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  4. Clinical Trial Project Management Industrial Placement London 2025
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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

  • Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
  • Communication (written & verbal)
  • Time management
  • Problem-solving
  • Networking
  • Data analysis and management
  • Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

Education required

To apply for this placement, you must be:

  • Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Biology, Biomedical Sciences or related
  • Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.

Other requirements

  • You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.
  • If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.

Language requirement

  • Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected start date

  • September 2025

Duration

  • 1 year (approximately)

Salary

  • A salary of £27,000 plus a bonus.

The role

Overview of the department

This is a unique opportunity to work within the Global Clinical Operations – Data Standards and Management group within GSKs Research & Development organisation. Your role will involve the management of clinical trial study data and liaising with global study teams to ensure high quality SDTM (Study Data Tabulation Model) datasets are delivered per study timelines.

Within this role you will be part of a friendly and dynamic team who will provide you with training, support, and guidance, which will allow you to build an understanding of the end-to-end data flow of clinical trials. You will also gain hands-on experience in project management, including management of study deliverables, timelines, study team oversight, and knowledge of industry data standards, including SDTM (Study Data Tabulation Model).

You will learn how to write mapping specifications which map source data from the data collection database (Veeva) through to standardised SDTM data. Finally, you will learn how to annotate an electronic case-report form (eCRF).

Key placement activities

Working alongside the Clinical Data Managers and Clinical Programming to ensure high quality SDTM data is delivered as per regulatory expectations.

  • Using a variety of different databases and systems to support a variety of colleagues who work in clinical trials both in the UK and globally, e.g. Data Management, Clinical Operations, Clinical Programmers, and Statisticians.
  • Develop your disease area knowledge by working across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology, respiratory and HIV. You will need to understand the scientific protocols for each of the trial that you support (a clinical protocol contains the objectives, science behind the trial, methods etc. of the clinical trial).
  • Join various groups and committees at GSK which organise events, charity days and work with science in schools and develop a series of skills including organisation, teamwork by being exposed to more people working in different departments of the company.
  • Gain a broad understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and join other students on day trips to other local GSK sites and business units to understand the functions performed there.

Application process

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

  • Eligibility Form
  • World of GSK Online Assessment
  • Written Assessment
  • Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

Apply now!