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 vast portfolio has taught me so much.
Research & development
Learn how you can excel in research & development on our graduate programme.
Kickstart your career in research and development at GSK, where you'll be at the forefront of scientific innovation, helping us get ahead of disease. Our early careers programmes offer diverse opportunities across various specialities, providing you with the chance to make a real impact on global health.
Here’s a look at the programmes on offer:
Biostatistics
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 on the programme, you can expect to:
- Work alongside leading clinical scientists and operational experts to deliver clinical trial results and advance drug development.
- Learn how to define programming strategies for clinical trial reporting and regulatory submissions, from planning to execution.
- Receive training in SAS, R, and other programming languages.
- Apply your skills to analyse and report clinical trial data, following study protocols and statistical analysis plans.
- Handle and analyse complex data sources to uncover valuable insights.
- Use data modelling techniques to answer key business questions across development.
- Produce compelling analytics and visualisations to improve the presentation and interpretation of results.
- Develop applications and coding packages to support modern biostatistics practices.
- 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 an analytical, innovative, and flexible mindset.
- Has the ability to deal with complexity comfortably.
- Has a strong problem-solving ability.
- Has effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Has a resilient and ‘can-do’ attitude with scientific reasoning.
- Has a keen interest in the analysis of scientific data, with a sharp eye for detail and high quality.
- Has experience with at least one programming language (R, Python, or SAS).
Clinical operations
Join us as an R&D clinical operations 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 on the programme, 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 operations.
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.
- 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 conflict-resolution skills.
- Has project management skills and a creative approach to study delivery.
- Has an understanding of how to balance broader business needs with the specific requirements of each study.
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 on the programme, 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 graduates who are 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 a gift for building 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 ensures our medicines and vaccines are effective and of a high quality; and provide expert advice on legal and scientific requirements, maintaining compliance and striving for excellence.
- Collecting, collating, and evaluating scientific data to confirm the quality and efficacy of our products.
- Keeping abreast of changing global health authority requirements to stay ahead in a dynamic regulatory landscape.
- Meeting stringent standards for clinical trial registration and marketing approvals worldwide, enabling us to deliver medicines to patients globally.
Develop your career with us
Join our graduate programme and be instrumental in this crucial process. You'll work cross-functionally and globally, gaining unparalleled insight and the chance to provide expert guidance. This is your opportunity to develop and expand your expertise across various areas within R&D regulatory affairs and learn what it takes to get a drug approved and develop critical skills.
As a graduate on the programme, 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 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, master's or PhD in a life science.
- Is a motivated and proactive graduate who is looking for a career in regulatory affairs.
- Has a knack for building strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Has the ability to adapt to change.
- Has an analytical mind with an eye for detail.
- Has excellent communication skills.
- Is a natural team player.
- Has passion for science.
