GlaxoSmithKline
Medical Safety & Governance Industrial Placement, UK 2025
Job Location
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Roles Available in Location : GSK HQ (London)
Education required : To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Sciences, Life-Sciences, Business, Economics or other.
Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.
Other requirements: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.
If you have already graduated with a Bachelor's Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.
Language requirement : Written and spoken fluency in English
Expected Start date : July 2025
Duration : 1 year (approximately)
Salary : A salary of £27,100 plus a bonus.
Role Closing :
We anticipate that this role will close in early December. We encourage you to apply early, as this role may close if sufficient applications are received.
You must register your details and submit your eligibility questionnaire before the role closes to be considered. You will then have additional time to complete the subsequent assessments.
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.
Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:
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. 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 and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.
The Roles
This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.
Role 1 - Medical Governance and Internal Operations
Degree requirements: any subject
Overview of the Department
The Medical Governance and Operations Team (MGO) operates in service of Global Medical (GM) in the areas of governance, operations, and capability building to support GM to perform at their best. Through a robust governance framework, strong operational and capability building support, and clear performance metrics, MGO enables GM to focus, perform, and develop to deliver medical excellence today and in the future.
Key Placement Activities
Role 2 - ViiV Compliance Specialist
Degree requirements: any subject
Overview of the Department
The objective of this role is to join the ViiV Healthcare Compliance organisation, partner with the ViiV business, support Compliance above-country and within Medical/R&D and across other teams. The ViiV Compliance team helps support and facilitate ViiV Healthcare, R&D and Global Medical Enterprise risk management holistically.
Key Placement Activities
Role 3 - Commercial Operations
Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Business or related
Overview of the Department
The Health, Value and Access function brings together all the teams responsible for market access activities across communications & government affairs, regulatory, health outcomes and market access. When we created the HVA function in November 2023, we also formed a couple of new teams to help us focus earlier in the assets' life cycle on essential policy work and improve the operational efficiency of how we do things.
In setting up HVA, we are driven by three key goals:
1. By planning early and across whole lifecycle we want to ensure we get the broadest, fastest access for patients to our medicines and vaccines as for them every day counts.
2. Ensure we do this at a price that appropriately values our innovation.
3. Hardwire a new cross-functional portfolio approach into our ways of working to ensure success - by making portfolio decisions we allocate resource in a way that delivers maximum value and impact for the business.
Key Placement Activities
Role 4 - ViiV Safety and Pharmacovigilance
Degree requirements: Science or related
Overview of the Department
The ViiV Safety Team report into the Vice President, Safety and Phamacovigilance. All members of the team bring expert knowledge and many years of experience in specific areas of pharmacovigilance, ensuring robust patient-focused decisions and excellence in compliance with regulations. As the majority of safety activities are outsourced to GSK, the ViiV safety team work very closely with the wider GSK safety organisation to ensure we meet all our deliverables.
Key Placement Activities
Role 5 - Health Outcomes Associate
Degree requirements: Science or related, preferably with a focus on biomedical sciences, biological sciences, medicine, economics, mathematics, statistics or engineering.
Overview of the Department
The UK Health Outcomes team focuses on therapy areas across the GSK portfolio including oncology, specialty, general medicines, and vaccines. The UK team work closely together and collaborate cross-functionally with highly skilled people across the UK and global function. One of the key priorities for the Health Outcomes team is to play a pivotal role in gaining national market access for GSK's assets by assessing clinical and economic information and delivering health outcomes solutions internally and externally to enable the UK Health bodies to make informed decisions and provide patient access. You could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and learn to provide technical knowledge in health economics, outcomes research and UK national payer requirements to demonstrate value.
Key Placement Activities
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:
1. Eligibility Form
2. World of GSK Online Assessment
3. Written Assessment
4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You'll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here
You can learn more about GSK and our careers here.
Apply now!
We're 100% open to ALL people
We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference 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 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 or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.
#GSKIndustrialPlacements #GSKBusinessOpsPlacements #GSKViiVHealthcarePlacements #GSKLondon #IndustrialPlacements
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities.
For UK Intern roles (including Industrial Placements) you can either call us on 01582 692870, or send an email uk.InternRecruitment@gsk.com
For UK Apprentice and Graduate Programme roles you can either call us on 0203 862 2277, or send an email uk.EarlyCareers@gsk.com
As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK's Transparency Reporting For the Record site.
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 11/26/2024
Education required : To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Sciences, Life-Sciences, Business, Economics or other.
Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.
Other requirements: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.
If you have already graduated with a Bachelor's Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.
Language requirement : Written and spoken fluency in English
Expected Start date : July 2025
Duration : 1 year (approximately)
Salary : A salary of £27,100 plus a bonus.
Role Closing :
We anticipate that this role will close in early December. We encourage you to apply early, as this role may close if sufficient applications are received.
You must register your details and submit your eligibility questionnaire before the role closes to be considered. You will then have additional time to complete the subsequent assessments.
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.
Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:
- Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
- Communication (written & verbal)
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Networking
- Technical skills (detailed within each role description)
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. 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 and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.
The Roles
This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.
Role 1 - Medical Governance and Internal Operations
Degree requirements: any subject
Overview of the Department
The Medical Governance and Operations Team (MGO) operates in service of Global Medical (GM) in the areas of governance, operations, and capability building to support GM to perform at their best. Through a robust governance framework, strong operational and capability building support, and clear performance metrics, MGO enables GM to focus, perform, and develop to deliver medical excellence today and in the future.
Key Placement Activities
- Reviewing onboarding process and resources for medical employees, working with the asset owners to ensure a timely update of their resources.
