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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.
Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV. Find out more: Our approach to R&D
Data Science Programmer/Analyst
As a Data Science Programmer/Analyst at GSK, you will play a critical role in supporting our clinical research teams by providing programming expertise and support. Under the guidance of experienced professionals within the Biostatistics department, you will gain valuable experience in programming tasks associated with clinical trial reporting. With hands-on training, you will become proficient in programming languages such as SAS and R and will use these to analyse and report clinical trial data.
This placement year will provide you with exposure to industry-standard tools, methodologies, and regulatory requirements while contributing to the advancement of life-changing therapies. You will gain an insight into cutting-edge clinical research and the development processes, with the opportunity to learn from and network with experienced professionals within GSK.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with statisticians and fellow professional programmers to develop datasets, tables, listings and figures to aid clinical trial reporting
- Participate in the development of programs for clinical trial reporting using SAS and R programming languages
- Develop an understanding of CDISC data standards, particularly adhering to ADaM dataset standards
- Conduct quality control checks on clinical trial data, identifying and resolving discrepancies or issues
- Assist in the preparation of documentation, including dataset specifications.
- Opportunities to be involved in and contribute to other non-project initiatives within GSK
- Professional and interpersonal development through on-the-job and online training modules, contributing to future career growth
- Opportunity to support our Business Excellence and Analytics Team, by developing and maintaining tools that lead to key decisions and enable GSK compliance and accelerate pipeline delivery.
What do we offer you?
- Salary of £21,400, plus a bonus (Stevenage) or Salary of £23,400, plus a bonus (GSK House)
- 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
