Register Your Interest - HR Placement

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Register Your Interest - HR Placement

Roles Available in Location: GSK House (London) or Stevenage (Hertfordshire)

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 any discipline.
• 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: June/July 2025

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £21,400 plus a bonus (Stevenage) / a salary of £23,400 plus a bonus (GSK House)

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 Industrial Placement 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.

HR is all about equipping our business with the right people with the right skills to achieve our ambition. We are looking for organised, driven, great communicators to join our HR teams.

Please read below about some of the roles we are recruiting for across our HR Industrial Placements. Please note when you apply you will be able to select location preference of where you would like to be placed if successful. We will accommodate your preference where possible.

R&D Early Talent Coordinator (Stevenage)

You will work with the R&D (Research and Development) Early Talent Team to ensure the early talent programmes run smoothly and deliver impact to support GSKs ambition. Working within this team will be fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the entire lifecycle of our talent programmes through attraction, recruitment, development and offboarding. Not only will you gain plenty of exposure to the HR and Talent organisations, but there will also be great opportunities to expand your knowledge of R&D.

Some of the key activities that you will be involved in are:

• Supporting new students starting in R&D, for example 150 Industrial Placement, Apprentice and Graduates
• Organise internal and external events virtual and face to face
• Supporting recruitment, selection, development and tracking of future talent programme cohorts and summer students
• Work with hiring managers to create compelling advertisements and construct internal communications
• Review and implement recruitment attraction plans
• Support planning and logistics of assessment days and interviews
• Assist in collation and tracking of metrics to support recruitment and the diversity agenda
• Support tracking of budgetary spend
• Track and update Global/UK/US Careers website with R&D programmes and assist with publishing Internal/external communications
• Lead after action reviews and implement process improvements
• Working across boundaries, with colleagues in a multitude of countries to gain global awareness and experience, whilst building a strong network of HR contacts in the UK 
• Learning how to effectively network and how GSK and especially R&D develop early talent
• While the role requires a good level of IT capability, there is an expectation that many of these technical tasks may be development opportunities with training support provided to expand this valuable skill set.

Global Finance Capabilities & Early Talent (GSK House) 

You will work with the Global Finance Capabilities & Early Talent Team to ensure the Finance early talent programme and capability events run smoothly and deliver impact to support GSKs ambition. Working within this team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the finance talent programme through recruitment, development and offboarding. There will also be opportunities to support programmes, like Women in Finance, UK One Finance I&D and UK One Finance development & network team. You will get to meet a wide range of stakeholders and develop key HR skills, particularly in the DEI space.

Some of the key activities that you will be involved in are: 

• Organise internal events both virtual and face to face for our finance graduate programme.
• Assist in collation and tracking of metrics to support talent programmes and our diversity agenda.
• Support our GSK Unlocked programme for students with a socially diverse background.
• Event management: plan and implement webinars and other events associated with Global Finance development days.
• Regular monitoring of new starters to enroll in relevant training.
• Manage communications and marketing for Finance development events both in the UK & Globally.
• Support tracking of budgetary spend.

What do we offer you?

• A salary of £21,400 plus a bonus (Stevenage) / a salary of £23,400 plus a bonus (GSK House)
• 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 IPUnite, 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

Why GSK?

As one of the world’s leading healthcare companies with operations in over 115 countries, GSK discovers, develops, manufactures and distributes lifesaving prescription medicines, vaccines and popular consumer products such as Beechams, Sensodyne, Savlon and Panadol. Every year we screen millions of compounds and make billions of packs of medicines and consumer healthcare products. The size and scope of our organisation allows our people to answer some of the worlds biggest questions – questions about future healthcare needs and questions about building a responsive, transparent business to meet them. We are committed to widening access to our products, so more people can benefit, no matter where they live in the world or what they can afford to pay.