Research & development

The work of biostatistics underpins GSK R&D's ability to make high quality decisions across the medicines and vaccines product development lifecycle, leading to lower late-phase attrition rates, greater probability of first cycle approval, and efficient manufacturing processes for medicinal products.

Develop your career with us

As a graduate in the biostatistics team, you can expect to:

• Work alongside a team of industry-leading statisticians and multi-disciplinary experts to accelerate the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines.

• Learn how to design, analyse and report clinical trial studies.

• Apply statistical analysis and reporting skills for data driven decisions to increase study and programme success.

• Produce compelling analytics and visualisations to improve the presentation and interpretation of results.

• Handle and analyse complex data sources to uncover valuable insights.

• Use data modelling techniques to answer key business questions across development.

• Become familiar with industry-wide best practices and help define and support the use of standards across the clinical programming function.

• Experience three eight-month rotations as per role requirements, providing diverse exposure and learning opportunities.

Are you who we're looking for?

We are looking for someone who: 

• Has a master’s degree in statistics, with a strong biostatistics or medical statistics focus.

• Is proficient in statistical coding and analysis with R experience being essential.

• Is analytical, innovative, and possesses a flexible mindset.

• Has the ability to deal with complexity comfortably and demonstrates strong problem-solving ability.

• Has the ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively.

• Has effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Is resilient with a ‘can-do’ attitude with scientific reasoning.

• Has an interest in the analysis of scientific data, with a sharp eye for detail and high quality. 

 Clinical operations

Join us as a R&D clinical delivery graduate at GSK, where you'll have real accountability from day one. You'll be involved in planning and leading the delivery of studies, ensuring they are on time, of a high quality, within budget and aligned with company standards and scientific requirements.

Develop your career with us

As a graduate in the clinical operations team, you can expect to:

• Learn about the end-to-end drug development process.

• Contribute to delivering medicines and vaccines to patients worldwide.

• Gain diverse experience in clinical research across a variety of therapeutic areas.

• Develop your business skills and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Learn to manage projects and prioritise tasks effectively.

• Collaborate within a global matrix organisation, building a strong network of contacts.

• Undertake either two twelve-month rotations, or three eight-month rotations, depending on the role requirements, allowing you to explore different aspects of clinical delivery.

Are you who we're looking for?

If you’re a motivated and proactive graduate with a passion for science and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a degree in a relevant scientific discipline (for example life sciences or pharmacy).

• Has a genuine passion for science and a desire to improve global health outcomes.

• Has the ability to adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

• Has strong communication skills and the ability to promote effective decision-making.

• Has excellent influencing and negotiation skills.

• Has the ability to build relationships at all levels, both internally and externally.

• Has effective problem-solving and collaborative skills.

• Has project management and critical thinking skills. 

Data science

As a data scientist, you'll use data to uncover answers and deliver insights that help us get ahead of disease. We are at the forefront of innovation, using advanced analytics, data science, and machine learning to create transformational medicines for patients.

Develop your career with us

Our graduate programme will help you to generate insights using advanced analytics, data science, and machine learning to create transformational medicines for patients.

As a graduate in the data science team, you can expect to:

• Experience key areas of medicine design, such as computational sciences, biopharma 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 make a real impact on our drug development pipeline.

• Collaborate with partners to develop testable hypotheses and deliver data analysis that enables informed decision-making.

• Influence scientific business decisions with data-driven insights.

• Evaluate and implement new data solutions with business and tech partners.

• Develop skills to perform analysis on multi-parametric datasets to progress biopharmaceutical medicine design and development, using state-of-the-art platforms and capabilities.

• Experience three eight-month rotations, allowing you to explore different areas within data science.

Are you who we're looking for?

If you’re a passionate and driven graduate who is excited about using data to transform healthcare, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a bachelor's or master's degree in data science, computer science, maths, or a scientific/engineering discipline with a strong numerical/computational component.

• Has a passion for the design and discovery of transformational medicines.

• Has a 'disruptive' mindset, proposing new and innovative approaches to challenging scientific problems.

• Has experience using numerical/computational methods for quantitative data analysis.

• Has an understanding of how to incorporate scientific principles into data analysis.

• Has a proactive, self-motivated, and flexible approach with a talent for multitasking and adapting to change.

• Has the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Regulatory affairs

Join our regulatory affairs graduate programme, where you'll play a vital role in ensuring our medicines and vaccines meet the highest legal standards. The regulatory affairs team is dedicated to ensuring the quality and efficacy of our medicines and vaccines; and provide expert advice on legal and scientific requirements, maintaining compliance and striving for excellence.

As part of the team, you'll be involved in collecting, collating, and evaluating scientific data to confirm the quality and efficacy of our products. You'll also keep abreast of changing global health authority requirements to stay ahead in a dynamic regulatory landscape as well as meeting stringent standards for clinical trial registration and marketing approvals worldwide. This work is crucial in enabling us to deliver medicines to patients globally.

Develop your career with us

The programme offers the opportunity to work cross-functionally and globally, gain unparalleled insight and provide expert guidance.

As a graduate in the regulatory affairs team, you can expect to:

• Gain varied experience across regulatory affairs.

• Learn about drug development and registration.

• Enable medicines to reach patients worldwide.

• Manage projects and prioritise tasks effectively.

• Develop your business skills and industry knowledge.

• Build your knowledge of the drug development process, as well as regulatory agency guidelines and expectations.

• Experience two six-month rotations and one twelve-month rotation supporting areas such as Global Regulatory Operations (GRO), Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), and/or the UK and Ireland business, as per role requirements.

• Learn about the principles of regulatory agency review processes.

Are you who we're looking for?

If you’re a talented gradate with an ambition to impact billions of lives, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a bachelor's degree in a life science discipline.

• Understands the pharmaceutical industry.

• Is a self-starter and engenders a can-do attitude.

• Possesses sharp analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail.

• Is flexible to adapt to a complex, fast moving and challenging environment.

• Exhibits confidence and strong communication skills.

• Has the ability to build good working relationships with effective collaborative skills.