Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Planning Industrial Placement, UK 2025

1. The strategic planning of the Real Estate portfolio to keep up with market trends and ensure our facilities are in the right locations to support our business. 2. Collaborating with our Facilities Management suppliers to enable our WREF sites to deliver to our customer's needs. 3. Providing environments that are safe, legal, compliant, and sustainable. Key Placement Activities

• Support the development and implementation of workplace experience initiatives aimed at improving employee engagement and well-being.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business excellence, ensuring efficiency and value in workplace operations.
• Assist in the planning and execution of sustainability and corporate accountability initiatives, contributing to our goal of creating safe, responsible, and environmentally sound work environments.
• Contribute to research and analysis projects focused on emerging trends in real estate, workplace technology, and workplace design.
• Gain exposure to GSK's global workplace strategy, with the opportunity to support projects across multiple sites and regions.
• Participate in team meetings, provide updates on project progress, and present findings to senior leadership.
These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024: 1. Eligibility Form 2. World of GSK Online Assessment 3. Written Assessment 4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview You'll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here

Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Urban Planning, Property Management, Finance, Economics, Geography, Business Management or related. 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. If you have already graduated with a Bachelor's Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme. Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English, 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. Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:
• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)
Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK's community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

WREF in GSK is a global function with approx. 200 internal staff supported by a network of over 2,000 contract staff around the world. WREF's portfolio includes 259 sites (35.7m square feet), across 61 countries comprising 3.7m square feet and a budget of over £153m. The Workplace, Real Estate & Facilities (WREF) organization at GSK has undergone a significant transformation, realigning its strategic priorities to focus on creating inspiring, people-centric, tech-enabled, and innovation-led workplaces. With a global impact that touches the daily lives of approximately 30,000 employees-nearly 40% of GSK's workforce-WREF plays a pivotal role in shaping high-value, functional spaces that foster health, engagement, and productivity. Our mission is to create the world's healthiest, most inspiring workplaces, where performance and well-being are seamlessly integrated. We are committed to our three strategic priorities: Business Excellence, Experience & Wellbeing, and Corporate Accountability, each vital to the success of WREF and GSK's global goals., We're 100% open to ALL people We're 100% open to all talent - whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference 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 also because it's the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here., 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class
• (US only).
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.