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Role Available in Location: GSK House (London)

If your interest lies in working with us at GSK house, remember we are moving headquarters the first half of 2024 to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”).

Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:

Currently studying an Undergraduate degree in Engineering (accredited), Business, Maths, Science, or a related subject.

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 2024

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £23,400 plus a bonus

Application Closing: Wednesday 11th October 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 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.

Global Supply Chain (GSC) is the group within GSK that is responsible for making and supplying medicines and vaccines across the globe. At our manufacturing sites we produce over 2.3 billion medication packs and vaccines doses to 90% of the world's countries.

Global Supply Chain management is all about ensuring we can supply our lifesaving and life-enhancing products to people around the globe. Making sure that the right products arrive at the right time in the right place is no easy task!

We offer a wide variety of supply chain placements, from forecasting demand, production planning, raw materials management, to warehousing and supply chain logistics. Wherever you are based, you’ll be getting stuck in and playing a key part in ensuring our products reach our patients and consumers in an efficient and timely manner.

During your placement you could be involved in a range of activities, such as:

• Project management – leading and delivering improvement projects

• Working with suppliers, customers, and colleagues globally

• Data analysis and reporting

• Distribution chains for complex products that require changing temperature for sensitive goods

• Demand review (including gathering and understanding market intelligence on forecasts and supply chain complexities)

• Inventory management

• Building strong relationships with key third-party suppliers

You will be applying the skills you already have learnt at university and developing new skills such as team working, effective communication and time management. You will work with and learn from an experienced, multi-disciplined team who will coach and mentor you during your year to help you achieve your potential. You will have the opportunity to network and learn about other business areas within GSK

Who are we looking for?

• Strong interpersonal skills

• To be a team player

• Well organised, good time management and data driven

• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, MS Teams, Word & Excel, Basic understanding of Power BI)

• Ability to demonstrate qualities aligned with GSK Culture.

Role 1: External Supply GSK House (London)

External Supply within the Global Supply Chain (GSC) is an integral component of the end-to-end supply chain enabling commercial ambition through leveraging a trusted Contract Manufacturing Organisation (CMO) network that provides access to technology platforms and markets to optimise supply and delivering benefits to our patients.

External Supply has 9 vacancies for IP students making it one of the largest communities of “same discipline” placement students in the GSK network. External Supply has opportunities in several teams including Quality, Projects, ES Risk, Compliance and Operations and Supply Strategy. You will also have the opportunity to work with external stakeholders. The exact nature of your role will depend on the team you join, but a wide variety of experiences are available; the size of the group allows for flexibility of development and collaboration across different roles.

As a Business & Supply Chain placement student within External Supply your responsibilities may include:

• Developing an understanding of the risks that lie across the business and learning to use tools to track risks and ensure adherence to process.

• Supporting members of the team to collate and analyse data and looking for insights in the data to enable more informed business decision making.

• Participating in Management Monitoring related activities such as utilising the tools for schedule adherence, monitoring the progress of reports completion and actions assigned following Management Monitoring inspections.

• Involvement in development and implementation of new processes in ES and initiatives as part of continuous improvement in the business.

• Supporting to the global operational supply teams who manage the day-to-day relationship with our CMOs to ensure efficient, timely and reliable supply of products.

• Assisting with the development of business cases and financial estimates, developing and tracking project plans to implementation, and managing internal and external stakeholder engagement throughout the project including quotations, supplier evaluations and continuous improvement opportunities, as well as spend and savings analysis.

• Supporting the recording, monitoring, and trending Key Quality Performance Indicators (KPI) to help developing improved reporting, audits, and review of procedures.

Other opportunities include participating in a charity event where the External Supply industrial placement students will be tasked to work together, and project manage fundraising throughout the year for the Save the Children fund. In addition to the above, opportunities exist to visit different manufacturing sites around the UK (e.g., Stevenage, Irvine) and learn from industry experts allowing for greater development opportunities across disciplines and sites.

Role 2: General Medicine Supply GSK House (London)

Roles exist in the General Medicine global supply chain planning team, who support day to day supply chain activities from Primary API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) manufacturing through to Secondary manufacturing and packing. These roles provide a great opportunity to work with functions such as commercial, strategy, quality, technical, logistics and site scheduling teams. To be successful in the General Medicine role, effective communication skills and stakeholder management is key.

Working in the General Medicine planning team will give you the opportunity to support and ensure continuity of supply of our life-enhancing medications. You will have a wide variety of experiences ranging from:

• Supporting the monthly Sales & Operational Planning process to learning the concepts of balancing of cost and cash with service targets.

• Working closely with site/global functions to deliver a supply plan that is balanced across multiple franchises. You will be involved in capacity planning and stock and inventory management.

• Understanding supply chain principles and applying analytical thinking to business situations and scenarios.

• Using planning systems and digital tools to drive optimised planning and support key decisions

• Working cross-functionally with highly geographically and culturally diverse teams

The General Medicine planning team is also responsible for supplying the Global Health Asset, driving the GSK Trust agenda with leading Supranational Organisations such as WHO, UNICEF, MSF etc.

What do we offer you?

• Salary of £21,400, plus a bonus

• 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 IP Unite, 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

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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 15th October 2023 (this is the anticipated date you will need to complete stages 1 to 3 below).

Proposed Assessment / Interview Dates: From November 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

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.

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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?

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We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.