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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.
Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for a Patient Focused Development Team Executive 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.
The Patient Focused Development (PFD) Team is responsible for championing optimal patient engagement across the research and development organisation to improve patient experience and outcomes. This pioneering work covers working with many teams across GSK as well as individual patients and patient organisations.
As part of this team
- You would be a member of a small dynamic global team with clear specific responsibilities.
- You would be at the core of GSK’s ambitious for patients work.
- You would support the delivery of a series of patient advisory board meetings.
- You would assist in the delivery of the annual patient organisation disclosure of funding process on gsk.com.
- You would be a member of and support the running of the global GSK Patient Affairs Network made up of GSK representatives from across the world.
- You would receive thorough patient centricity training as well as the opportunity to interact with patients and patient organisations and learn about how GSK works with these important stakeholders.
Who are we looking for?
- A keen passion for the commercial world and the biopharma industry
- 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
- You are a keen learner
- The ability to prioritise
What do we offer you?
- A salary of £22,500, plus a bonus
- 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!
