar
- Experience in a relevant business context either in-house or as a consultant in behavioural science people strategy people analytics or similar
- Managing stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
- Proven ability to interpret as well as challenge customer needs and translate these into a coherent program of work for data scientists and analyst
- Proven experience in the diagnosis design and delivery of effective behavioural science data science or analytics projects that produce actionable insights
- Skill in developing meaningful narrative descriptions from scientifically sound research including creating understandable reports and presentations
- Experience in data visualisation
- Statistical analysis and advanced understanding of analysis using Excel
- Experience of project management
- Experience within fast-moving complex and demanding environments and with a need to multi-task and deal with ambiguity
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:
- Masters degree in a quantitative social science such as behavioural science behavioural economics data analytics organisational or social psychology or similar
- Experience project managing agile teams of behavioural or data scientists
- Experience working with workforce data and HR platforms such as Workday Qualtrics and Microsoft Viva
- Experience in Python R and/or SQL
- Experience in the Pharmaceutical industry
Closing date for applications COB 13th May 2026
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 were 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.
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