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Consumer Healthcare R&D
Great achievements needn't be once in a lifetime. With the fast-paced innovation and entrepreneurial science that characterise our Consumer Healthcare R&D teams, we're able to improve the quality of people's lives worldwide every single day.
Manufacturing and marketing science-based consumer brands in the healthcare industry, our Consumer Healthcare business reaches millions of people all over the world.
The driving force behind this business is science. With dedicated R&D centres and regulatory affairs teams, we take scientific innovation as seriously as marketing excellence. And we offer leading-edge capability in both.
Ours is a team of people with extraordinary skills. And with the full resources of a parent company dedicated to scientific endeavour, we are able to secure outstanding achievements in our work. It's an environment that appeals to the best people in science and the industry, and will allow you to enjoy the opportunities that come with doing your best.
Our business
With nearly $5 billion in sales, over ten $100 million brands and a presence in 130 markets, our Consumer Healthcare business brings an added dynamic dimension to GSK. Operating in the fiercely competitive environment of retail and consumer marketing, we bring oral healthcare, healthcare, over-the-counter medicines and nutritional healthcare products to millions of people around the world. Our products are sold principally across grocery and pharmacy trade channels, and we market our brands across the full regulatory spectrum, from prescription through to free sale.
You'll already be familiar with many of our brands. Panadol, Lucozade and Aquafresh toothpaste, as well as Nicorette/Niquitin smoking cessation products are household names around the world. In a single year, we'll produce nine billion tablets to relieve stomach upsets, six billion tablets for pain relief and 600 million tubes of toothpaste, among many other things.
Culture
At Consumer Healthcare R&D, you'll find talented people from diverse backgrounds, all working together to provide the expertise, dedication and imagination we need to enjoy success well into the future.
What sort of qualities do we look for? We look for individuals with daring spirits and inquisitive minds - and people who are keen to make the most of all the opportunities we offer for personal and professional growth.
At the same time, we're committed to giving you a healthy work-life balance. So what you do on your own time is just as important to us as what you do on ours.
Why should you join us?
As a scientist in Consumer Healthcare R&D, you'll have the opportunity to affect millions of people's lives around the globe, every single day.
At the same time, the demanding pace of changing consumer needs means you get to work on a variety of projects throughout your career, as well as enjoying shorter lead times and quicker, more visible results.
You'll also get exposure to all parts of the new product development process, gaining experience across a wide range of activities from when the product is conceived right through to its appearance on the shelves.
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