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To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.)
We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.
Roles Available in Location: GSK HQ
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Sciences Life Sciences, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Marketing, Biosciences, Medical, Pharmacy or Nursing.
Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.
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 2026
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £27,100 plus a bonus.
Workplace Arrangements: Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Application Closing: 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.
What do we offer you?
A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.
Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.
Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalise your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support.
Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.
Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance
Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.
Access to IPUnite which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.
2 volunteering days per year
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)
The Roles (9 available)
This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.
Role 1 - ViiV Medical Operations
Degree Requirement - Biomedical Sciences, Marketing & open to other degrees.
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
This role is an opportunity to join a function that stretches across all business functions, whether global, regional or local. During your placement with Medical Operations, you will have end-to-end ownership of assigned project deliverables such as the Virology Education Conference sponsorship programme, during which you will be working to map out the annual programme including publication overview, allocation of attendance, managing sponsorship benefits with regional/local leads globally (conferences can occur in any global location). This team is highly accountable, high functioning and delivers high profile projects under pressure.
Key Placement Learnings
Owning the end-to-end management of the Virology Education Conference sponsorship programme – working to map out the annual programme including publication overview, allocation of attendance, managing sponsorship benefits with regional/local leads globally (conferences can occur in any global location)
Participating in and assisting in running cross-functional strategic planning sessions
Multi-functional stakeholder management – engaging across the business on high profile projects
Stakeholder workstream management – attending workstream meetings and reporting back to the broader project lead team to ensure overall alignment to objectives • Agency liaison
Close working with the respective congress operations managers in order to support regional congress operating groups and ensure alignment to global strategy and tactical implementation, involvement of Tier 1 & tier 2 congresses.
Agency liaison, coordinating with external partners to support project delivery.
Collaboration with congress operations managers, supporting regional congress operating groups and ensuring alignment with global strategy and tactical implementation, including Tier 1 & Tier 2 congresses.
Evaluation of global strategy implementation, considering both medical and commercial perspectives.
Delivery of materials within local regulatory frameworks, ensuring compliance and effectiveness.
Role 2 - ViiV Medical Digital Coordinator
Degree Requirement - Open to any degree
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
Global Medical Digital drives and enhances the use of digital, data, analytics and AI solutions to complement and strengthen Medical’s ability to better understand, address and even anticipate the needs of those impacted by HIV. We work to transform ViiV's customer engagement in an era of rapid digital innovation and technological advancement, to drive competitive personalised experiences and accelerate towards ending the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Key Placement Learnings
Coordinating Content Lab activities
Working on generating AI based videos
Creating and maintaining SharePoint Sites
Data Management and Reporting activities
Researching and presenting on new medical digital technologies
Support the Global Medical Digital team in testing and optimising innovative and transformational digital and AI solutions that could address or even anticipate the needs of patients and HCPs.
Role 3 - ViiV Global Medical Affairs
Degree Requirement - Biomedical Sciences
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
Join a dynamic and fast paced medical affairs with a strong interface with the research and development team. Gain scientific expertise through interpreting and demonstrating the results of late-stage clinical trials and real-world data sets, as well as providing medical input for regulatory updates. This department supports drug safety teams in pharmacovigilance activities and provides medical expertise and guidance to commercial teams, feeding into the wider research and development strategy by monitoring competitor activity and seeking advice from Healthcare Professionals for regulatory updates.
Key Placement Learnings
Conduct literature searches and support development of internal and external medical training materials.
Collaborate across medical, commercial, and finance teams to gain cross-functional exposure.
Perform data gap analysis to inform clinical trial strategy while gaining research methodology experience.
Develop project management skills by coordinating with cross-functional teams on key initiatives.
Facilitate internal meetings, lead internal newsletters, and manage communications with creative agencies.
Contribute to administrative tasks including meeting planning and briefing agencies on medical projects.
Role 4 – ViiV Regional Medical Affairs
Degree Requirements - Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Pharmacy
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
The Regional Above country team consists of the Medical Strategy & Operations lead, 3 Regional Medical Leads (RML') supporting the ViiV brands, the Capabilities & Medical excellence lead, Patient Affairs lead and a supporting team. The team supports countries across Europe and International regions (which includes Latin America, Africa & the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Australia and Canada) and country medical affairs leads to deliver excellent scientific engagement.
Key Placement Learnings
Support the European above country medical affairs team of Regional Medical leads, Patient Affairs lead and the Medical Capabilities lead to provide training and materials.
Deliver above country activities such as advisory board, congress symposiums and medical educational workshops.
New starter medical on-boarding and training sessions.
Support community/patient advisory board meetings and other community outreach activities
Role 5 – ViiV Global Paediatric Medical Affairs
Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences preferred but open to other Life Sciences
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
This role is an opportunity to join the Global Paediatrics Medical Affairs team, which supports the overall mission of paediatrics across the portfolio, working closely with R+D, medical affairs, global commercial, scientific communications, and health outcomes group. ViiV has the aspiration to make HIV infections and AIDS rare events for children and adolescents and make HIV a smaller part of the daily lives of children, adolescents, and their caregivers. The successful candidate will gain experience of planning and delivering of paediatric medical affairs initiatives and activities for internal stakeholders (working with medical, research and development, sales, marketing, local operating companies) and external (health care professionals, advocacy and people living with HIV and their communities) customers.
