HR Placement

Job Details

HR Placement

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
• 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 (3 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 – R&D Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Talent

Overview of the Department

You will work with the R&D (Research and Development) Early Talent Team to ensure the Global 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.

Key Placement Activities

• Supporting Onboarding programme for new employees starting in R&D.
• 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.
• Assist in collation and tracking of metrics to support recruitment and the diversity agenda.
• 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.

Role 2 – Global Finance Capabilities HR

Overview of the Department

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.

Key Placement Activities

• 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 enrol in relevant training.
• Development of communications and marketing for Finance developments events both in the UK & Globally.

Role 3 – Early Careers Recruitment

Overview of the Department

You will support the Early Careers Recruitment (ECR) team to engage, attract and hire high quality, qualified candidates across our Early Careers pipelines – including Apprentices; Interns (including Industrial Placements), and Graduates – with a continuous focus on DE&I (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). 

This role will allow you to develop an understanding of how & why we recruit talent to help delivery GSK’s ambitions; the wider Early Careers & talent landscape; the impact of work on internal and external stakeholder groups; and how we fit within wider HR and GSK.

Key Placement Activities

• Support Attraction Specialist with UK (and global) ET Website content refresh and ongoing updates.
• Ensure all UK ETR roles are posted through partner sites – including university/school websites.
• Coordination of Events - such as ‘Careers Collaboration’ (for University Careers Advisers) and ‘GSK Revealed’ (for first year students).
• Attend and run Apprentice career insights events / webinars directly & / or through partners.
• Engage and leverage current Early Talent (Apprentices, Interns, Grads) to attend attraction & engagement events.
• Internal Ambassador Training development and delivery (under supervision of Attraction Specialist).
• Proactive management of Video My Job training and edits before roles are live on our website.
• Creating new content where appropriate - supporting Social Media campaigns & update engaging content on partner websites.
• Create / share ‘News’ and articles to share through recruitment process (working with comms / brand).

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

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

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

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