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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.
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
Working closely with the Strategic Technology and Collaborations Manager (Portfolio and Technology Delivery, Medicine Development & Supply) would allow you to use your scientific and business mindset to practical applications within the team, such as supporting the evaluation of external collaboration proposals, and liaising with internal stakeholders for knowledge sharing
The role is not lab-based although prior experience with laboratory practices in chemistry for small molecules, and/or biology experiments aiming producing large molecules (ie.: mAbs) would be favourable, but not mandatory
The role is to support R&D collaborations assessment and monitoring. For instance, supporting to prospect key performance indicators (KPIs) across the collaborations we have available at present. KPIs such as sustainability, reduction of production time, reduction of cost of goods, alignment with R&D goals across different departments, etc.
In parallel, the role has potential to support with communication around these collaborations, and the culture of sharing success associated within the external collaborations’ space.
There will be some level of administrative tasks around collaboration project management, therefore candidates should be open to develop a business mindset as well. The student joining will benefit from coaching and working very closely with line manager for your development.
Who are we looking for?
- 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?
- Salary of £21,400, 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
