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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.
About the internship
Are you an undergraduate student that has an interest in learning how/being part of a team that helps GSK communicate with our people and the outside world?
Our Communications and Government Affairs (CGA) function in GSK builds engagement and belief in GSK and its purpose, strategy, and culture – internally and externally.
In CGA, you will have the opportunity to protect and enhance our reputation, ensure our story is told accurately and consistently bring external viewpoints into the company. CGA has a critical role in growing and supporting the GSK business on our long-term priorities of innovation, performance, and trust.
Develop your career
A role in communications involves giving GSK a voice and effectively communicating and engaging with different audiences both inside and outside of our organisation. It gives you the opportunity to build your skills in analysis, presentation, writing, advocacy, and storytelling. It helps with critical thinking as you decide the best way to convey important information to your audiences in the most suitable way.
The programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. Your work will be stretching, but we will support you every step of the way with formal and informal learning, as well as coaching and mentoring. You will improve your communication, analytical and influencing skills, alongside gaining commercial awareness working for a multi-national company at our head office.
If you are a student with the talent and ambition to engage others and be a trusted partner to the CGA organisation, apply now and become one of our Industrial Placement students.
More information about the teams in CGA
Our placements offer you the opportunity to work with one of our CGA teams, such as Digital Channels and Communications (UK & US), Early Science & Technology Communications, Emerging Markets, European Commercial Communications, Global Health, Internal Engagement Communications, Research and Development Communications, Reputation and Responsible Business, and UK Commercial Communications and Government Affairs (CGA) to support the communications requirements of the business both internally and/or externally.
Roles available
Please read below about the X different locations/roles we are recruiting for across our Industrial Placements. Please note, these are distinct placements and so when you apply you will be able to select preferences of where you would like to be placed if successful. We will accommodate your preference where possible.
Role/Location 1: Communications teams
Our communications teams aim to give GSK a voice by effectively communicating to our GSK people, shareholders, and patients by engaging, inspiring and informing people inside and outside of our organisation.
How do we do this? By coming up with and delivering clear and consistent messages to employees, patients, healthcare professionals, shareholders, investors, partners, the media, and the public.
Role/Location 2: Digital Channels and Communications team
GSK needs brilliant digital channels and content to drive reputation and help build belief in the future of the company, support business performance and positively impact the lives of patients. The Digital team is responsible for increasing GSK’s digital presence by creating, publishing, and measuring content on external and employee channels including the GSK.com global corporate web estate; social channels – Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube; and internal news channels.
A placement in the digital team provides an opportunity to learn from channel and content experts across GSK as well as digital agency partners and become proficient in web editing, digital quality and accessibility, social channel publishing, and measurement reporting. All with an audience-first mindset to bring our story and visual identity to life online.
Role/Location 3: Emerging Markets team
In our Performance Emerging Markets (PEM) team you have an opportunity to be part of a dynamic, diverse, and fast-paced part of the organisation comprising 78 markets around the world. We are focused on supporting expanded access to our innovative and established medicines and vaccines by working closely with the markets to deliver impactful communications plans and projects, and external stakeholder engagements. In this role, you will also gain issues management experience and support the regional leadership team with internal engagement.
Role/Location 4: Global Health team
You have an opportunity experience being a part of the Global Health Impact Partnership team. As a business, we aim to have a high impact on global health by using our scientific knowledge to reduce disease burden, especially in the world’s poorest populations. Our focus is on infectious and neglected tropical diseases, with particular attention to Tuberculosis, Malaria and AMR (Anti-Microbial Resistance). The placement in Impact Partnerships will allow you to be part of incredible projects, including support for programme coordination and administration for initiatives with NGO/charity partners that help make our medicines more accessible in less developed countries, assisting with product donations during disease outbreak or natural disaster, as well as raising awareness to engage and communicate our impact with employees.
Role/Location 5: Reputation and Responsible Business team
You will have the opportunity to work across the whole of the Reputation and Responsible Business team, which helps build our reputation, maintain employee pride, and build confidence among investors, focusing on the following areas:
- Understanding our reputation, e.g., measure how our reputation changes among key audiences, provide insights to help build us a stronger reputation and to influence how we describe our company.
- Providing advice on the things our company should do to be a leading responsible business with strong ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) credentials.
- Engaging with investors interested in how we perform as a responsible business.
- Leading CGA advice and support on two areas that are key to our responsible business story – Global Health and Sustainability.
- Establishing and then delivering Charitable Investments in the UK and the US that make a real difference.
Role/Location 6: UK Commercial CGA
UK Commercial is the local operating company for GSK in its home country. A placement in the Communications and Government Affairs team here provides an opportunity to get close to our work to deliver our medicines and vaccines to people in the UK. The team looks after internal engagement for our people in UK Commercial, delivers disease awareness campaign, product communications and advocacy plans for policy changes in the UK to enable more people to benefit from innovation in healthcare. The industrial placement student in this team would have accountability for several important activities for our internal engagement as well as opportunity to get involved with exciting external Communications and Government affairs projects.
Whatever your role, you will have the opportunity to work with and learn from CGA colleagues across the business and all over the world.
Who are we looking for?
Someone who is:
- interested in GSK’s business and aligned with our purpose, strategy, and culture.
- interested in and has skills in writing, researching, analysing, interpreting, critical thinking and effectively and clearly communicating information.
- interested in the external environment and its impact to business.
- curious, self-motivated, and courageous in suggesting new ideas and ways forward
- an active team member, with the ability to work under pressure but be energised by teamwork.
- organised and accountable to deliver your projects and outputs to a high standard and to deadline.
- motivated to accept new challenges that provide learning and stretch outside of your comfort zone.
What can you expect?
- 12-month job assignment across the CGA function that could be in local, regional, or global roles working on communication strategies and plans to develop your skills and knowledge of internal and external communications, digital communications, and global health.
- to develop your writing and briefing skills for internal and external audiences.
- to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop communication materials, including key messages, campaign materials, briefing materials, visual/video assets for different audiences and on a variety of channels.
- to research, monitor, analyse and interpret information that helps you understand healthcare trends and external insights that impact our business.
- to learn how to manage projects and effectively prioritise tasks and understand the business-critical role of CGA.
- to have the opportunity to work in a multi-cultural setting and gain experience navigating a global organisation.
What do we offer you?
- Salary of £23,400, plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs.
- On-the-job experience, training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- 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
- 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
