Register Your Interest - Strategic Insights Student Placement

Joining our dedicated and expert team for 12 months as a placement student will support development of strong foundational skills for future success.

The Strategic Insights Team in the UK is responsible for all market intelligence, including data analysis, forecasting, performance monitoring and metrics tracking across our organisation’s product portfolio as well as all market research completed in UK. Successful students will get involved in all aspects with responsibility for distinct areas.. We work closely with Marketing, Sales and Finance to support market understanding and effective customer engagement to ensure focus on adding value to our customers through clear communication and partnerships. Ultimately, all working to enable more patients have access to treatment to improve health outcomes. As a team, we play a critical role in guiding business decisions, tactical planning and evaluate of performance across all channels.

Success candidates will gain valuable opportunities and experience both within the role and working collaboratively across many business groups, providing a superb opportunity to learn about the dynamics across the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

This role will be based in London on an Hybrid working arrangement.

Duties:

• To support delivery of Company and product performance level reporting
• Delivery of regular sub-national sales and channel performance reports for promoted products
• Analysis and insight on key performance indicators to aid marketing decision making
• Manage sales bonus and incentive tracking across all company sales teams
• Support Business Insights Leads with adhoc Marketing and Sales analysis in response to strategic and tactical business questions
• Manage key data sources to ensure timely and accurate provision of sales and activity information across the company
• Engage in development and delivery of market research projects alongside the Business Insight leads
• Support in the production of management presentation and planning summaries
• Support end-users with training and support on multiple platforms and dashboards

Requirements:

• You will be looking to complete a 12-month student internship as part of your undergraduate degree
• Studying a degree in Maths, Business related or STEM disciplines (or equivalent qualification)
• Studied Maths, business related and/or STEM at A-Levels (or equivalent qualification)
• Demonstrates numerical and analytical skills both in terms of data and people
• Preferred Microsoft office skills: Excel, PowerPoint
• Desirable data visulisation tools : PowerBI / Tableau / Spotfire

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.