Human Rights Manager

This role sits in the Responsible Business team within Global Affairs. The team’s accountabilities include shaping our Responsible Business strategy, governance and insights; delivering GSK’s Responsible Business reporting and annual performance rating; understanding relevant external trends and regulation; responses to investor ratings / indices; and investor engagement; and shaping GSK’s human rights approach.

The Human Rights Manager will play a critical role in strengthening GSK’s commitment to respecting human rights across its global operations, supply chain, and business relationships. This role supports the continuous development, implementation, and monitoring of GSK’s human rights strategy in alignment with international standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), ILO Conventions, and relevant emerging regulations including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

The ideal candidate is an experienced human rights practitioner with strong analytical skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to influence across a complex, multinational organisation. You will also have an interest in the broader responsible business agenda and will have the opportunity to support such work across the team.

You will have experience of working in a large, complex business, and have detailed knowledge of responsible business issues, human rights and the fast-evolving external landscape, and be able to frame these issues in terms of their impact on the pharmaceutical industry.

• Support the development and implementation of GSK’s human rights approach, policies, due diligence and risk management.
• Have a good understanding of responsible business topics and the ability to flex across different areas of work to support the team.
• Conduct horizon scanning to identify emerging human rights risks, regulatory developments, and best practices.
• Monitor and report on human rights performance in line with relevant frameworks and legal requirements.
• Conduct human rights risk assessments across the business and with third parties to identify gaps and help develop controls with risk owners.
• Work with cross-functional teams (Procurement, Legal & Compliance, Sustainability, Global Supply Chain, HR) to embed due-diligence processes and improve risk management.
• Build strong internal partnerships to promote awareness and ownership of human rights responsibilities.
• Participate in multi-stakeholder initiatives to advance industry-wide human rights standards.
• Help to develop and deliver human rights training for core team members across the business.
• Track performance indicators and prepare internal and external reports, including modern slavery statements.
• Help GSK to understand, identify and mitigate potential existing and emerging human rights risks.

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

• Experience in human rights, responsible business, supply chain, or related roles.
• Strong working knowledge of the UNGPs, OECD Guidelines and related global human rights frameworks.
• Familiarity with existing and emerging regulations (e.g., CSDDD and modern slavery laws).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into actionable insights.
• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking, project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Preferred: experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or large multinational corporate environment.

Closing date for applications: 16th February 2026.

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.

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