Industrial Placement Students

4651353
  • Job type

    Permanent
  • Location

    Cambridge
  • Working Pattern

    Full-time
  • Specialism

    Statistics And Sas
  • Industry

    Pharmaceuticals
  • Pay

    £22,500 per annum initially. Will rise with any change to National Living Wage

Industrial Student Placements - Amgen

2025-2026 Industrial Placements
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

Amgen focusses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Amgen supports access to medicines in low and middle income countries, environmental sustainability, responsible sourcing, ethical research, science education, charity gift matching and volunteering. In the UK, a mental health support and wellbeing programme has won MIND Workplace Wellbeing Gold Award for the second year running.

Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index.

In 2023 Amgen was honoured as a Best Workplace in Europe, an award based on employee’s perception of workplace and organisation’s culture.
We are offering industrial placement roles for:
1 x Clinical Trial Operational Quality role, based in Cambridge, UK
1 x Local Safety Officer and Pharmacovigilance Operations role, based in Cambridge, UK
1 x Clinical Systems Analyst, in Clinical Systems and Analytical Reporting based in Cambridge, UK

Clinical Trial Operational Quality Placement Student - Cambridge
Based in our Cambridge office, with some opportunity to work from home, our Operational Quality Placement Student will rotate through three teams in the group: Clinical Trial Risk Management (CTRM), Inspection Readiness (IR) and Trial Master File Operations (TMF Ops). All three teams work across clinical development phases I-IV and trial designs to ensure the governing ICH GCP clinical trial regulations are met fully.
CTRM focuses on leading, managing and mitigating risks in clinical trials, inspection readiness employs various strategies and tools to maintain a clinical trial in a regulatory health authority inspection prepared state, and TMF Ops owns the strategy, requirements, and system for Amgen clinical trial records.

The successful candidate will gain invaluable experience in clinical trial development, risk management and critical documentation requirements by providing support, engaging, and maintaining collaborative relationships with vendors and customers, both in and outside of Amgen
Local Safety Officer and Pharmacovigilance Placement Student - Cambridge
The Local Safety Officer and Pharmacovigilance Placement Student will be based in our Cambridge office, with some opportunity to work from home.
Drug safety (also known as pharmacovigilance) is the science and activities relating to detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of side effects (known as adverse events) of medicines. This allows an understanding of both the risks as well as the benefits of a medicine.
The local safety officer is responsible for representing patient safety in interactions with Government Authorities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, external healthcare professionals and internal departments to ensure compliant performance of drug safety activities based on legislative requirements.

In this role you will gain experience in:
  • Adverse event data collection, processing and reporting to Government Authorities and Ethics Committees for medicines in clinical trials and on the market.
  • Liaison with healthcare professionals in writing, to collate complete safety and clinical data on adverse event reports.
  • Providing quality and timely responses to internal and external drug safety questions.
  • Providing drug safety advice to internal departments for local activities, to advance the safe use of medicines and support business needs.
  • Participation in local Medical and Commercial meetings to discuss product safety issues.
Clinical Systems Analyst - Cambridge
The Clinical Systems Analyst will be based in our Cambridge office, with some opportunity to work from home. The role sits within the Clinical Systems and Analytical Reporting (CSAR) team. The CSAR team has a dual responsibility for the oversight of a number of critical clinical systems at Amgen for example: electronic Trial Master File (eTMF), Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), etc, plus the development of metrics and analytics of both clinical and operational data which helps support the multiple departments across the business with critical decision making.

A student working in CSAR will gain experience in:
  • The role played by the CSAR team in Amgen’s mission to serve patients
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration to maintain and enhance the Amgen suite of clinical operations systems
  • Understanding how different platforms are connected to form Amgen’s clinical systems ecosystem
  • How analytics support compliance with Amgen processes and much more within and beyond the CSAR team
  • The variety of sub-teams and their functions within CSAR


In all roles, the successful students will gain:
  • Experience of working in a busy global department within the pharmaceutical industry
  • An excellent opportunity to understand the drug development process
  • Industry exposure to working to ICH GCP clinical trial regulations/ local safety regulations for the UK and Ireland and European Union
  • Insight into many departments within Amgen
  • Experience of working in exemplary multi-disciplinary teams

All applicants should have:
  • Excellent exam and course work grades from the first year of your Life Sciences degree (or higher qualification)
  • Good communication and organisational skills
  • A self-motivated, proven professional and proactive approach to work
  • An ability to work in teams and remain flexible to changing priorities
  • A genuine interest in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry and a willingness to learn new areas and skills
  • An awareness of global regulatory requirements and ICH guidelines for conducting clinical research and safety monitoring/reporting (eg, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Good Pharmacovigilance Practices (GVP))
  • Please note, these roles are for Life Sciences Undergraduates only

Working arrangements: Amgen offers a hybrid working model whereby there is the opportunity to work from home and/or work from the Cambridge office. Please note that your manager may also be either on-site or working remotely. We encourage students to work from the office where possible to build connections with colleagues both within their department and from other departments.
We have student placement roles located across our 2 UK offices, both in Cambridge and Uxbridge.

There may be the occasional departmental or student meeting taking place at either office throughout the years placement that may require travel.
Please ensure that you are willing and able to live within commutable distance of the specified company location before applying.

Amgen is a value-based organisation, committed to promoting and maintaining an inclusive, high-performing culture where all team members embrace and leverage each other’s talents and backgrounds. Amgen’s goal is to foster a culture of belonging, where diverse talent is widely represented, and everyone feels welcome.

Closing date for applications: 23/02/2025 at 23:59
Notification of application outcome: 26th – 27th February 2025
Industry introduction and interviews:
4th or 5th March 2025.
Interviews will be held in person at the Cambridge Amgen office and may be preceded by an initial phone call.

Start date: 30th June 2025, for 12 months (with a potential extension).
Salary: £22,500 per annum initially. Will rise in line with any change to National Living Wage

Please note that Hays are managing the recruitment for these placements.

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