Communications Placement

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Communications (Multiple Roles & Locations) Placement

To apply for this placement, you must be:

Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Marketing, Business, Humanities, Communications, Sociology, Psychology, English, HR, Media or related

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 2025

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary: A salary of £27,000 (GSK HQ) or £24,700 (all other locations) plus a bonus.

Application Closing: 16th October 2024

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.

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)
• 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. 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 and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

The Roles (4 available)

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each role carefully before proceeding as you will be asked to provide a preference later in the application process.

Role 1 – Strategy & Change Communications

Roles available – Barnard Castle

Overview of the Department

A communications placement at Barnard Castle will give the successful candidate an opportunity to support the internal communications plan and activities for the site. Working within our communications team, you have the opportunity to produce and deliver high quality materials to support leaders in their cascade of messaging and drive staff engagement. 

The Barnard Castle site is located in the Northeast of England is sited within the County Durham countryside. Barnard Castle is a key site for GSK with a large number of New Products coming through development at site. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from Sterile Products (Syringes and Vials) to Liquid Inhalations and Dermatologicals. We have recently opened a new state of the art aseptic digital facility producing biopharmaceuticals.

Key Placement Activities

• Keeping employees at all levels informed of change, performance and progress at the site
• Being involved in delivering the site’s communications strategy
• Drafting news stories, case studies and features for internal and external communications channels from digital to print using multiple platforms.
• Preparing materials from posters to videos
• Organising town halls, site conferences and specific campaigns
• Creating clear and consistent messages using multiple communication platforms.
• Interacting with different levels of the business to ensure the appropriate approach is taken to engage staff across all functions
• Utilising and improving current digital platforms

Role 2 – Communications Officer

Roles available – Ware

Overview of the Department

The Ware Communications team support GSK's Global Supply Chain site with all communications activities, creating campaigns and content, offering counsel and advice, and coaching leaders and Early Talent to be better communicators. We are a small team, made up of a Site Communications Lead and a Communications Officer. Working closely together, we work with all functions and Value Streams on site, with our R&D colleagues on the Ware campus, and central Communications & Government Affairs teams to bring our GSK narrative and GSC 2030 Ambition to life for everyone who works at Ware.

Key Placement Activities

• Create written, visual and video content for use in our site communications channels, e.g. e-newsletters, announcements, Workplace, plasma screens, posters, briefings
• Organise site events, e.g. workshops, Employee Resource Groups, global awareness days
• Ensure employees at all levels of the business are up to date on change, progress and performance at the site.
• Understand how to use communications to embed the culture, mindset and behaviours demanded by our values
• Support development, execution and measurement of creative campaigns that bring our GSC 2030 ambition to life.
• Develop skills in communications fundamentals: writing and editing skills, visual and brand identity, video creation and editing, and multimedia including the GSK Intranet
• Responsible for channels management: digital, ambient and in-person

Role 3 – Communications & Events

Roles available – Worthing

Overview of the Department

Sitting within the GPS and Strategy departments at Worthing, you will report directly to the Communications & Events Manager, ensuring that site communications support the team’s strategic goals and objectives. You will have the opportunity to develop rapport and build relationships with staff at all levels of the business and will build on your existing communication skills through creating engaging communications materials, both print and digital. Using tools such as Photoshop and other video editing software, you will engage in designing a range of innovative materials, such as presentations and video correspondences.

Key Placement Activities

• Delivering the site’s communication strategy in order to ensure employees are kept up to date regarding the site, including change, performance and progress.
• Organising site events, such as conferences, and leading site-specific campaigns.
• Writing, designing and delivering important presentations.
• Managing the weekly newsletter
• Drafting news stories, case studies and features for internal and external communication channels, including both digital and print.
• Preparing various site communications materials, from posters to videos and others as required.
• Develop creative skills by designing innovative communications for internal employees and external stakeholders.

Role 4 – Communications and Government Affairs

Roles available – GSK HQ

Overview of the Department

Our Communications and Government Affairs (CGA) function in GSK builds engagement and belief in GSK and its purpose, strategy and culture – internally and externally. In CGA, you have the opportunity to protect and enhance our reputation, ensure our story is told accurately and consistently, bring external viewpoints into the company and partner with our business on developing policy and positions. CGA has a critical role in growing and supporting the GSK business for the benefit of patients. 

Our placements offer you the opportunity to work with one of our CGA teams, such as Digital Channels and Communications (UK & US), Emerging Markets, European Commercial Communications, Internal Engagement Communications, Research and Development Communications, and UK Commercial Communications and Government Affairs (CGA) to support the communications requirements of the business both internally and/or externally. The programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. You will improve your communication, analytical and influencing skills, alongside gaining commercial awareness working for a multi-national company at our head office.

Key Placement Activities

• To develop your writing and briefing skills for internal business and external audiences
• To work collaboratively with cross-functional GSK teams to develop communication materials, including key messages, campaign materials, briefing materials, visual/video assets for different audiences and different channels
• To research, monitor, analyse and interpret information that helps you understand healthcare trends and external insights and impact to our business
• To learn how to manage projects and effectively prioritise tasks and understand the business-critical role of CGA
• To have the opportunity to work in a multi-cultural setting and gain experience navigating a global organisation

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

1.      Eligibility Form

2.      World of GSK Online Assessment

3.      Written Assessment

4.      Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

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?

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

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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.

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.

For UK Intern roles (including Industrial Placements) you can either call us on 01582 692870, or send an email uk.InternRecruitment@gsk.com

For UK Apprentice and Graduate Programme roles (including Future Leaders Programme) you can either call us on 0203 862 2277, or send an email uk.EarlyTalentRecruitment@gsk.com

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About GSK

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 organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, itʼs also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together

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Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.

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