Business Transformation Office Placement

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Business Transformation Office Placement

Our Market Access team monitor population demographics and develop solutions to give patients access to our medicines. We act as both educators and advocates for our products, processes, and practices that help us revolutionize how our medicines create value in society.

About The Role:

The Business Transformation Office is part of the Strategy, Value & Access department. The team mission is to partner with the UK Human Health Leadership Team to define and deliver initiatives that enable the successful attainment of key business priorities.

The role of Student Placement will focus on supporting the scoping and execution of strategic projects to deliver the UK Human Health business priorities. The nature of these projects will vary according to need but all will be expected to drive tangible benefits to our business.

It will be vitally important that the role incumbent is adaptable and confident to work on multiple, diverse projects in parallel. They will need to be comfortable with working on short-term faced-paced projects, as well as longer, slower projects. They must also be understanding that priorities change and so too can the project focus. A critical part of this role will be engaging other employees and, on occasion, external vendors. Listening and communication skills are therefore of paramount importance – be it to engage one-to-one, contribute to group discussions, facilitate discussions and/or present to audiences. As projects sometimes have a direct impact on the day-to-day working of employees it is important that the individual has good awareness of the needs, agendas and behaviours of others and themselves. Finally, the individual must be adept at conducting robust qualitative and quantitative analysis to craft recommendations.

For the right individual, this provides a superb opportunity to learn about the pharmaceutical industry, the challenges faced and changes required to ensure long-term success. It will also provide deep insight into the way projects should be run and techniques to gather insight and develop buy-in from a broad spectrum of people.

Key Objectives

1. To gain experience in organisational transformation, whilst improving your general business acumen skills
2. To network and develop professional relationships throughout the company at all levels

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the planning and delivery of key strategic projects, collaborating with fellow employees and vendors as required
• Develop project plans and monitor their execution on time and to appropriate levels of quality
• Support the planning, execution and follow-up of meetings, ensuring actions are accurately captured, documented and delivered
• Support the communication of project progress and outcomes to all relevant parties

Rewards and Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• A company laptop
• Subsidised gym membership
• Opportunities to travel

Education and Skills:

• Working toward a degree preferably in a business-related discipline
• Specific interest in corporate / organisational strategy

Key Capabilities/Skills

• Adaptable and confident to work on multiple, diverse projects in parallel
• Good awareness of the needs, agendas and behaviours of others (and themselves)
• Adept at conducting robust qualitative and quantitative analysis to craft recommendations
• Ability to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing
• Good organiser and ability lead projects
• Team player, learning from and helping others overcome obstacles
• Confident and willingness to get involved
• Strong sense of urgency, takes initiative to do things without being asked
• Has a can-do attitude: anticipates problems and proposes solutions while approaching work challenges creatively with fresh ideas
• A self-starter who can be relied upon to work autonomously without supervision

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 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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