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Sales and Marketing
GlaxoSmithKline is a leader in the worldwide consumer healthcare market. With nearly $5 billion in sales, over ten $100 million brands and present in 130 markets, the consumer healthcare business brings an added dynamic dimension to GSK.
Operating in the fiercely competitive environment of retail and consumer marketing GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare brings oral healthcare, over-the-counter medicines and nutritional healthcare products to millions of people.
Brand names such as Panadol, Beechams, Aquafresh, and NiQuitin smoking cessation products are household names around the world. In one year GSK Consumer Healthcare produces - among many others - nine billion tablets to relieve stomach upsets, six billion tablets for pain relief and 600 million tubes of toothpaste.
Marketing Industrial Placements - (you should be studying for a Marketing, Sales or business related degree or combined with any of these subjects).
- Work with senior managers on key marketing programmes such as packaging, online, promotions, pricing and new product development
- Keep marketing spend systems up to date, and monitor any under/over spends on advertising and promotions budgets
- Contribute to the preparation of business presentations and participate in key meetings
- Responsibility for co-ordinating and organising project meetings and actions, monitor and update
- Internal communication activities
Sales Industrial Placements - (you should be studying for a Sales, Marketing or business related degree or combined with any of these subjects).
- Works with Category Managers to deliver in store point of sale materials
- Drives development of key category brand initiatives
- Works with the sales team with sales data, category strategy developments and customer planning
- Working with IT help to deliver information sharing databases and communication tools
- Supports the planning of sales and marketing meetings, developments of trade presentations and NPD launch activities
- Internal communications activities
Please note that all our sales and marketing industrial placements will take place at our office in Brentford. Please see site locations for more details.