Key Placement Learnings
Engaging in targeted literature reviews to enhance knowledge and identify key data gaps in paediatrics, while gaining a comprehensive understanding of the scientific process for generating evidence-based data.
Owning the end-to-end management of specific paediatric projects, tailored to specific interests and needs (examples include generation of African paediatric cohort tracker).
Assisting in the planning and development of global advisory boards, including managing external experts and collaborating with regional/local leads globally.
Actively participating in and contributing to cross-functional strategic planning sessions, fostering a solid comprehension of the role of Medical Affairs within the industry and cultivating project management skills.
Providing support in implementing the medical education strategy for paediatrics, ensuring effective delivery of educational initiatives.
Serving as a liaison with external agencies, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.
Role 6 – ViiV UK Medical and Patient Affairs
Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Chemistry
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
ViiV UK Medical Affairs - London Plan, develop and execute all medical and patient affairs operations for the UK. Operations include development of medical materials for health care professionals, running of national meetings, attendance at national and international conferences, coordination of ViiV clinical trials being run in the UK, disease awareness campaigns and community partnerships.
Key Placement Learnings
Execute Medical Affairs strategy and tactics.
Develop medical materials to be utilised at national congress and meetings.
Plan, develop and execute innovative new strategies to engage with the HIV healthcare community, for example, national meetings, community advocacy initiatives including leading on their own project.
Contribute to the development of impactful medical materials for health care professionals e.g. slide decks, videos, infographics.
Contribute to Patient Affairs operations.
Role 7 - ViiV Healthcare Regulatory Affairs
Degree requirements: Life-Sciences or equivalent
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
The ViiV Healthcare Regulatory Affairs team ensures the development, approval, and compliance of HIV medicines with global regulatory standards. Collaborating across functions and with regulatory authorities, the team plays a key role in bringing innovative therapies to market and supporting ViiV’s mission to live no person living with HIV behind.
Key Placement Learnings
Provide support to the team facilitating collaboration with service providers
Management of regulatory activities and related documentation
Participation in committee meetings with responsibility to present and communicate regulatory activities and interpretations of reports
Coordination of team meetings, minutes and reports
Develop an understanding of global regulatory affairs - Gain experience in problem solving and strategic planning
Learn to manage multiple projects and systems efficiently
Build strong interpersonal and communication skills
Build and maintain effective working relationships
Acquire the ability to work flexibly across different teams, balancing several projects simultaneously
Role 8 - Global Congress Strategy and Program Development
Degree requirements: Science, medicine, pharmacy, or a related field.
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
Global Congress Strategy in the Global Scientific Communications organization is responsible for driving annual congress planning across therapeutic areas. This team is pivotal in driving the development of TA-level congress plans, sponsorship decisions, and scientific narratives to enable the effective execution of all congress-related deliverables. This team ensures that all narratives and plans are aligned within the asset and across the TA, partnering closely with Medical and Commercial teams for delivery
Key Placement Learnings
Support to develop and drive TA-level congress plans and decision-making, including sponsorship decisions and the creation of scientific narratives.
Ensure all congress narratives and plans are aligned within the asset and across the TA, partnering closely with Medical and Commercial teams to deliver cohesive and strategic congress outcomes.
Support the team to evaluate and shape congress key performance indicators (KPIs) and share insights with teams to continually refine approaches, priorities, and investments
Experience developing and implementing strategic plans and narratives, including innovative technology tools to articulate scientific narratives.
Analytical skills and the ability to share insights to shape strategic approaches and investments.
Project management skills over multiple projects simultaneously meeting deadlines
Role 9 - Global Medical Affairs
Degree requirements: Biological, Biomedical Sciences or other life sciences
Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)
Overview of the Department
GSKs Global Medical Affairs (GMA) department ensures the safe and effective use of GSK’s pharmaceutical and vaccine products by providing accurate and up to date information to healthcare professionals and patients. GMA bridges clinical research and practice to enhance patient outcomes.
Areas available for role 1 include:
Speciality Therapy Area
General Medical Therapy Area
Oncology Therapy Area
Vaccines Therapy Area
Key Placement Learnings
Collaborating on enterprise-wide initiatives such as Business Planning, operational support and digital champions
Collaborating cross functionally on shared objectives with Commercial and R and D.
Developing medical strategies to support product development and commercialization.
Disseminating clinical data through publications, conferences, and educational materials.
Providing comprehensive medical information and educational programs.
Collaborating on clinical trial design and regulatory submissions.
Conducting post-market surveillance and managing adverse event reports.
Building relationships with key opinion leaders, healthcare professionals, and regulatory bodies.
Ensuring all activities meet regulatory and ethical standards.
Apply now!
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2026:
1. Eligibility Form
2. GSK Digital Assessment
3. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.
We’re 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it’s the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.
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Why Us?
At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV.
We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.
Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.
ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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