Senior Manager

Site Name: India - Karnataka - Bengaluru

Posted Date: Nov 5 2025

Job Purpose: We are seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Manager to help us design and develop a strategic initiate to evolve our recruitment delivery model, considering opportunities to drive experience and service delivery for global markets. This role could be responsible for leading a varied team of Recruiters, Sourcers, Insights professionals. Ensuring the team delivers successful attraction, identification, qualification and placement of talent internationally. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in recruitment, team leadership, and talent marketing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of Recruiters providing guidance, support, and development to ensure high performance.
• Oversee the evolution of our recruitment delivery model, ensuring effective talent attraction strategies and data-driven insights to support recruitment efforts globally.
• Support the development and implementation of innovative recruitment strategies to support the evolution of GSK's recruitment model.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand staffing needs and provide strategic recruitment solutions.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team, encouraging the adoption of best practices and new technologies.
• Utilize talent pools, succession planning data, and marketing insights to proactively identify potential candidates for open and future positions.
• Drive the development and execution of internal recruitment management, leveraging in country teams to drive experience.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience by maintaining clear communication and providing timely feedback throughout the recruitment process.
• Monitor and analyze recruitment metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of internal hiring strategies and make data-driven recommendations for improvement.
• Ensure team maintains accurate and up-to-date records of recruitment activities and candidate information in the applicant tracking system (ATS).

• Meet/exceed key performance indicators (KPI), such as time to fill, candidate quality, candidate experience, and cycle times.

• Stay informed about industry trends and best practices in internal recruitment, talent marketing, and sourcing.

• Continuously ensure the team invests time in expanding knowledge base as industry standards and trends change and shift.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of work experience in Recruitment, which includes a minimum of 5 years' experience managing Recruitment globally.
• At least 5 years' experience in leading and managing teams.
• It would be an advantage if you have experience of managing a Source, screen and presentation and/or Recruitment Marketing globally.
• Agile mindset, creative outlook, team management skills
• Hands-on with Microsoft Office & Google Suite tools including Excel, Powerpoint, ATS tools - Workday.
• Proven ability to lead and inspire a team to achieve goals and objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Why GSK?

• Opportunity to contribute to a leading global healthcare company.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Professional development and career growth opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

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- to discuss your needs.

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