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Job description
Merck Healthcare published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Darmstadt, Germany.
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Description provided by Merck Healthcare
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
- Archive room management: Monitor emails for deliveries and supervise the pick-up and delivery of study documents with the archiving vendor. This includes lifting of archiving boxes, maintaining the archive room (housekeeping, collecting mail, guide visitors) and reviewing and updating the archive inventory.
- Create, manage, and verify archiving documents. Upload archiving documents to various databases, including the use of our Archi-BOT.
- Assist the Archive Lead with ad hoc requests (e.g., document searches in database, document creation).
- Perform spot-checks in the eTMF Archive System and conduct quality checks on paper documents.
- Scan in-house retention documents, track Chronos project activities, and support hoc scanning tasks.
- Enrolled students only; any field of study is acceptable
- Language knowledge: English and German (B2-C1)
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Working student essentials
What this Operations working student role in Darmstadt means for you — the weekly-hours rules, social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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