Digital Marketing Placement - Transformation/Education

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Digital Marketing Placement - Transformation/Education

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

• Are you an ambitious and determinedindividual who takes initiative?
• Are you resolute and ready to lead projectswhilst being a part of a cross functional team?
• Are you passionateabout driving innovationthrough digital solutions?

The Medical Affairs Digital team you’ll join is a part of the Research & Innovation team and in this role you will be working with the Digital and Medical Education teams. We support the development and deployment of a novel and disruptive digital model focused on the creation of value and meaningful outcomes for stakeholders and patients through scientific exchange, insights gathering and data generation. The team also works to develop a world leading and pioneering strategy to deliver medical education outside of the business to our customers.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting digital and medical education projects that will help drive our company’s scientific engagement transformation model. This provides an outstanding opportunity to learn about the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and the major competitor companies within, which will build a strong foundation for success in your future.

A Day in the Life of a Digital Marketing and Medical Education Placement Student & Key Responsibilities

• Work in close collaboration with key people leading the digital transformation initiatives within medical affairs
• Develop partnerships & work with cross functional teams including medical affairs, business insights, business operations, marketing, creative and legal
• Project manage new and current digital innovations and medical education projects within medical affairs
• Support the Creation, development and approval of non-promotional medical education content for our Connect platform and webcasts, using UX and UI principles
• Collaborate with multiple therapy area medical teams in the filming, directing and editing of videos in either our own in-house AV studio or with external agencies.
• Support with the development of the evolving digital strategy
• Support the development and deployment of remote interactions through webcasting and virtual events
• Support our healthcare scientific digital communication channels (web-based and mobile) as they play a critical role in our non-promotional and scientific strategies
• Make tactical recommendations to the team through digital data and customer insights
• Lead on team internal communications through monthly internal highlights
• Complete user efficiency and compliance auditing

Work Experience

• Working in marketing, digital marketing or medical education-based disciplines
• Entering your third or penultimate year of study, returning to your degree course at the end of the placement
• Minimum B grade in marketing and/or business studies A level

Key Capabilities/Skills

• Ability to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing
• Strong understanding of marketing fundamentals
• Strong organisation and project management skills
• Team player, learning from and helping others overcome obstacles
• Strong sense of urgency takes initiative to do things without being asked
• Has a can-do attitude, anticipates problems and proposes solutions, approaches work challenges creatively with fresh ideas
• Listens and adapts to improve
• A self-starter who can be relied upon to work without supervision
• Experience on Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint (required); MS Project, BI and Visio
• Interest in education, and ‘thinks outside the box’ for sharing knowledge and improving the user experience across digital interfaces

Successful applicants will be provided with a formal job offer shortly after the final interview. You will also receive a handover period with the current placement student to ensure you are best prepared for the role.

Our presence in the UK goes back a long way. For over 80 years, we’ve been researching, developing and supplying new medicines and vaccines that prevent and treat diseases that occur at every stage of life. Today we're one of the top five biopharmaceutical companies in the UK and employ over 2,000 people across five sites in Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Buckinghamshire, Edinburgh and London. We are officially certified by the Top Employer Institute and been awarded the exclusive Top Employer United Kingdom Certification for the second year running.

Please note, successful applicants to our student placement programme will be engaged via Agile 1, our third-party recruitment partner.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together.

The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

What we look for

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

About MSD

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA is known as “Merck” in the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico. We are known as “MSD” in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & Asia Pacific. We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines and animal health products.

We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop and grow in our careers. We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development.

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