Marketing Associate Placement

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Deadline: 30th November 2018
Salary: £19,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Market Research, Marketing
Location: South East
City: Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire

Marketing Associate Placement

Do you like responsibility and knowing that your actions will make an impact in the delivery of healthcare and medication?

MSD can give you an opportunity to do just that- by offering students the chance to have an input and make a difference to ensure that we continue ‘inventing for life’.

What will you be doing?

For 12 months, you will be joining dedicated and enthusiastic teams in one of our brands as a Marketing Associate, based at our site in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.

Currently placement students sit in Diabetes, Cardiovascular, and Specialty Care. Within your teams you will work cross-functionally with other parts of the business including medical, legal, finance, and creative as part of your average week and are encouraged to work with other disease areas! By working with the cross-functional team, you will be able to network across the business and discover the things you like and dislike to do, which may open doors in your future career.

The MSD Hoddesdon site will treat you as an equal to all other employees in our diverse workforce rather than a student. Your insight will be just as valued as anyone else’s as we’re all here for the same reason: finding new ways to create a healthier future. This placement will give you the responsibility you have always wanted but never necessarily received; you will be trusted with big projects that could maybe change lives!

This placement offers those students who are studying a sciences degree to apply their knowledge to a real life setting, without being laboratory based. For those that do not have a science background, this may be a push into an unknown field of pharmaceuticals, but it will broaden your knowledge and is an interesting and fast-changing market to be involved in.

Key responsibilities:

  • Supporting the marketing team in your respective brand(s)
  • Help bring digital into the everyday processes at MSD in line with brand objectives and customer needs
  • Operation of projects that will support the franchise and sales force including: deliverables, external meetings, asset development
  • Work alongside the cross-functional team including: business insights, creative services, medical and legal team to deliver good quality content to support the growth of your brand
  • Seeing the correct verification of work to keep within regulation guidelines
  • Lead on producing internal and promotional content in our Audio Visual studio
  • Lead a range of projects within the company both internally and externally

Key skills:

  • Team-worker
  • Proactive and motivated to get involved
  • Confident to take the initiative in finding new areas for development in the franchise
  • Having the confidence to provide a fresh perspective
  • Confident in leading a project
  • Working alongside others and communicating with people outside of your usual franchise
  • Ability to work on constructive criticism to improve your performance
  • Ability to mould your approach to things in order to complete a task to the set standards
  • Able to adapt approach in a continuously changing environment i.e. technology, NHS standards
  • Computer literacy
  • Time management

Requirements:

  • Working towards a minimum 2:1 in your degree
  • Degrees in business, marketing or sciences are preferred
  • Finishing your second year at University and returning to your degree at the end of your placement

Your role at MSD is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At MSD, we’re inventing for life.

Application process:

  1. Fill in our online application form here and submit your CV and cover letter
  2. If successful in step 1, you will be invited to take part in online tests in November
  3. If successful in step 2, you will be invited to take part in a telephone interview in November
  4. If you’ve impressed us in all 3 steps, we’ll invite you to an assessment centre in December where you will take part in a variety of activities and have the opportunity to gain a better insight into MSD
  5. If successful in the assessment centre a formal offer will be made and 7 days given to accept/decline

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to meet fellow students before commencing the placement and will partake in a handover period at the beginning of their placement with the current student.

About MSD

MSD is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where MSD has codified its 125-year legacy. MSD’s success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our core product categories include diabetes, cancer, vaccines and hospital acute care. We continue to focus our research on conditions that represent some of today’s most significant health challenges – like cancer, HIV, HPV, hepatitis C, cardio-metabolic disease, antibiotic-resistant infection and Alzheimer's disease, and we are on the front lines in the fight against emerging global pandemics, such as Ebola.

At MSD, we're applying our global reach, financial strength and scientific excellence to do more of what we're passionate about: improving health and improving lives.

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