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    Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

    GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

    About the role

    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. What will you do?

    Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for a Managed Access and Supported Studies, Oncology Global Medical Affairs Industrial Placement role at GSK today!

    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.

    Managed Access and Supported Studies teams are part of the Oncology Global Medical Affairs (GMA) department. The Managed Access team is responsible for global compassionate use programs (providing medicines that are not yet available in the country to patients with serious or life-threatening illnesses who have no other suitable treatment options).

    This role will work with a very supportive GSK team that is ambitious for patients. You’ll be providing operational support to health care professionals around the world ensuring GSK’s medicines arrive at their institutions as quickly as possible. You will learn about the country specific regulatory rules which determine how patients are treated with medicines that are not yet available in their country. You will also learn how GSK forecasts, prepares, stores and distributes our medicines specifically for treating patients compassionately.

    If successful, you will gain experience in a growing area within pharmaceutical industry. You’ll also have the satisfaction of knowing that you have been part of a team directly helping physicians and patients.

    Projects that you will work on will be well defined and allow you to gain experience in different parts of Global Oncology Medical Affairs department, with the focus on compassionate use programs and supported studies.

    Responsibilities 

    • Operational support for oncology compassionate use programs and non-GSK sponsored clinical trials
    • Support the development and archiving of program related documents
    • Attends program related meetings and captures minutes
    • Provides status update reports on programs
    • Together with the program lead, support planning, forecasting and management of clinical supply
    • Monitors vendor shipments and tracks inventory at both the depot and site level
    • Supports other innovative projects initiated by managed access team

    Who are we looking for?

    • An interest in a career in Health Sciences or Pharmaceutical Industry
    • A proven ability and willingness to work with a high level of integrity, organization, accuracy, and attention to detail
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills
    • A self-motivated, assertive, and self-confident individual with the ability to act with urgency and passion
    • Flexible, resourceful, creative, enthusiastic, and results oriented with a little bit of fun thrown in
    • Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with a very supportive team

    What do we offer you?

    • A salary of £21,000 plus a bonus (non-GSK House) or £22,500 plus a bonus (GSK House)
    • Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
    • On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring, and training programs
    • A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
    • You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
    • Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date
    • For R&D placements you will also be enrolled in several GSK internal courses as part of company policy such as data integrity, use of internal electronic lab book, laboratory safety rules
    • Within R&D you will have the opportunity to attend seminars by GSK scientists, which run throughout the year and comprise of a wide range of areas within drug discovery

    Let’s do this!