Technology - Future Leaders Programme, UK - 2021

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Exciting minds with our Future Leaders Graduate Programme - Technology

Educationrequired: BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security, Mathematics/Statistics, Data Science/Data Analytics, or Software Engineering. Graduation by Spring/Summer 2021

Other requirements: To give accelerated development opportunities, we expect Future Leaders to be geographically mobile (when joining and on the programme for each rotation). 

Start date: September 2021

*You can apply to only one Future Leader Program in the UK

Application deadline: We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and offer positions on a first come, first served basis.

Want to solve some of the world's biggest health challenges?

Put your degree to work here. With over 300 years of innovation behind us, we're a science-led global healthcare company that delivers billions of innovative products each year. This could be just the start for you and your career.

We're looking for leaders of the future in Technology

Are you a graduate with great tech know-how, who can help us empower our people and drive our business? We have exciting new partnerships with cutting-edge companies - and we're reinventing how we serve our patients, healthcare professionals and our consumers across our 3 businesses: Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare.

This is a rare opportunity to develop your skills and learn about the latest technologies and business processes in a dynamic healthcare environment. You'll also discover the best ways to deliver key agile solutions and work collaboratively to implement our tech strategy.

Develop your career

Once you're in, you can develop your career and explore what interests you most. Put your tech know-how and enthusiasm to use, and continue to build both as you experience different areas of our Tech business and get to grips with diverse innovations.

Through three varied and challenging rotations, you'll work on live projects and learn from industry experts. Spend two years exploring different teams with a variety of technological focuses. And, as you work, you'll develop key tech skills, build helpful networks - and create exciting solutions.

Tailored training - and great career progression

We'll tailor your training and development to suit your talents and ambition, as well as our business needs, setting you up for success in your chosen niche. After you complete our Future Leaders Program, you'll have the skills to become a tech leader of the future, with a solid foundation for a variety of business and tech careers within healthcare. There's no limit to how far you can go with us - it's up to you to prove yourself.

What You Can Expect from the Tech Future Leaders Programme?

The chance to undertake roles focusing on our 5 key strategic capabilities: Big Data, Cloud, Cyber Security, Product Management and Software Engineering

Contribute to maximum strategic and operational value

Accelerate your development through tailored training that is intuitive to you and your needs

Develop fresh thinking and innovative new ideas within your team

Build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Implementing innovative, sustainable ways of working that drive business performance

Unlock the value of emerging technologies to transform the way GSK interacts with employees, patients and consumers

Continuously improve our systems to support vital business processes

Join an international community of like-minded graduates who, alongside their day jobs, help shape and run the Future Leaders Program, for example, organizing hackathons, running global tech debates with external leading experts, and more

You'll need:

To be a talented, ambitious graduate with great technology skills

Fresh thinking with innovative new ideas that boost productivity and efficiency

To be hungry to learn and develop into a leadership position

A strong interest in a career in the healthcare industry

Our Future Leaders Programme is designed to accelerate the development of graduates who don't have significant previous professional work experience in the area to which they are applying.  Of course, many graduates who join the program have worked while studying or after graduation.  If you've already developed substantial experience working in a professional role in your sector, while you would be able to apply for this program, you may also want to look at direct entry roles in our businesses, as these may be the best way to build on your existing skills and expertise and develop a career at GSK.

Tech within GSK

Tech at GSK is undergoing a period of change and transformation: GSK has the ambition to become a leader within the pharmaceutical industry in the application of digital technologies to drive a step change in performance and competitive advantage.

As an organization, GSK is looking to create maximum strategic and operational value from our five key tech capabilities: Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product Management. Within these strategic areas, we see this work touching upon established and emergent technologies, including the transition to digitized data (vs. paper-based), Data Science and Analytics, next-generation/cloud computing, sensors and the internet-of-things, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Benefits include:

A competitive base salary

An annual bonus based on company performance

Relocation Allowance (eligibility will be confirmed once your first location is confirmed)

Access to healthcare and well-being programs, pension plan membership, savings programs, time off and childcare support

Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements

Long-term incentives through shared ownership link your rewards to our longer-term performance

On-the-job experience and formal and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring and formal training programs

Get to grips with our recruitment process

Watch the video at the top of this page and you'll find tips on our website.

Apply now

You'll be asked for your personal information and why you want to work for us. We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and offer positions on a first come, first served basis.

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We're 100% open to all talent

We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, color, race, sexual orientation, nationality or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and consumers. And also because it's the right thing to do.

Need help with your application?

Please email us and let us know how we can help you. Or email us your number and we'll call you back. We'll make all reasonable modifications to support you throughout the recruitment process and we'll treat all information you give us in confidence. Please get in touch to help us process your application as soon as possible.