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Who we are…?

At our organisation, we are unified around our purpose: We use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world. For more than a century, we’ve been at the forefront of research, bringing forward medicines, vaccines and innovative health solutions for the world’s most challenging diseases.

We are officially certified by the Top Employer Institute and been awarded the exclusive Top Employer United Kingdom Certification for the fourth year running.

Job Description:

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

Working in a professional and friendly environment, will provide you the opportunity to gain practical experience in an IT Project Delivery role and will help build a strong foundation for success in your future. Throughout your twelve-month placement at our organisation, you will be provided with the opportunity to support, develop and improve our IT systems and processes as well as be provided opportunities to travel to other of our organisation's sites. You will be part of a friendly, energetic, highly motivated and collaborative team working on Projects using leading edge IT technologies.

Duties

Implementation of new IT systems in-line with business needs:

• Development of new business systems to meet business specifications, project timescales and users’ expectations
• Provide technical expertise to implement and integrate new and existing systems and technologies
• Opportunity to manage and deliver your own projects with guidance from your mentor

Maintenance and development of existing IT system:

• Participate in change management processes working with key stakeholders to deliver continuous improvement
• Development and delivery of training packages to business users
• Opportunity to work in an agile environment to deliver business demands and drive business value
• Delivering projects throughout different phases of the system development lifecycle

Maintain compliance to our Company’s Corporate and Regulatory guidelines for IT systems:

• Ensuring all necessary training is completed and documented successfully
• Application of our Company’s specific System Development Life Cycle to systems
• Production of accompanying documentation for the implementation of new systems
• Adherence to our Company’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) in everything you do

Technical Specifications

• You will be looking to complete a 12-month student internship in your third or penultimate year of study of your undergraduate degree, returning to your course at the end of the internship
• Studying towards a IT related degree (or equivalent qualification)

Qualities we look for

• Communicates, participates and collaborates as one team; winning and losing together
• Focuses on what matters the most to create the greatest value for human and animal patients
• Acts with urgency, rigor and determination to enable us to continue to deliver our medicines and vaccines around the world
• Intellectually curious, adapts and has a commitment to never give up, whether we succeed or fail
• Aligns with and fosters a culture of diversity and inclusion; being part of an inclusive environment where everyone is able to contribute their best ideas
• Encourages curiosity, voices their opinions and engages in healthy debate to improve ideas and decisions to achieve better outcomes

We review applications on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Length of Programme

12-Months

Start Date

Summer 2023

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

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Requisition ID:R205629