We are a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
We prioritise innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines to prevent and treat disease.
Roles Available in Location: GSK HQ (London)
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in any subject.
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 Role
Overview of the Department
Procurement in GSK is a global function, with over 500 employees around the world, based in 40+ countries, and is responsible for proactively managing more than £8 Billion of supplier spend.
Procurement activity includes managing a range of goods and services that can be split into direct and indirect categories. The direct category includes materials that are purchased that will go into the actual medicines and vaccines that GSK sells into markets worldwide. Indirect categories are goods and services that are purchased by the organisation to support its operations and commercial activities, these include: research and development, marketing services, capital equipment, facilities services, IT and travel.
Global Procurement's objectives are:
1. Increase our value delivery: drive savings to meet business targets, whilst ensuring quality and supply.
2. Make buying simpler: Procurement understands business needs and connects GSK employees seamlessly to the right suppliers.
Key Placement Activities
Your year with us will be spent working as part of a team on structured and challenging projects and activities. The Procurement department support all GSK business areas, including manufacturing, sales and marketing, and research and development. This diversity of projects is reflected in the range of placements available. Wherever you're based, you will put into practice the business skills you've gained at university, learn from experienced colleagues, and network with a wide community of business professionals, customers, and other undergraduates.
The knowledge and experience you gain will help you to stand out from the crowd and give you a firm idea about your future career options. As well as learning all about Procurement, you'll develop core personal skills such as communication, planning, organisation, problem solving, team-working and networking.
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.
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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
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Job posted: Nov 14, 2024
Expiration date: Dec 07, 2024