Internship: Sample Management Intern

Site Name: Italy - Siena

Posted Date: Dec

Posting Title: Internship: Sample Management Intern (Analytical), Italy, 2025

Help us get ahead of disease together with our Sample Management team

Education required: Diploma, BS degree in management/engineering, life science, or a related field – or holding a diploma in relevant disciplines.

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in Italian and English

Expected Start date: March 2026

Internship period: 6 months (+ 6 months in specific cases)

Application deadline: 06/01/2026. We recommend you apply as soon as possible.

Please submit your application with your CV and a COVER LETTER.

We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.

Internship Type: Curricular or Extra-Curricular

Are you looking to gain valuable world work experience and help to positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact You'll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You'll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What will you do?

We are looking for a well-organized and independent individual to join our R&D teams, supporting fundamental processes for the delivery of our new vaccines programs.

The resource will be part of the analytical R&D department with the key objective to improve and manage critical sample flows through the laboratory for testing, key accountabilities include:

• Physically responsible for dislocation of samples and delivery to testing groups.
• Organize and execute samples clearance after testing.
• Organize samples in fridges systematically and ensure seamless communication with relevant platforms.
• Supports periodic fridges management and clearance of samples after approval,
• Interacts with relevant stakeholders for monitoring of shipments from other GSK sites, escalates expected delays and issues.
• Organize and facilitate sample shipments between sites,
• Supports ad hoc simple laboratory tasks such as aliquoting to support batch testing,

What will you learn?

This internship provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in sample management and laboratory operations within a dynamic and collaborative environment, as part of the team you will learn:

• Essential ways of working of an R&D testing lab both in non-GMP and GMP environment,
• Manage your own workload and prioritize accordingly,
• Opportunity to manage your own improvement project,
• Work side by side with scientists working on developing next generation vaccines,

What are we looking for?

• Enthusiastic individual willing to learn in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong organizational skills with attention to details,

• Effective communication skills,

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively,
• Improvement mindset and proven ability to improve processes,
• Fluent English written and spoken,

Let's do this

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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