Biostatistics
The work of Biostatistics underpins GSK R&D's ability to make high quality decisions across the product development lifecycle, both pharma and vaccines, leading to lower late-phase attrition rates, greater probability of first cycle approval and reliable manufacturing processes for producing medicinal products at acceptable cost.
Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for the Biostatistics graduate programme at GSK today!
You will have the opportunity to:
- Collaborate with top clinical scientists and operational experts in the delivery of clinical trial results to progress medicines through drug development
- Gain insights into defining programming strategies for clinical trial reporting and regulatory submissions (planning and execution)
- Receive training in SAS, R and other programming languages and then be asked to apply your newly acquired skills for hands on analysis and reporting of clinical trial data, in adherence to study protocols and statistical analysis plans
- Explore and handle complex data sources
- Apply modelling techniques to data in order to answer business questions across development
- Produce analytics and visualisations to improve presentation and interpretation of results
- Develop tools (applications and coding packages) to support modern biostatistics ways of working
- Become familiar with industry-wide best practice and help to define and support the use of standards across the clinical programming function
You will need:
- An analytical, innovative and flexible mindset
- The ability to deal with complexity comfortably
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- A resilient and ‘can do’ attitude with scientific reasoning
- An interest in the analysis of scientific data, a keen eye for detail and high quality
- Experience with at least one programming language (R, Python or SAS)
Clinical operations
Our mission in global clinical delivery, is to unite science, talent and technology to accelerate the provision of high-quality clinical data to deliver the medicines and vaccines pipeline.
We are looking for motivated individuals in R&D clinical operations. If you are a graduate with the passion to take accountability for planning and leading the delivery of a study to ensure it is delivered on time, to a high quality, within budget and all in line with company standards and scientific requirements, then this is a role for you!
You will have the opportunity to:
- Learn about the drug development process
- Enable medicines and vaccines to reach patients worldwide
- Gain broad experience across the field of clinical research
- Develop your business skills and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
- Learn to manage projects and prioritise tasks
- Work across a global matrix organisation
- Gain experience across a variety of therapeutic areas
You will need:
- To be a motivated and proactive graduate
- A passion for science and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients
- The ability to adapt to change
- Ability to understand and balance the broader business needs with the needs of the specific study
- Highly developed communication skills and the ability to promote effective decision making
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
- The ability to build internal and external relationships at all levels in a highly dynamic and matrixed environment
- Project management skills
- Creative thinker able to demonstrate through study delivery
- Effective problem solving and conflict resolution skills
Data science
Use data to uncover answers and deliver insights that can help us get ahead of disease.
We are looking for graduates in Data science
Are you ready to use data to develop results that amplify our science?
If so, then bring that enthusiasm here. Together, we can generate new insights that increase the probability of creating transformational medicines for patients using advanced analytics, data science and machine learning.
Develop your career with GSK
If you are a graduate with the desire to create big solutions that revolutionise treatment for patients, this is a role for you.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Gain exposure across key areas of medicine design through three rotations, example could include computational sciences, biopharm discovery and research technologies
- Learn how to integrate complex protein structure, pharmacological and biophysics data from a range of sources to deliver analytics that enable decision making in medicine design
- Learn how to de-risk and accelerate biopharmaceutical assets into clinical manufacture and onward late-stage development
- Develop exceptional skills in data science, visualisation and scientific communication
- Operate in multidisciplinary teams and deliver real impact
- Interact with partners to develop testable hypotheses and deliver data analysis that enables decision making at pace in medicine design and development
- Influence scientific business decisions using data to answer specific questions
- Collaborate with business and tech partners to evaluate and implement new data solutions
- Develop skills to perform analysis on multiparametric datasets to progress biopharmaceutical medicine design and development, while all the time gaining hands on experience using state-of-the art platforms and capabilities
You will need:
- A bachelors or masters degree in data science, computer science, maths, or scientific/engineering discipline with a strong numerical/computational component
- Passion for the design and discovery of transformational medicines
- A ‘disruptive’ mindset, proposing new and innovative approaches to challenging scientific problems
- Experience using numerical/computational methods for quantitative data analysis
- An understanding of how to incorporate scientific principles into data analysis
- A proactive, self-motivated, and flexible approach with a talent for multitasking and adapting to change
- A gift for building strong relationships with key stakeholders
Regulatory affairs
Help us maintain standards to positively impact lives
Help us make sure our medicines and vaccines are effective, and of a high quality. That is how we can deliver what matters most to our patients across the world.
We are looking for graduates in Regulatory affairs
Are you an analytical graduate who can help us ensure our medicines meet rigorous legal standards? This will be your challenge within our dedicated regulatory affairs department. It is here that we advise on legal and scientific requirements; collect, collate, and evaluate scientific data in order to confirm the quality and efficacy of our products – and keep track of changing global health authority requirements.
We have to meet stringent standards as part of the registration for clinical trials and marketing approvals across the world. You can be instrumental in this crucial process. Working with different areas of the function, other departments and colleagues from around the world, you will get an unparalleled insight into a critical team and the chance to provide expert guidance.
Develop your critical skills in a global biopharma company
If you are a graduate with the talent and ambition eager to make an impact on billions of lives, we will help you develop the expertise to become one of our GSK graduates. Over two years, our graduate programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. You will have stretching rotations supporting areas such as therapeutic, chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC), labelling or the UK and Ireland business. As you experience these varied fields of expertise, you will learn exactly what it takes to get a drug approved.
With access to first-class support and development opportunities, you will be well-equipped to start your professional career and make a meaningful impact at GSK
Learn more about a career in regulatory affairs.
One thing that excites me about regulatory affairs is that every day is different! Working with various functional teams and bringing together technical expertise to deliver compliant regulatory licenses for GSK's diverse portfolio has taught me so much.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Gain broad experience across the field of regulatory affairs
- Learn about drug development and registration on a tailored development programme
- Enable medicines to reach patients worldwide
- Manage projects and prioritise tasks
- Develop your business skills and understand our industry
- Build your knowledge of the drug development process, as well as regulatory agency guidelines and expectations
- Learn about the principles of regulatory agency review processes and more
- Take part in coaching sessions to support your development and training
You will need:
- A BSc or MSc/PhD in a Life Science
- To be a motivated and proactive graduate who is looking for a career in regulatory affairs
- A gift for building strong relationships with key stakeholders
- The ability to adapt to change
- An analytical mind with an eye for detail
- Excellent communication skills
- To be a natural team player
- A passion for science
