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Quality Assurance & Quality Control (Multiple Roles and Locations) Industrial Placement, 2027
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To maximize your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.)
We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests, and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.
Roles Available in Location: Worthing, GSK HQ
Education Required
Supply chain, Business, Management
Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.
Other Requirements
- You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement.
- You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.
- Before applying, you'll need to obtain an application code by completing a short activity in Connectr, our candidate engagement platform.
- If you have already graduated with a bachelor’s degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.
- Written and spoken fluency in English
Expected Start Date
July 2027
Duration
1 year (approximately)
Salary
A salary of £28,900 (London) or £26,400 (all other locations) plus a bonus.
Workplace Arrangements
Full time on site required
Application Closing
Roles are expected to close on 13/10/2026, however, candidates will be reviewed regularly, and the advert may close at any point. Please ensure you review and complete the application stages below.
Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
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 tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.
What do we offer you?
- A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.
- Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.
- Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalize your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections, and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings, and financial wellbeing support.
- Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.
- Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance.
- Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.
- Access to IPUnite, which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking, and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.
- 2 volunteering days per year
Typical Skills You Can Expect to Learn on This Placement
- Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
- Communication (written & verbal)
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Networking
- Data analysis and management
- Technical skills (detailed within each role description)
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The Roles (2)
Role 1 – Quality Systems and Validation Compliance - Worthing
Degree Requirements
Supply chain, Business, Management
Workplace Arrangements
Full time on site required
Overview of the Department
The Quality Systems and Validation Compliance department is responsible for ensuring compliance to company processes and industry requirements and managing the lifecycle of our drug product from initial qualification through to ongoing commercial marketing. As an established product, this requires ongoing license maintenance with supplied markets, and qualification of new equipment and/or processes to improve manufacturing efficiencies.
Key Placement Learnings
- Work with other departments (Technical, Engineering, Operations) to support equipment qualification activities and projects.
- Write, review, and approve validation lifecycle documentation and ensure they comply with relevant Good Manufacturing Practice and industry requirements.
- Facilitate the team tiered accountability meeting and identify improvements through the use of data analytics.
- Build knowledge of industry expectations for equipment and process validation.
Role 2 – Digital Quality Systems – GSK HQ
Degree Requirements
Open to all degrees
Workplace Arrangements
Flexible working via performance with choice (office and home working available)
Overview of the Department
The team is responsible for the business ownership and stewardship of digital quality systems that support R&D activities. Our role is to ensure these systems remain compliant, reliable, and aligned to business needs over time. We focus on how systems are used in practice — driving adoption, managing change, and continuously improving how quality processes are enabled through technology. This includes shaping system enhancements, supporting inspection readiness, and ensuring solutions deliver sustained value rather than just initial deployment. The team works closely with both business and technical stakeholders to connect regulatory requirements, user needs, and digital capability.
Key Placement Learnings
During this placement, you will gain valuable experience in digital systems management, business analysis, and continuous improvement within a regulated healthcare environment. Key learning opportunities include:
- Developing an understanding of how digital systems are managed and governed, including compliance requirements, validation processes, and risk-based decision-making.
- Building analytical and problem-solving skills by assessing system performance, reviewing user needs, and identifying opportunities to enhance system effectiveness and user experience.
- Gaining hands-on experience in data analysis and reporting, using system usage and performance insights to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strengthening stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills by working across business and technology teams to gather requirements, support testing activities, and contribute to successful system enhancements.
- Enhancing communication skills through the translation of technical information and data insights into clear, practical recommendations and documentation for a variety of stakeholders.
- Learning about the full digital system lifecycle, from requirements gathering and impact assessments through to implementation, adoption, maintenance, and ongoing optimization.
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These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2027:
- Complete Connectr activity – obtain your personal code - please follow this link to complete.
- Eligibility Form – enter your personal code.
- GSK Digital Assessment.
- Some technical roles may require a short technical assessment.
- Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview.
Note: Your Connectr application code is unique and must not be shared. Using someone else's code, or sharing your own, may result in your application being withdrawn.
You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.
We’re 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it’s the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.
For more information about GSK and our careers, please visit our website here.
Need help with your application? Please email us at UK.InternRecruitment@gsk.com or call us on 01582 692870 and let us know how we can help you.
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Skills
Data Integrity, Detail-Oriented, Digital Fluency, GxP Regulations, Lean Management, Problem Solving, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), Risk Awareness, Testing Operations
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders, and our people.
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We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities.
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