Internship - Specialty Care Marketing, Singapore (January to June 2025)

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline

Marketing & Communications
Rochester Park, Singapore
Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Specialty Care Business Area, Internship, 2025:

Education required: Undergraduate studying a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university, with a focus in Sciences, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Marketing, Communications or Business disciplines.

Other requirements: Must be enrolled at a SG university for the duration of your internship and doing a credit-bearing internship

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Internship period: January to June 2025

Application deadline: 30 August 2024. We recommend you apply as soon as possible. We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.

Looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today!

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact! You’ll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.


What will you do?

You will be required to support and assist marketing managers in the activities in relation to a strategic product portfolio:

  • Responsible for the communications and coordination with project agencies (both internal and external)

  • Assist in development of marketing materials

  • Localisation and preparation of promotional materials for Marketing Campaigns

  • Provide support to social media efforts

  • Getting approval and certification for marketing materials that is in line with industry and company guideline.

  • Analyse market trends and provide suggestions and tactical support to continuously innovate and keep up-to-date with the evolving environment

  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Sales and Medical to drive projects and achieve operational goals

  • Actively participate and contribute to team meeting discussions

  • Any other ad hoc tasks that may be required

  • You will manage spends across multiple functions, including marketing, manufacturing and research

What are we looking for?

  • Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written

  • Positive attitude with a keen interest to learn.

  • Ethically grounded due to the nature of information that you will be in contact with.

  • Proficient in use of IT and software/systems, ideally document management and database systems

  • Keen attention to details

  • Deadline-driven, flexible with self-reliance to work in an empowered environment

  • Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think and work independently, problem-solve, work in teams, and focus on delivering assigned work

What will you learn?

  • Learn more about the Pharmaceutical industry and acquire practical and technical knowledge on marketing and the commercial processes pivotal for operational successes

  • Understand what pharmaceutical marketing is and experience the day-to-day operations in marketing and running of the business

  • Materializing implementation of business strategies on paper into a real competitive market by being part of content and communications development in materials and activities

  • Develop business acumen skill sets through understanding the strategies applied in a competitive environment

  • Stakeholder Management - Opportunity to work with stakeholders across the organization including sales, marketing and medical

  • Business management Skills – Gain understanding on how to market a product in an ethical environment

  • Project Management Skills – Coordination and facilitation of different crucial elements of a business plan execution.

  • Discover individual’s strengths, interest and suitability for the commercial arena

What do we offer you?

  • Understand and experience the GSK Culture

  • Work with a diversified team of professionals

  • Implement technical knowledge and skills that you have acquired at school

  • Apply and develop soft skills such as interpersonal, communications and negotiation skills

  • Transport to and from site to MRT stations in centralised locations all across Singapore (only for manufacturing sites)

Let’s do this!

You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website.

Learn more about the application process:

You can learn more about GSK and our careers here https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/

Apply now!

Need help with your application?

Please email us at apac.earlycareers@gsk.com and let us know how we can help you.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.