Choose Wisely, Apply Confidently

To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.)

We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.

Roles Available in Location: GSK HQ

Education required:  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.

Pre-application activity: Before applying, you'll need to obtain an application code by completing a short activity in Connectr, our candidate engagement platform.

This activity is designed to encourage considered applications. Once completed, you'll receive your unique application code required to proceed with your application.

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: September 2027

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary:  A salary of £28,900 plus a bonus.

Workplace Arrangements: Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)

Application Closing: Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly, and the advert may close at any point.

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.

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.

• Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.

• Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalise your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support. 

• Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.

• Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance

• Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.

• Access to IPUnite which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.

• 2 volunteering days per year

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

• Data analysis and management

• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

The Roles (3 available)

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.

Role 1 - Business Performance & Operations

Degree Requirement – Life Sciences related subject

Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)

Overview of the Department

The DGSC's mission is to transform data into decisive actions that shapes the future of patient care. To achieve this, DGSC focuses on four strategic objectives. First, Differentiate Asset Value (Evidence Generation) by producing timely and meaningful data that enable confident, high-impact decisions. Second, Strengthen Scientific Advocacy (Scientific Communications) through personalized engagement, leveraging data-driven and insight-rich narratives and content to enhance the impact of scientific communications. Third, Inspire Trust in Content (Medical Information and Content Approval) by building credibility and ensuring integrity through transparent and compliant content. Finally, Drive Medical Impact (Operations) by streamlining processes and adopting smart, tech-enabled ways of working to unlock efficiency and maximize impact. Together, these objectives ensure DGSC delivers on its mission to improve patient care through data-driven innovation.

Key Placement Learnings

• Develop strategic materials, including the Data Generation and Scientific Communications (DGSC) objectives and performance targets.

• Support performance management and reporting demonstrating transformational progress and impact.

• Build and manage an internal communications and engagement plan to support DGSC delivering with impact and sustaining performance.

• Co-ordinate and/or deliver communications and engagement activities and events.

• Support operational excellence through streamlining processes including through smart, tech-enabled ways of working.

• •Effective communication in a business context, including structuring materials that engage the audience and convey a compelling narrative.

• Translating strategy into action and performance.

• Matrix stakeholder management.

Role 2 - Study Delivery Lead Support

Degree Requirement – Science related discipline

Overview of the Department

The Supported Studies department partners across therapy areas and functions to operationalize externally supported research as part of an integrated study team. We drive our part of the process by coordinating proposals, data, systems, governance, and delivery activities to help ensure high-quality studies are executed efficiently, compliantly, and with clear accountability. Through close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, the team enables evidence generation that supports scientific understanding, informs future treatment approaches, and ultimately helps improve outcomes for patients.

Key Placement Learnings

• Clinical Funding Proposal Administrative Support: Assisting with coordination of CFPs including coordinating slide creation, scheduling meetings, taking minutes, and follow-up to ensure Proposal Review Form completion. May also assist with completion of due diligence and other necessary proposal review steps.

• Supporting external system updates and UAT validation of system changes.

• Data Management: Assisting with data entry, consolidation, and reporting tasks to ensure accuracy and timely entry of data. Leading monthly spot-checks on system data to ensure accuracy of data. 

• Project Support: Contributing to specific projects within the Supported Studies portfolio, such as portfolio reporting, process optimization, resource planning, or compliance-related activities.

• Team Support: Providing day-to-day operational assistance to reduce administrative burden on permanent team members, allowing them to focus on strategic priorities.

Role 3 – Global Medical Information & Content Approval

Degree requirements: Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Healthcare Sciences, Business Management or related

Overview of the Department

GSK's Global Medical Information & Content Approval (MI&CA) team plays a critical role in ensuring the delivery of accurate, compliant, and high-quality medical information and scientific content across the product lifecycle. The Industrial Placement Student will support medical content creation and review in Oncology/Specialty therapy area and strategic projects across Medical Information, Content Governance, Operational Excellence, and Digital Transformation while gaining exposure to a broad network of stakeholders across GSK.

Key Placement Activities

• Develop medical information content and assist in content approval in Oncology/Specialty therapy areas to ensuring content is scientifically balanced, evidence-based, up to date and meets the scientific needs of customers to help inform clinical care.

• Support projects that enhance Medical Information and Content Approval processes and ways of working.

• Contribute to content governance, quality, and compliance initiatives.

• Support business performance reporting, data analysis, and insight generation.

• Assist with digital and AI-enabled transformation projects.

• Develop presentations, communications, training materials, and business updates.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Medical, Regulatory, Commercial, Quality, and Digital & Technology functions.

Role 4 – Global Scientific Communications

Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences or other life sciences degrees

Overview of the Department

Global Scientific Communications is part of the Chief Patient Officer organisation and is responsible for bringing GSK's scientific strategies to life. We create innovative and engaging ways to communicate evidence, turning complex scientific data into meaningful stories that resonate with healthcare professionals and other audiences.

By combining analytical insights with digital innovation, we deliver personalised scientific content that helps people make informed healthcare decisions. This placement offers a unique opportunity to see how global healthcare communications are developed and to build valuable skills in science communication, content creation, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement.

Key Placement Learnings

• Assist with pipeline communication materials, such as supporting development and delivery of pipeline displays and congress booth content.

• Support coordination of congress-related activities across Oncology Scientific Communications.

• Coordinate operational activities with agencies and internal teams, including follow-up actions, tracking deliverables, and supporting content review processes.

• Content strategy – understanding how content supports business objectives and audience needs.

• Communication skills – crafting clear, engaging messages for different audiences.

• Stakeholder management – collaborating with diverse teams and balancing priorities.

• Data and insights – using metrics and feedback to improve content effectiveness.

• Process improvement – identifying efficiencies and helping optimise ways of working.

• Project management – planning, coordinating and delivering work to deadlines. .

Apply now!

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2027:

1. Complete Connectr activity – obtain your personal code - please follow this link to complete

2. Eligibility Form – enter your personal code

3. GSK Digital Assessment

4. Some technical roles may require a short technical assessment

5. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

Note: Your Connectr application code is unique and must not be shared. Using someone else's code, or sharing your own, may result in your application being withdrawn.

You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.

We’re 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it’s the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.

For more information about GSK and our careers please visit our website 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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Skills

Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Launch Excellence, Patient Impact

 

 

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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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.

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