Are you looking for an impactful ‘year in industry’ or ‘sandwich year placement’ for summer 2024-2025 as part of your Undergraduate Degree or Integrated (Undergraduate) Masters?

Make your year in industry count! Whether you’re studying Sciences, Engineering, Humanities or Business-based degrees there are most likely opportunities suitable for you here at GSK!

We have full time, paid placements (sometimes known as year in industry/sandwich placement/ /industry placement/work placement) across our GSK and ViiV Healthcare business at a range of locations, including roles in:

• Chemistry

• Biology (laboratory and non-Laboratory)

• Engineering

• Manufacturing and Supply Chain

• Facilities

• Business - including Communications, Finance, HR, Marketing, Procurement, Medical Affairs, Data, IT/Technology.

For some examples of the types of roles we’ve recruited in previous years, please visit our website: Undergraduates | GSK

We also offer a number of great locations across GSK sites:

• GSK House - London

• Barnard Castle - County Durham, North East England

• Montrose - East Scotland

• Worthing - Southern England

• Ware - South East England

• Stevenage - South East England

No matter your chosen discipline, we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years, by getting ahead of disease together.

Inspired to help us get ahead together? Register your interest for our Undergraduate Industrial Placement programme today!

Our Undergraduate Industrial Placements are set to open in September & November 2023, for roles starting in summer 2024

• You will typically be at the start of your second year of an Undergraduate degree when you apply (this may vary slightly for Undergraduate Integrated masters courses)

• You must be currently studying an Undergraduate or Integrated (Undergraduate) Masters degree and be enrolled at a UK or ROI university for the duration of your placement (summer 2024-summer 2025)

• You must have completed a minimum of 2 years of your Undergraduate or Integrated Masters degree when you start your placement

• Placements are typically 12 months in duration (summer 2024 to summer 2025) and are usually taken between 2nd & 3rd year (your penultimate year) of an Undergraduate degree. This may vary slightly for Integrated Masters courses)

Please note: If you have graduated in or before summer 2024 you are not eligible for this programme.

If you are studying a post-graduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.

Make sure you’re ahead of the game. Register your interest by clicking on ‘Apply now’. We will contact you with reminders closer to the opening date, along with more information about the programme to help you to prepare.

What does an Unde rgraduate Industrial Placement entail?

• A GSK Undergraduate Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and throughout business areas.

• Challenging tasks within live projects or assignments.

• On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring, and training programmes, as well as access to free online courses for continued development.

• Access to LinkedIn groups to enable you to network and connect with your Industrial Placement community before you start your placement.

• Access to IP Unite placement community whilst on placement.

• A real role with genuine impact.

• Recognition as a GSK employee and access to the same benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support, a free shuttle bus service, an annual bonus on top of your salary, and much more!

Before you register your interest, we would like to direct you to the Connectr platform, developed by GSK specifically with you and your application in mind.

You will be asked to complete several online learning modules. Please note: these are not timed or marked and are entirely for educational purposes. Please follow this link and create an account for more information.

By clicking ‘Apply now’ on this form, we will contact you with reminders closer to the opening date, along with more information about the programme to help you to prepare.

Let’s do this!

Our opportunities have 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

• Application Form

• Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

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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.

Have any queries?

Please email us at UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on Ukdiversity.recruitment@gsk.com or 0808 234 4391. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

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