Global Marketing Industrial Placement 2024

Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:

Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree preferably in a Marketing, Science or Life-Sciences discipline.

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: June/July 2024

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £23,400 plus a bonus 

Application Closing: Wednesday 29th November 2023 (this is the date we anticipate the job will be removed from the website and no longer taking new applications).

Please note these dates are subject to change as we may close this vacancy when we have enough applications. We recommend that you apply and complete all stages of your application as soon as you can, so we can consider your application.

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.

Please read below about the 3 different roles we are recruiting for across our Global Marketing Industrial Placements. Please note, these are distinct placements and so when you apply you will be able to select your preferences of where you would like to be placed if successful. We will accommodate your preference where possible.

Role 1: Global Pharma Marketing Operations (GPMO)

Global Pharma Marketing Operations operates across the top ten countries as well as supporting key regions like Emerging Markets or Greater China & Intercontinental, making it a truly global function. Our invaluable team does more than Marketing– they help bring innovation and value to the entire organisation.

Within Global Pharma Marketing Operations, we are creating a new programme to upskill and develop all our teams (in Marketing, Sales and Medical) to create personalised, interconnected customer experiences for our health-care professionals around the world.

Working with a variety of highly skilled people, you could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and initiatives. You could be creating the communications plan for leaders to understand and use the development programme with their teams or be drafting job descriptions of the future. 

Please read below about the key elements of the role:

• Discover how marketing in a global pharmaceutical company really works
• Collaborate with key functions in the organisations like technology, medical and sales
• Gain transferable skills to improve your studies and career prospects
• Gain in-depth insights into the GSK GPMO business function
• Experience development opportunities, including formal training that will equip you to become a leader of the future and inspire action through influencing and negotiating

Role 2: Global Product Strategy (Lupus Specialist)   

GSK is focused on the research and development of medicines for immune-mediated diseases, such as lupus, that are responsible for a significant health burden to patients and society. Our world-leading scientists are focusing research on the biology of the immune system with the aim to develop immunological-based medicines that have the potential to alter the course of inflammatory disease.

Global Product Strategy sets the vision and long-term strategy for our assets at GSK. As we transform GSK, we build strong relationships and connectivity with R&D to lead Global Product strategy. Within Specialty we are responsible for Lupus and the responsibilities include driving competitive product profiles, lifecycle innovation, competitive strategy, execution and brand performance across GSK in all markets.

Having delivered consecutive years of double-digit growth for GSK, we are a key growth driver for GSK, with some exciting lifecycle innovation in the pipeline.

Working with a variety of highly skilled people, you could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and initiatives including but not limited to external omnichannel campaigns, branding work, internal communications, cross-functional project management, congress and peer to peer events development.

Please read below about the key elements of the role:

• Discover how marketing in a global pharmaceutical company really works
• Collaborate with key functions in the organizations like R&D, technology, medical and sales
• Gain transferable skills to improve your studies and career prospects
• Gain in-depth insights into the GSK GPS business function
• Experience development opportunities, including formal training that will equip you to become a leader of the future and inspire action through influencing and negotiating

Role 3: Global Product Strategy (Eosinophilic Disease Specialist)   

Global Product Strategy sets the vision and long-term strategy for our assets at GSK. As we transform GSK, we build strong relationships and connectivity with R&D to lead Global Product strategy. Within Specialty we are responsible for Eosinophilic Disease (include Severe Asthma) and the responsibilities include driving competitive product profiles, lifecycle innovation, launch strategy, execution and brand performance across GSK in all markets.

Having our medicine launched in over 60 countries with 4 indications now approved in EU and launched in the US working on Nucala will give you exposure to a truly global function.

Working with a variety of highly skilled people, you could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and initiatives including but not limited to external omnichannel campaigns, branding work, internal communications, cross-functional project management (including launch), congress and meetings development.

Please read below about the key elements of the role:

• Discover how marketing in a global pharmaceutical company really works
• Collaborate with key functions in the organizations like R&D, technology, medical and sales
• Gain transferable skills to improve your studies and career prospects
• Gain in-depth insights into the GSK GPS business function
• Experience development opportunities, including formal training that will equip you to become a leader of the future and inspire action through influencing and negotiating

Who are we looking for?  

• A keen passion for Marketing, Science &/or Learning
• Appetite for building strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Adaptability to change and working under pressure
• Excellent communication skills that help you influence
• Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity
• You enjoy learning in action and confidence
• Project management skills and the ability to prioritise

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

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Let’s do this!

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

Completion of your Full Application: Sunday 3rd December 2023 (this is the anticipated date you will need to complete stages 1 to 3 below).

Proposed Assessment / Interview Dates:  December 2023/January 2024

We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so we recommend that you apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.

This opportunity has 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!

We’re 100% open to ALL people

We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and also because it’s the right thing to do.

You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here.

Need help with your application?

Please email us at UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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