Pipeline Project Management Analyst Industrial Placement 2023

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 Pipeline Project Analyst 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 Pipeline Project Management Centre of Excellence (PPM COE) Project Analyst is an enterprise role and key member of the Pharma R&D function in Strategy, Portfolio and Operations that is responsible for supporting project management and leadership of the GSK pipeline of new breakthrough medicines to solve global medical needs (such a COVID 19 Vaccines) and is at the heart of GSK’s ambition to be highest performing leader in Industry.

The PPM COE Project Analyst role resides within the Project Management Excellence team that is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of Project Management processes, business rules and practices across GSK R&D, to support the drug/vaccine development with excellence in project management discipline across all phases. This encompasses methodologies, training and behaviours enabling the teams to manage the projects efficiently.

As a PPM COE Project Analyst you will

• Support the leadership of Project Management (PM) methodologies and use of related infrastructure for the R&D organization
• Support development, implementation and management of the project management methodologies such as processes, business rules, practices to support the project managers and the project teams. It encompasses the development of business rules in collaboration with the PM systems and Resource Management teams, project information and documentation management, risk management, performance management, the maintenance of a project management handbook and/or related framework
• Support complex projects for the development and implementation of new PM methodologies, capturing business needs from the stakeholders (project managers, global functional leads Portfolio, Finance etc)
• Support maintenance of the E2E drug/vaccine development framework such as the IAP (Integrated Asset Plan) which involves working across Commercial, R&D and Supply Chain leadership teams
• Partner with other teams in the PPM CoE or TECH to develop the fit-for-purpose systems required to manage the GSK R&D development projects E2E in an efficient and compliant manner such as the introduction of agile ways of working
• Develop and provides onboarding and training and support the Project Management community (in PPM and in other functions) in applying the PM methodologies. In using the PM systems, to ensure quality and robustness of the project information and to help leveraging the PM discipline
• Drive continuous improvement of the PM methodologies and infrastructure, liaising with relevant partners (Internal and External) to achieve it
• Ensure compliance with the PM methodologies and systems, identifying KPIs, set achievable targets, monitor and support the teams to achieve them, conduct audits etc.
• Ensure promotion and anchorage of Project Management Excellence principles across the R&D organization
• Capture external trends and innovation related to the PM discipline and ensuring GSK R&D remains at the edge of the industry for the PM methodologies and infrastructure

You’ll be excited by the thought of

• Learning about drug development
• Enabling medicines and vaccines to reach patients worldwide
• Gaining broad experience across the field of Research and Development of Breakthrough Medicines
• Developing your business skills (Project Management, Change Management, Strategy) and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
• Learning to manage projects and prioritise tasks
• Working across a global matrix organisation
• Gaining experience across a variety of therapeutic areas

Who are we looking for?

• An individual who is motivated, curious and proactive
• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• The ability to adapt to change
• Strong communication skills
• Strong leadership mindset
• A passion for science and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients

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!