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    SRG are looking for Summer Placement students within Law for GSK, based in London.

    Job Title: Legal - Research & Development and Global Commercial Therapy Areas - Summer Placement Programme, UK - 2022

    Degree requirements: You will have: (i) completed an undergraduate degree in law or equivalent; and (ii) be studying or have completed the Legal Practice Course, or have at least a year of paralegal experience.

    Start date: July 2022.

    Location: Greater London and remote working.

    Salary: £22,500

    Application deadline: We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.

    Want to solve some of the world's biggest health challenges?

    Our industrial placements are real roles with real responsibility, where you can gain experience in a purpose-led, performance-driven healthcare business. Join and help us unite science, talent and technology to get ahead of disease together.

    Take the first step in your legal career - gain real experience of being a lawyer and international commercial exposure

    We provide legal support to GSK's research & development and global commercial product teams across a wide range of legal matters, with staff based in the US, UK, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Croatia. We deliver proactive, strategic legal support to the business to achieve research & development objectives, and to conduct commercial and medical activities for our marketed medicines. Our work is wide-ranging, challenging, and incredibly rewarding!

    What will you do?

    In this placement, your responsibilities will include:

    • Assisting in the provision of high-quality legal advice and proactive, strategic legal support. This could include a wide variety of legal topics, including the laws and regulations on clinical trials, the rules on the promotion of medicines, data privacy, dispute resolution, the provision of legal training to the business, and intellectual property.
    • Embedding with the business to provide real-time advice.
    • Legal project management.
    • Contract drafting.
    • Legal research.
    • Working with stakeholders at different levels across the business.

    You will be guaranteed the opportunity to develop both technical and interpersonal skills with team members and clients across the globe, as well as the chance to gain an understanding of the workings and processes of a leading global pharmaceutical company.

    You'll be excited by the thought of:

    • Contributing to GSK's work in getting ahead of disease, to help improve the lives of patients everywhere.
    • Gaining diverse legal experience on a range of legal topics.
    • Building relationships with colleagues and business clients in order to give practical legal advice, whilst gaining commercial insight and exposure.
    • Having real responsibility and accountability for your workload.
    • Learning about life as a lawyer in a global pharmaceutical company.

    You'll need:

    • Excellent and accurate written and verbal communication skills.
    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • To be a team player
    • Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, MS Teams, Word & Excel)

    Get to grips with our recruitment process

    If you have what we're looking for apply today!

    This opportunity has the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2022

    1. Eligibility & Application Form
    2. World of GSK Online Assessment
    3. Interview

    We have changed the way we recruit in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, you can learn more about how our practices have adapted here.

    We're 100% open to all talent

    We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality 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 consumers. 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 and let us know how we can help you. Or email us your number and we'll call you back. We'll make all reasonable modifications to support you throughout the recruitment process and we'll treat all information you give us in confidence. Please get in touch to help us process your application as soon as possible.