Andy Gosden

Experience

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  REED

  Jan 1990 - Sept 1996

  Senior Business Manager

  Responsible for establishment and management of Reed Technical (at the time, the company's newest division)

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  Technicon Design

  Sept 1996 - May 1997

  Recruitment Manager

  Responsible for the maintenance and growth of the existing worldwide automotive recruitment business through extensive customer liaison and service.

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  GSK

  May 1997 - Jan 2009

  HR Manager/Business Partner

  HR Manager/Business Partner for three R&D groups (UK HR lead for two of them) totalling approximately 420 employees over 7 UK sites. The role involves membership of business leadership teams and a trans-national HR team, coupled with matrix management responsibility for three HR assistants.

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  MedImmune

  Feb 2009 - Sept 2017

  Associate Director, Human Resources

  Associate Director, HR, with specifc responsibility for the support of Research, Clinical and parts of the MBO Cambridge organisation as well as responsibility for supporting three global leadership teams. My role includes ensuring that both the strategic and operational HR activities are effectively rolled out across the parts of the business that I support and includes involvement in generalist, compensation, recruitment and leadership & development activities. I am also a member of the Cambridge Site Leadership Team.Other responsibilities include membership of both cross-country and cross-functional HR and business matrix teams. Show less

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  Kymab Ltd

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2021

  Senior Director, Human Resources/Head of HR

  Kymab is a biopharmaceutical development company based in Cambridge, UK, employing c170 staff and was acquired by Sanofi in April 2021. Appointed as the company’s first Head of HR, specific activities included driving change in Kymab’s engagement, recruitment, learning & development, compensation and talent management efforts.Some specific activities within these areas included:• Supporting organisational design activities in various parts of the business• The redesign of the recruitment process firstly around an RPO model moving to an in-house Talent Acquisition function, • The development and roll out of an Employee Value Proposition to support and drive cultural identity, • Prioritisation of management development including the design of a Leadership Development Programme, • Driving engagement initiatives including surveys and coordinating follow through in specific areas,• The redesign of the compensation framework, creating Market Reference Points for all roles using national salary survey data as a reference, • The introduction of an employee representative forum,• The development and roll out of an Employee Value Proposition to support and drive cultural identity, • The introduction of apprentices into the business.Also, an active member of various external bodies including membership of a Science Industry Partnership (SIP) group developing the 2030 Life Sciences Sector Skills Strategy as well as involvement on BIA working groups. I line managed three members of the HR Generalist function and the two members of the Talent Acquisition team Show less

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  Alchemab Therapeutics Ltd

  Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  Head of HR

  Alchemab is a biotech company based in Cambridge, UK, and Boston, US, employing c65 staff. The company was founded in 2019.As the first Head of HR, I worked with the Management Team to drive the people agenda in tandem with business priorities. Responsibilities/activities included:• Ongoing development of a ‘fit for purpose’ HR function to support UK and US operations,• Offering HR Partnering support to Senior leadership,• Growing the remit of the recruitment role through pipelining ‘hard to source’, passive candidates,• Leading culture development project through development of an Employee Value Proposition, • Supporting the scale up of the US business with the design, development and roll-out of US benefits programme,• Ensure reward/benefits are competitive through salary survey benchmarking and analysis,• Design, development and rollout of Management Development Programme for first-line managers,• Introduction of health and security screening to the company,• Working with Operations group to develop stress and wellbeing risk assessments and policies,• Leading on project to ensure GDPR compliance across the company,• Continuing active membership of HR related projects for external bodies including Science Industry Partnership (SIP) and BIA. Show less

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  PQL HR Consulting Ltd

  Jan 2023 - now

  Human Resources Consultant

  I am an HR Consultant with many years experience across all aspects of HR in the pharma and biotech industries. I am available to support companies on an ad-hoc, project or retained basis, particularly those in start-up or scale-up phase. Specific areas of support include Recruitment, Learning & Development for employees at all levels, HR and Applicant Tracking Systems implementation, Team development using Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Compensation, Culture Development, Performance Management, Policy Design and Implementation, Organisational Design and Employee Relations to name a few. Show less