Manufacturing operations
Manufacture vaccines and medicines that help improve lives
We are looking for highly motivated science and engineering graduates who are keen to develop into operational, quality, technical and supply chain experts within our pharmaceutical manufacturing sites.
Are you a graduate with strong problem-solving and influencing skills and a keen interest in production, quality, and supply challenges? Help us to ensure we have the latest, safe, efficient, and reliable processes and equipment to deliver medicines and vaccines all over the world.
Our manufacturing operations, quality, environment health & safety (EHS) and supply chain graduate programmes will challenge and support you in growing professionally and personally.
You will:
- Develop your expertise across manufacturing, quality and / or supply chain of vaccines and medicines that transform people’s lives
- Increase manufacturing efficiencies, actively engage in production operations and drive problem resolutions
- Support safety and ergonomic initiatives
- Provide focus on energy management and sustainability projects
- Keep abreast of innovative technologies
- Interact with other graduates and senior leaders to build your career network
- Receive a generous personal development budget
If you are a talented and motivated graduate with the ambition to make an impact on people's lives, this programme will provide you with the critical skills you need to pursue a career in manufacturing, quality and supply chain within the pharmaceutical industry.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Get a good understanding of our pharmaceutical and vaccines business on a tailored development programme
- Discover how manufacturing, quality function, technical services and supply chain work together
- Learn about the innovative technologies used in vaccines & pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Follow our medicines and vaccines through the entire manufacturing process
- Learn about the challenges of working in a highly regulated and controlled environment
- Be part of a diverse network, working with graduates from all over the world
You will need:
- A bachelors or masters degree in a relevant discipline
- Clear enthusiasm and motivation for production operations, quality, and logistics processes in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
- A continuous improvement and growth mindset
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- A team player with the ability to build collaborative relationships
- Self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, keen to develop and learn
- Fluent in English and primary location language
Quality science
Work behind the scenes on developing quality products that can help us get ahead of disease together.
Are you an ambitious, driven, and adaptable science graduate inspired to further the impact of medicines and vaccines on the world?
Join our quality science graduate programme that will enable you to gain brand new insights and further your interest, and experience working in a highly regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Benefit from a generous personal training budget to support your development
- Spend time in the quality departments at our manufacturing sites
- Learn about raw material, finished product, sterility, and environmental testing
- Learn about quality control at our sites – understand how different elements of the process interact to ensure the quality of our products is always preserved
- Work with our external support team, or with local operating companies to launch new products or testing methods
- Build your knowledge of our medicines and dosage forms as well as your industry regulatory knowledge
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address quality issues and implement corrective actions
You will need:
- A bachelors or masters degree in a relevant discipline
- A continuous improvement and growth mindset
- Clear enthusiasm and motivation for production operations, quality, and logistics processes in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- To be a team player with the ability to build collaborative relationships
- To be self-motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, keen to develop and learn
- Fluent in English and primary location language
Environment, health & safety
Help keep people safe and have a positive impact
Help keep our organisation safe and reduce our environmental impact, as we get ahead of disease together.
Are you a graduate with an interest in industrial health, safety, and the environment? As an environment, health & safety (EHS) graduate, you will play a vital role keeping our people safe at work; building a healthy, high-performing workforce, ensuring the utmost safety standards, and helping to reduce our environmental impact.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Expand your skills in every aspect of industrial safety (EHS) on a tailored development programme, with a generous personal training budget
- Innovate to help us deliver best health & safety practices and reduce risk in our business
- Learn from safety experts and master new knowledge with the help and support of a great network
- Take responsibility for the delivery of vital industrial safety projects
- Input individually and as part of a team in ensuring our functions meet environment laws and regulations, building trust with our employees, customers, and patients
- Areas of work could include health and safety for those in labs, manufacturing, office and remote, air quality, risk assessments, hazardous waste management and emergency response planning
You will need:
- A bachelors or masters degree in a relevant discipline
- A continuous improvement and growth mindset
- To be a proactive graduate with a genuine interest in healthcare and industrial hygiene
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- To be a team player with the ability to build collaborative relationships
- To be self-motivated, enthusiastic, keen to develop and learn
- Fluent in English and primary location language
Supply chain & logistics
Deliver medicines that positively impact lives
Help us deliver billions of packs of medicines and vaccines every year, so we can make a lasting impact across the world.
Are you a motivated organised and proactive graduate with strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a can-do attitude? If so, you could be the perfect addition to our supply chain & logistics team.
Our supply chain & logistics graduate programme will challenge and support you in growing professionally and personally.
You will:
- Develop your expertise across manufacturing, quality and / or supply chain to deliver vaccines and medicines that transform people’s lives
- Learn how to deliver optimum value to the business and outstanding products to our patients
- Have stretching projects in business-critical roles that offer amazing insights into our end-to-end supply chain & logistics
You will have the opportunity to:
- Develop your experience in pharmaceutical supply chain management, while broadening your global business perspective
- Understand how our factories work to deliver quality products to our patients
- Help set up GSK's supply chain for new product introduction
- Work with suppliers to ensure our products get to the patient at the end of the supply chain
Your roles may include:
- Logistics, planning and scheduling roles to help us make and deliver the right products at the right time
- Bringing new products to the market through manufacturing to distribution and to the patient
- Global logistics management, cross border compliance and supply chain security
- Drive supply chain performance using digital, data and analytics
- Continuous improvement projects within inventory, distribution and warehousing, supply, and demand planning
You will need:
- A bachelors or masters degree in a relevant discipline
- A clear motivation to work in the pharmaceutical industry
- To be organised and have good attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills and enjoy working with data
- A drive to get things done and a willingness to learn
- A continuous improvement and growth mindset
- Effective communication skills
- To be a team player with the ability to build collaborative relationships
- Fluent in English and primary location language
