Job Details
Location: UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date: Apr 29 2026
Overview
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.
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 scope, design, and deliver analytics projects, partnering closely with business and HR leaders. This will involve you both project managing and 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 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
- 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 communicate 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
- Maintain active watch on external research, proposing how latest research can support GSK's goals
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's 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 analysts
- 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
- Master's 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
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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