Medical Affairs 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.

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 Medical Affairs 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.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a high-performing global medical affairs team working in the lupus area.

As a global medical affairs team, we lead the medical strategy for our markets across the world. This includes our medical presence at key rheumatology/nephrology congress, scientific materials and training for our field medical teams, publication plans, and engaging with external experts, professional societies and patient organizations.

We also partner closely with our colleagues in the commercial team to support the delivery of key commercially led activities such as promotional campaigns and congresses.

What will you do

Projects that IP student will work on include but not limited to

• Delivery of medical booth and scientific symposia at key lupus/rheumatology global congresses
• Development of scientific materials for use externally by medical field teams
• Delivery of training for medical field teams
• Contribute and participate in insight generation activities such as advisory boards and scientific workshops

On a day-to-day level, this will involve

• Liaison with the Conference Secretariat, external vendors, medical brand teams to develop the congress plan and manage the implementation (conferences can occur in any global location).
• Participating in cross-functional strategic planning sessions
• Multi-functional stakeholder management – engaging across the business on high profile projects
• Stakeholder workstream management – attending workstream meetings and reporting back to the broader project led team to ensure overall alignment to objectives
• Investment and spend tracking – exposure to large scale budgeting and reporting
• Agency (external vendor) liaison
• Close working with the regional and LOC stakeholders to co-create global strategies and tactical implementation
• KPI and metrics management per project

You’ll be excited by the thought of

• Gaining exposure across the business to commercial and medical / regional and local / regulatory
• Working and partnering with key external stakeholders including global expert HCPs, patient societies and medical societies and understanding of their role in the pharma development processes
• Gaining an in depth understanding of the complex global pharmaceutical medical affairs environment and how this is essential for effective medicines development and commercialisation
• Understanding of the internal and external regulatory requirements for pharma companies

You’ll need

• Scientific knowledge
• Experience of successfully utilising digital platforms and social media
• Excellent communication skills that help you influence (oral and written)

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!

This opportunity has the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2023:

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