- Organising global training virtual events, including preparation of learning objectives, internal communications to promote the event, and development and delivery of post training assets.
- Maintaining and communicating KPIs to track execution of the Global Medical Affairs Plan.
- Creating and maintaining medical policies and procedures.
- Supporting global medical booth for HIV Glasgow, in conjunction with Global Franchise team.
- Supporting Global Patient Engagement team in engagement, logistics, and execution.
- Participating in Global Digital update calls embedding digital enhancements throughout Global Medical.
Role 2 - ViiV Compliance Specialist
Degree requirements: any subject
Overview of the Department
The objective of this role is to join the ViiV Healthcare Compliance organisation, partner with the ViiV business, support Compliance above-country and within Medical/R&D and across other teams. The ViiV Compliance team helps support and facilitate ViiV Healthcare, R&D and Global Medical Enterprise risk management holistically.
Key Placement Activities
- Creating training materials for Compliance-owned training.
- Support and/or leadership of communication projects e.g. Compliance website and Workplace posts.
- Administration of Written Standards for Medical/R&D and ViiV Healthcare Corporate.
- Management of document archiving for Legal and Compliance teams based in the UK.
- Responding to simple Compliance questions and queries from the business.
- Support Risk Management and Compliance Board Meetings, primarily R&D/Medical e.g. meeting logistics, drafting minutes, compilation of meeting materials.
- Creation, dissemination and analysis of surveys, data, reports, and information, as may be required to support Compliance needs.
- Conduct, support or involvement in monitoring, where required.
Role 3 - Commercial Operations
Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Business or related
Overview of the Department
The Health, Value and Access function brings together all the teams responsible for market access activities across communications & government affairs, regulatory, health outcomes and market access. When we created the HVA function in November 2023, we also formed a couple of new teams to help us focus earlier in the assets' life cycle on essential policy work and improve the operational efficiency of how we do things.
In setting up HVA, we are driven by three key goals:
1. By planning early and across whole lifecycle we want to ensure we get the broadest, fastest access for patients to our medicines and vaccines as for them every day counts.
2. Ensure we do this at a price that appropriately values our innovation.
3. Hardwire a new cross-functional portfolio approach into our ways of working to ensure success - by making portfolio decisions we allocate resource in a way that delivers maximum value and impact for the business.
Key Placement Activities
- Undertaking projects led by Operations that support wider HVA effectiveness and efficiency in bringing new assets to patients that need them.
- Management and development of the HVA Ops hub power BI platform.
- Supporting the evolution of core governance approaches to ensure that performance management and decision making is optimised across the function.
Role 4 - ViiV Safety and Pharmacovigilance
Degree requirements: Science or related
Overview of the Department
The ViiV Safety Team report into the Vice President, Safety and Phamacovigilance. All members of the team bring expert knowledge and many years of experience in specific areas of pharmacovigilance, ensuring robust patient-focused decisions and excellence in compliance with regulations. As the majority of safety activities are outsourced to GSK, the ViiV safety team work very closely with the wider GSK safety organisation to ensure we meet all our deliverables.
Key Placement Activities
- Support ViiV Oversight of the services provided by GSK safety organisation.
- Monitoring of our market research/patient support programs/interactive digital media from a safety perspective.
- Analysis of data to be included in key safety documentation.
- Supporting with document management within the team.
- Presenting at our key oversight forums, including to senior leaders
- Develop skills in summarising data for senior leaders, document management practices, and using digital tools to build quality and efficiency into work.
Role 5 - Health Outcomes Associate
Degree requirements: Science or related, preferably with a focus on biomedical sciences, biological sciences, medicine, economics, mathematics, statistics or engineering.
Overview of the Department
The UK Health Outcomes team focuses on therapy areas across the GSK portfolio including oncology, specialty, general medicines, and vaccines. The UK team work closely together and collaborate cross-functionally with highly skilled people across the UK and global function. One of the key priorities for the Health Outcomes team is to play a pivotal role in gaining national market access for GSK's assets by assessing clinical and economic information and delivering health outcomes solutions internally and externally to enable the UK Health bodies to make informed decisions and provide patient access. You could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and learn to provide technical knowledge in health economics, outcomes research and UK national payer requirements to demonstrate value.
Key Placement Activities
- Support the delivery of health outcomes activities to generate high quality and timely data for the continued access of GSK brands to the UK market.
- Provide input into the development of research, market access and Health Technology Assessment strategies based on business requirements.
- Work with cross-functional teams (e.g., Health Outcomes, Commercial, Medical, Regulatory and Global/European) to develop health outcomes strategies for medicines.
- Present and engage with internal and external stakeholders.
- Liaise with the Health Outcomes team to understand and share best practices to help improve performance and capabilities.
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:
1. Eligibility Form
2. World of GSK Online Assessment
3. Written Assessment
4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You'll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here
You can learn more about GSK and our careers here.
Apply now!
We're 100% open to ALL people
We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference 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 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 or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.
#GSKIndustrialPlacements #GSKBusinessOpsPlacements #GSKViiVHealthcarePlacements #GSKLondon #IndustrialPlacements
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities.
For UK Intern roles (including Industrial Placements) you can either call us on 01582 692870, or send an email uk.InternRecruitment@gsk.com
For UK Apprentice and Graduate Programme roles you can either call us on 0203 862 2277, or send an email uk.EarlyCareers@gsk.com
As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK's Transparency Reporting For the Record site.
Location: London, GB
Posted Date: 11/26/2024
Contact Information
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