HR (Multiple Roles) Industrial Placement

Open to Undergraduate Degrees in any discipline!

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.

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: June/July 2024

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £21,400 plus a bonus (Stevenage) / a salary of £23,400 plus a bonus (GSK House)

Application Closing: Wednesday 29th November 2023 (this is the date we anticipate the job will be removed from the website and no longer taking new applications).

Please note these dates are subject to change as we may close this vacancy when we have enough applications. We recommend that you apply and complete all stages of your application as soon as you can, so we can consider your application.

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

A GSK Industrial Placement 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.

HR is all about equipping our business with the right people with the right skills to achieve our ambition. We are looking for organised, driven, great communicators to join our HR teams.

Please read below about some of the roles we are recruiting for across our HR Industrial Placements. Please note when you apply you will be able to select location preference of where you would like to be placed if successful. We will accommodate your preference where possible.

R&D Early Talent Coordinator (Stevenage)

You will work with the R&D (Research and Development) Early Talent Team to ensure the early talent programmes run smoothly and deliver impact to support GSKs ambition. Working within this team will be fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the entire lifecycle of our talent programmes through attraction, recruitment, development and offboarding. Not only will you gain plenty of exposure to the HR and Talent organisations, but there will also be great opportunities to expand your knowledge of R&D.

Some of the key activities that you will be involved in are:

• Supporting new students starting in R&D, for example 150 Industrial Placement, Apprentice and Graduates
• Organise internal and external events virtual and face to face
• Supporting recruitment, selection, development and tracking of future talent programme cohorts and summer students
• Work with hiring managers to create compelling advertisements and construct internal communications
• Review and implement recruitment attraction plans
• Support planning and logistics of assessment days and interviews
• Assist in collation and tracking of metrics to support recruitment and the diversity agenda
• Support tracking of budgetary spend
• Track and update Global/UK/US Careers website with R&D programmes and assist with publishing Internal/external communications
• Lead after action reviews and implement process improvements
• Working across boundaries, with colleagues in a multitude of countries to gain global awareness and experience, whilst building a strong network of HR contacts in the UK 
• Learning how to effectively network and how GSK and especially R&D develop early talent

While the role requires a good level of IT capability, there is an expectation that many of these technical tasks may be development opportunities with training support provided to expand this valuable skill set.

Global Finance Capabilities & Early Talent (GSK House) 

You will work with the Global Finance Capabilities & Early Talent Team to ensure the Finance early talent programme and capability events run smoothly and deliver impact to support GSKs ambition. Working within this team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the finance talent programme through recruitment, development and offboarding. There will also be opportunities to support programmes, like Women in Finance, UK One Finance I&D and UK One Finance development & network team.  You will get to meet a wide range of stakeholders and develop key HR skills, particularly in the DEI space.

 Some of the key activities that you will be involved in are: 

• Organise internal events both virtual and face to face for our finance graduate programme.
• Assist in collation and tracking of metrics to support talent programmes and our diversity agenda.
• Support our GSK Unlocked programme for students with a socially diverse background.
• Event management: plan and implement webinars and other events associated with Global Finance development days.
• Regular monitoring of new starters to enroll in relevant training.
• Manage communications and marketing for Finance development events both in the UK & Globally.
• Support tracking of budgetary spend.

What do we offer you?

• A salary of £21,400 plus a bonus (Stevenage) / a salary of £23,400 plus a bonus (GSK House)
• 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

Let’s do this!

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

Completion of your Full Application: Sunday 3rd December 2023 (this is the anticipated date you will need to complete stages 1 to 3 below).

Proposed Assessment / Interview Dates: December/January 2023

We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so we recommend that you apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.

This opportunity has the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

• Eligibility Form
• World of GSK Online Assessment
• Written Assessment
• Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

Apply now!

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.