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    Are you looking for a career where you can help positively impact the health of billions of people?

    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.

    Our success absolutely depends on our people. 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.

    About the role

    We’re looking for leaders of the future in Technology.

    Are you a graduate with great tech know-how who can help us empower our people and drive our business? We have exciting partnerships with cutting-edge companies – and we’re reinventing how we serve our patients, healthcare professionals and our consumers across our business.

    This is a rare opportunity to develop your skills and learn about the latest technologies and business processes in a dynamic healthcare environment. You’ll also discover the best ways to deliver key agile solutions and work collaboratively to implement our tech strategy.

    Develop your career

    Over two years, our Future Leaders Programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. You’ll have three varied and stretching rotations working on live projects alongside experts in industry. Your rotations will provide you with the opportunity to experience working with different types of technology, across different parts of the GSK Tech business. In all our roles, you’ll work with a variety of different markets and cultures.

    Tailored training – and great career progression

    We’ll tailor your training and development to suit your talents and ambition, as well as our business needs, setting you up for success in your chosen niche. After you complete our Future Leaders Programme, you’ll have the skills to become a tech leader of the future, with a solid foundation for a variety of business and tech careers within healthcare. There’s no limit to how far you can go with us – it’s up to you to prove yourself.

    What you can expect

    • The chance to undertake roles focusing on our 5 key strategic capabilities: Big Data, Cloud, Cyber Security, Product Management and Software Engineering
    • Contribute to maximum strategic and operational value
    • Accelerate your development through tailored training that is intuitive to you and your needs
    • Develop fresh thinking and innovative new ideas within your team
    • Build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders
    • Implementing innovative, sustainable ways of working that drive business performance
    • Unlock the value of emerging technologies to transform the way GSK interacts with employees, patients and consumers
    • Continuously improve our systems to support vital business processes
    • Join an international community of like-minded graduates who, alongside their day jobs, help shape and run the Future Leaders Programme, for example, organizing hackathons, running global tech debates with external leading experts, and more

    You’ll need

    • to be a talented, ambitious graduate with great technology skills
    • fresh thinking with innovative new ideas that boost productivity and efficiency
    • to be hungry to learn and develop into a leadership position
    • a strong interest in a career in the healthcare industry

    Tech within GSK

    Tech at GSK is undergoing a period of change and transformation: GSK has the ambition to become a leader within the pharmaceutical industry in the application of digital technologies to drive a step change in performance and competitive advantage. As an organization, GSK is looking to create maximum strategic and operational value from our five key tech capabilities: Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product Management. Within these strategic areas, we see this work touching upon established and emergent technologies, including the transition to digitized data (vs. paper-based), Data Science and Analytics, next-generation/cloud computing, sensors and the internet-of-things, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

    Benefits include

    • A salary of £33,600
    • An annual bonus based on company performance
    • Access to healthcare and well-being programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support
    • Employee recognition programmes, which reward exceptional achievements
    • Long-term incentives through shared ownership link your rewards to our longer-term performance
    • On-the-job experience and formal and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes

    Let’s do this!