Register Your Interest - Corporate Affairs Student Placement

Register Your Interest - Corporate Affairs Student Placement

As part of the UK Corporate Affairs team, you will join our talented team of policy and communications professionals, focused on delivering our company’s strategic goals.We do this through impactful engagement – both externally, with our key stakeholders in health and life sciences, and internally, across our thriving employee base.As part of your placement, you will gain experience and insight into a broad range of communication disciplines and projects, as well as learning how a major healthcare company operates. You will be given opportunities to be part of project teams as well as the opportunity to lead and deliver on your own initiatives. The experience will provide a blend of project leadership, tactical implementation, and professional and personal learning opportunities.

We are a global biopharmaceutical leader committed to enhancing the lives of individuals through a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology treatments, life-saving vaccines, and animal health products. Our unwavering dedication to delivering innovative solutions is the driving force behind everything we do. With a team of over 70,000 employees spread across 140+ countries, we offer state-of-the-art laboratories and inspiring offices designed to foster growth and development in our team members.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring environmental developments in health and life sciences policy.
• Mapping stakeholder engagement and refreshing our corporate materials.
• Writing and coordinating our internal digital newsletter for employees, working across all parts of our UK business.
• Being an active part of project teams focused on delivering campaigns and events in both corporate policy and therapy policy areas, as well as internal events.
• Assisting with the development of creative and engaging communications materials, including using the AV studio.
• Developing event briefings and content for our social media accounts and website.

Requirements:

• You must currently be at university and will be looking to complete a 12-month student internship as part of your undergraduate degree.
• A keen awareness and interest in the UK healthcare environment.
• A passion for writing and engaging content creation.

About MSD

At MSD, we are inspired by a shared vision and mission to save and improve lives.

For 130 years, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives. We demonstrate our commitment to patients and population health by increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships. Today, we continue to be at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases that threaten people and animals — including cancer, infectious diseases such as HIV and Ebola, and emerging animal diseases — as we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world.

We are officially certified by the Top Employer Institute and been awarded the exclusive Top Employer United Kingdom Certification for the fourth year running.

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