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University: Cambridge
Degree type: BA in Management Studies (Part 1 in Modern and Medieval Languages)
Location: Stockley Park

How long have you been at GSK?
I joined GSK in September 2005.

What made you apply to GSK?
The fundamental nature of pharmaceutical marketing, working with the NHS to ensure that patients receive the right medication for the right reason, really appealed to me. When choosing a company, GSK felt like the obvious choice as the company not only works in the developed world, but excels in its not-for-profit work, contributing to a number of international and local projects to help improve life for under-privileged individuals.

What made you apply to the Commercial Development Programme?
The rotational placement structure of the commercial marketing and sales programme offers great exposure very quickly. Getting that breadth of experience early in your career really helps you to get to grips with what is a complex and dynamic environment. The scheme also offers significant responsibility from the word go – the prospect of continued challenge along with an opportunity to learn and develop made the scheme seem really attractive.

What was your first role?
My first role was as part of the Diabetes First brand team, helping to develop and deliver the new campaign for our field-based representatives to use to educate our customers on diabetes. This placement was a great way to learn the ropes of marketing – from working with various agencies to develop the materials, conducting market research to test them with customers and to finally rolling these materials out to the field-based representatives.

What have been your subsequent roles?
Currently I am based in the HIV team where I have been involved in raising awareness of our most recent clinical trial. The results of this trial promise to have a fundamental impact both on the way in which HIV patients are treated in the future, and potentially on GSK’s business therefore it is important to ensure that the results of this trial are published and promoted in the right way to ensure maximum impact. For this to happen this requires planning the PR strategy, the marketing strategy and ensuring that our promotional representatives are in a good position with the right materials and knowledge to drive business for GSK.

What is the company culture like for you?
GSK is a company that encourages pro-activity and passion and the culture of the company reflects this. Overall I have found GSK to be a place full of diverse, motivated and inspirational individuals and I am proud to be part of that. Working somewhere that you are happy is important and being surrounded by positive people at GSK, many of whom I’m pleased to call friends rather than colleagues, helps me achieve that.

What kind of support do you get?
The support network in GSK is very strong and I think this is a very positive feature of the company. Both at peer level, within my business unit, and across the UK business there are always people to turn to for advice and support.

What is your work/life balance like?
In my home life, sport is very important to me, therefore being unable to train would really get me down. Fortunately, the challenges of work still allow me to do all the things that I would normally do and I think this is really important. GSK’s policy on flexible working means that when you need to accomplish things outside the office, talking this through with your line manager and making appropriate arrangements is not a problem.

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